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+Title: A Roman Lawyer in Jerusalem
+       First Century
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+Author: W. W. Story
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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A ROMAN LAWYER IN JERUSALEM ***
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+     A Roman Lawyer in Jerusalem
+
+            First Century
+
+                 By
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+             W.W. Story
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+
+A ROMAN LAWYER IN JERUSALEM
+
+
+Marcus, abiding in Jerusalem,
+Greeting to Caius, his best friend in Rome!
+_Salve!_ these presents will he borne to you
+By Lucius, who is wearied with this place,
+Sated with travel, looks upon the East
+As simply hateful--blazing, barren, bleak,
+And longs again to find himself in Rome,
+After the tumult of its streets, its trains
+Of slaves and clients, and its villas cool
+With marble porticoes beside the sea,
+And friends and banquets--more than all, its games--
+This life seems blank and flat. He pants to stand
+In its vast circus all alive with heads
+And quivering arms and floating robes--the air
+Thrilled by the roaring _fremitus_ of men--
+The sunlit awning heaving overhead,
+Swollen and strained against its corded veins
+And flapping out its hem with loud report--
+The wild beasts roaring from the pit below--
+The wilder crowd responding from above
+With one long yell that sends the startled blood
+With thrill and sudden flush into the cheeks--
+A hundred trumpets screaming--the dull thump
+Of horses galloping across the sand--
+The clang of sabbards, the sharp clash of steel--
+Live swords, that whirl a circle of grey fire--
+Brass helmets flashing 'neath their streaming hair--
+A universal tumult--then a hush
+Worse than the tumult--all eyes staining down
+To the arena's pit--all lips set close--
+All muscles strained--and then that sudden yell,
+_Habet!_--That's Rome, says Lucius! so it is!
+That is, 'tis _his_ Rome--'tis not yours and mine.
+
+And yet, great Jupiter here at my side,
+He stands with face aside as if he saw
+The games he thus describes, and says, "That's life!
+Life! life! my friend, and this is simply death!
+Ah! for my Rome!" I jot his very words
+Just as he utters them. I hate these games,
+And Darius knows it, yet he will go on,
+And all against my will he stirs my blood--
+I suspend my letter for a while.
+
+A walk has calmed me--I begin again--
+Letting this last page, since it is written, stand.
+Lucius is going: you will see him soon
+In our great Forum, there with him will walk,
+And hear him rail and rave against the East.
+I stay behind--for these bare silences,
+These hills that in the sunset melt and burn,
+This proud stern people, these dead seas and lakes,
+These sombre cedars, this intense still sky,
+To me, o'erwearied with life's din and strain,
+Are grateful as the solemn blank of night
+After the fierce day's irritant excess;
+Besides, a deep absorbing interest
+Detains me here, fills up my mind, and sways
+My inmost thoughts--has got, as 'twere a gripe
+Upon my very life, as strange as new.
+I scarcely know how well to speak of this,
+Fearing your raillery at best--at worst
+Even your contempt; yet, spite of all, I speak.
+
+First, do not deem me to have lost my head,
+Sunstruck, as that man Paulus was at Rome.
+No, I am sane as ever, and my pulse
+Beats even, with no fever in my blood.
+And yet I half incline to think his words,
+Wild as they were, were not entirely wild.
+Nay, shall I dare avow it? I half tend,
+Here in this place, surrounded by these men--
+Despite the jeering natural at first,
+And then the pressure of my life-long thought
+Trained up against it--to excuse his faith,
+And half admit the Christus he thinks God
+Is, at the least, a most mysterious man.
+Bear with me if I now avow so much:
+When next we meet I will expose my mind,
+But now the subject I must scarcely touch.
+
+How many a time, while sauntering up and down
+The Forum's space, or pausing 'neath the shade
+Of some grand temple, arch, or portico,
+Have we discussed some knotty point of law,
+Some curious case, whose contradicting facts
+Looked Janus-faced to innocence and guilt.
+I see you now arresting me, to note
+With quiet fervor and uplifted hand
+Some subtle view or fact by me o'erlooked,
+And urging me, who always strain my point
+(Being too much, I know, a partisan),
+To pause, and press not to the issue so,
+But more apart, with less impetuous zeal,
+Survey as from an upper floor the facts.
+
+I need you now to rein me in, too quick
+To ride a whim beyond the term of Truth,
+For here a case comes up to which in vain
+I seek a clue: you could clear up my mind,
+But you are absent--so I send these notes.
+
+The case is of one Judas, Simon's son,
+Iscariot called--a Jew--and one of those
+Who followed Christus, held by some a god,
+But deemed by others to have preached and taught
+A superstition vile, of which one point
+Was worship of an ass; but this is false!
