St. Peter is called upon as "the pilot of the Galilean Lake" who shakes his keys "of metals twain."  This poem's narrator asks if it would not be better to play with the tangles of Nearea's hair or sport with Amaryllis in the shade rather than ply his homely trade-- and then rails against unworthy clergy who don't tend their flocks.  It also tells us "to look homeward, and
St. Peter is called upon as "the pilot of the Galilean Lake" who shakes his keys "of metals twain."  This poem's narrator asks if it would not be better to play with the tangles of Nearea's hair or sport with Amaryllis in the shade rather than ply his homely trade-- and then rails against unworthy clergy who don't tend their flocks.  It also tells us "to look homeward, and melt with ruth" and commands dolphins to "waft the helpless youth," from the watery depths.  Introduced as a Monody for a learned friend who drowned "on his passage from Chester on the Irish seas," FTP, identify this elegy written in 1637 for Edward King, a work by John Milton.
St. Peter is called upon as "the pilot of the Galilean Lake" who shakes his keys "of metals twain."  
Lycidas