Henry Charles Beeching, ed. (1859–1919). Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse. 1903.
By John Keble (1792–1866)The Watch by Night
| THE ARK OF GOD is in the field, | |
| Like clouds around the alien armies sweep; | |
| Each by his spear, beneath his shield, | |
| In cold and dew the anointed warriors sleep. | |
| And can it be thou liest awake, | 5 |
| Sworn watchman, tossing on thy couch of down? | |
| And doth thy recreant heart not ache | |
| To hear the sentries round the leaguered town? | |
| Oh dream no more of quiet life; | |
| Care finds the careless out; more wise to vow | 10 |
| Thine heart entire to Faith’s pure strife; | |
| So peace will come thou know’st not when or how. | |