Like those who were present there in Troas
I, too, am "not a little comforted" 1
by what was granted
to the young man Eutychus.
For fancy dozing off the way he did!
Then tumbling, sensationally, from an upper room
while Paul—that eloquent mentor of theirs—
was pouring out to them before he left
all that he must have had to give
of counsel and encouragement
for the days ahead.
What a thing to have happen at such a time!
And how dire a warning to be drawn from it:
"Whoever is found
thus failing to attend—"
