Impetuous Peter by Delwin Rees Buckner

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jul 22, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 28.

Impetuous Peter

By Delwin Rees Buckner

Bold, hazardous, he leaps headlong into The flood, 'tense to annihilate the space Divorcing him from his divine Friend's face. But, as he reels on writhing dunes of blue Which counterfeit high heaven's azure hue, Faith flees his breast, while Fear usurps her place, Yet vanishing in boggy billow lace, The reckless one recalls his Lord anew. That helping hand, outstretched across the wave, Which snatched rash, sinking Simon from the grave, Well-nigh a victim of the tempest's greed, Is not now lessened in its power to save The creatures it created, when they crave Assistance in their hapless hour of need.