“For they the mind of Christ discern
Who lean, like John, upon His breast.”
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 399
“O holy trust! O endless sense of rest!
Like the beloved John
To lay his head upon the Saviour's breast,
And thus to journey on!”
"Hymn, For my Brother's Ordination", The Seaside and the Fireside (1850).
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