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When Herod would have brought him forth the same night	A
Peter was sleeping Acts xii	B
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Thou thrice denied yet thrice beloved	C
Watch by Thine own forgiven friend	D
In sharpest perils faithful proved	E
Let his soul love Thee to the end	D
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The prayer is heard else why so deep	F
His slumber on the eve of death	G
And wherefore smiles he in his sleep	F
As one who drew celestial breath	G
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He loves and is beloved again	H
Can his soul choose but be at rest	I
Sorrow hath fled away and Pain	J
Dares not invade the guarded nest	I
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He dearly loves and not alone	K
For his winged thoughts are soaring high	L
Where never yet frail heart was known	K
To breathe its vain Affection's sigh	L
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He loves and weeps but more than tears	B
Have sealed Thy welcome and his love	M
One look lives in him and endears	B
Crosses and wrongs where'er he rove	N
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That gracious chiding look Thy call	O
To win him to himself and Thee	P
Sweetening the sorrow of his fall	O
Which else were rued too bitterly	P
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E'en through the veil of sheep it shines	B
The memory of that kindly glance	B
The Angel watching by divines	B
And spares awhile his blissful trance	B
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Or haply to his native lake	Q
His vision wafts him back to talk	R
With JESUS ere His flight He take	Q
As in that solemn evening walk	R
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When to the bosom of His friend	D
The Shepherd He whose name is Good	S
Did His dear lambs and sheep commend	D
Both bought and nourished with His blood	T
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Then laid on him th' inverted tree	P
Which firm embraced with heart and arm	U
Might cast o'er hope and memory	P
O'er life and death its awful charm	U
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With brightening heart he bears it on	V
His passport through this eternal gates	B
To his sweet home so nearly won	W
He seems as by the door he waits	B
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The unexpressive notes to hear	X
Of angel song and angel motion	W
Rising and falling on the ear	X
Like waves in Joy's unbounded ocean	W
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His dream is changed the Tyrant's voice	B
Calls to that last of glorious deeds	B
But as he rises to rejoice	B
Not Herod but an Angel leads	B
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He dreams he sees a lamp flash bright	A
Glancing around his prison room	Y
But 'tis a gleam of heavenly light	A
That fills up all the ample gloom	Y
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The flame that in a few short years	B
Deep through the chambers of the dead	Z
Shall pierce and dry the fount of tears	B
Is waving o'er his dungeon bed	Z
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Touched he upstarts his chains unbind	Z
Through darksome vault up massy stair	A2
His dizzy doubting footsteps wind	Z
To freedom and cool moonlight air	A2
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Then all himself all joy and calm	B2
Though for a while his hand forego	C2
Just as it touched the martyr's palm	B2
He turns him to his task below	C2
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The pastoral staff the keys of Heaven	W
To wield a while in grey haired might	Z
Then from his cross to spring forgiven	W
And follow JESUS out of sight	Z

John Keble

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