The South Transept: The Epistle and Gospel XXII

Christ hath been in the waters, and the whole
Of our baptismal being doth abound
With more of healing than Bethesda's pool,
Stirr'd by the Angel, where there lay around
The impotent, the maim'd, and sickness-bound ;
Emblem of this world's sorrows, 'mid the show
Of portals fair, which over-arch the ground,
And seem to mock her children's varied woe.
Look on us, or we die where healing waters flow !