W. Garrett Horder, comp. The Poets’ Bible: New Testament. 1895.

To our Lord on the Water-made Wine

Richard Crashaw (c. 1613–1649)

JOHN II. 1–11.

THOU water turn’st to wine, fair friend of life;

Thy foe, to crosse the sweet arts of Thy reigne,

Distills from thence the teares of wrath and strife,

And so turnes wine to water back again.