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PETER and ANDREW mending their nets.
PETER. / Never was such a marvellous draught of fishes / Heard of in Galilee! The market-places / Both of Bethsaida and Capernaum / Are full of them! Yet we had toiled all night / And taken nothing, when the Master said: / Launch out into the deep, and cast your nets; / And doing this, we caught such multitudes, / Our nets like spiders' webs were snapped asunder, / And with the draught we filled two ships so full / That they began to sink. Then I knelt down / Amazed, and said: O Lord, depart from me, / I am a sinful man. And he made answer: / Simon, fear not; henceforth thou shalt catch men! / What was the meaning of those words?