Where stood the two from Cæsarea.
And should he heed, or should he stay?
Scarce had the vision fled,—
Perchance it might return that day,
Perchance more words be said
By the Lord’s voice?—he rises slow;
Again the knocking; he must go;
Nor guessed, while going down the stair,
That ’twas the Lord who called him there.
Had he sat still upon the roof,