XXIX.
Pisces multiplicati. Joan. xxi. 11.
Quae secreta meant taciti tibi retia verbi,
Queis non tam pisces quam capis Oceanum?
The miraculous draught of fishes.
What nets, hid in Thy silent word,
Passest Thou on;
By which not fish Thou takest, Lord,
But the Ocean? G.
XXX.
Domine, non solum pedes, sed et caput, &c. Joan. xiii. 9.
En caput, atque suis quae plus satis ora laborant
Sordibus; huc fluvios, ais [et] adde tuos.
Nil opus est; namque haec, modo tertius occinat ales,
E fluviis fuerint, Petre, lavanda suis.
Lord, not my feet only, but also my head, &c.
'Behold my head, behold my face,
Which sin's filthiest stains deface:
Here pour Thy streams:' thou say'st to Me.
But, Peter, needs not this for thee;
For ere the cock a third time crow,
Rivers of its own tears must flow. G.