+Judas, his follower, all the sect declare,
+Bought by a bribe of thirty silver coins,
+Basely betrayed his master unto death.
+The question is--Did Judas, doing this,
+Act from base motives and commit a crime?
+Or, all things taken carefully in view,
+Can he be justified in what he did?
+
+Here on the spot, surrounded by the men
+Who acted in the drama, I have sought
+To study out this strange and tragic case.
+Many are dead--as Herod, Caiaphas,
+And also Pilate--a most worthy man,
+Under whose rule, but all without his fault,
+And, as I fancy, all against his will,
+Christus was crucified. This I regret:
+His words with me would have the greatest weight;
+But Lysias still is living, an old man,
+The chief of the Centurions, whose report
+Is to be trusted, as he saw and heard,
+Not once, but many a time and oft, this man.
+His look and bearing, Lysias thus describes:
+"Tall, slender, not erect, a little bent;
+Brows arched and dark; a high-ridged lofty head;
+Thin temples, veined and delicate; large eyes,
+Sad, very serious, seeming as it were
+To look beyond you, and whene'er he spoke
+Illumined by an inner lamping light--
+At times, too, gleaming with a strange wild fire
+When taunted by the rabble in the streets;
+A Jewish face, complexion pale but dark;
+Thin, high-art nostrils, quivering constantly;
+Long nose, full lips, hands tapering, full of veins;
+His movements nervous; as he walked he seemed
+Scarcely to heed the persons whom he passed,
+And for the most part gazed upon the ground.
+
+"As for his followers, I knew them all--
+A strange mad set and full of fancies wild--
+John, Peter, James--and Judas best of all--
+All seemed to me good men without offence--
+A little crazed--but who is wholly sane?
+They went about and cured the sick and halt,
+And gave away their money to the poor,
+And all their talk was charity and peace.
+If Christus thought and said he was a god,
+'Twas harmless madness, not deserving death.
+What most aroused the wealthy Rabbis' rage
+Was that he set the poor against the rich,
+And cried that rich men all would go to hell,
+And, worst of all, roundly denounced the priests,
+With all their rich phylacteries and robes--
+Said they were hypocrites who made long prayers,
+And robbed poor widows and devoured their means;
+And were at best but whited sepulchres:
+And this it was that brought him to the Cross.
+
+"Those who went with him and believed in him
+Were mostly dull, uneducated men,
+Simple and honest, dazed by what he did,
+And misconceiving every word he said.
+He led them with him in a spell-bound awe,
+And all his cures they called miraculous.
+They followed him like sheep where'er he went,
+With feelings mixed of wonder, fear and love.
+Yes! I suppose they loved him, though they fled
+Stricken with fear when we arrested him."
+
+"What! all--all fled?" I asked. "Did none remain?"
+"Not one," he said--"all left him to his fate,
+Not one dared own he was a follower--
+Not one gave witness for him of them all.
+Stop! When I say not one of them, I mean
+No one but Judas--Judas whom they call
+The traitor--who betrayed him to his death.
+He rushed into the council-hall and cried,
+''Tis I have sinned--Christus is innocent.'"
+
+And here I come to what of all I've heard
+Most touched me--I for this my letter write.
+Paulus, you know, had only for this man,
+This Judas, words of scorn and bitter hate.
+Mark now the different view that Lysias took,
+When, urged by me, his story thus he told:
+
+"Some say that Judas was a base, vile man
+Who sold his master for the meanest bribe;
+Others again insist he was most right,
+Giving to justice one who merely sought
+To overthrow the Church, subvert the law,
+And on its ruins build himself a throne.
+I, knowing Judas--and none better knew--
+I, caring naught for Christus more than him,
+But hating lies, the simple truth will tell,
+No man can say I ever told a lie--
+I am too old now to begin. Besides,
+The truth is truth, and let the truth be told.
+Judas, I say, alone of all the men
+Who followed Christus thought that he was God.
+Some feared him for his power of miracles;
+Some were attracted by a sort of spell;
+Some followed him to hear his sweet, clear voice
+And gentle speaking, hearing with their ears,
+And knowing not the sense of what he said--
+But one alone believed he was the Lord,
+The true Messiah of the Jews. That one
+Was Judas--he alone of all the crowd.
+
+"He to betray his master for a bribe!
+He last of all. I say this friend of mine
+Was brave when all the rest were cowards there.
+His was a noble nature: frank and bold,
+Almost to rashness bold, yet sensitive,
+Who took his dreams for firm realities--
+Who once believing, all in all believed--
+Rushing at obstacles and scorning risk,
+Ready to venture all to gain his end,
+No compromise or subterfuge for him,
+His act went from his thought straight to the butt;
+Yet with this ardent and impatient mood
+Was joined a visionary mind that took
+Impressions quick and fine, yet deep as life.
+Therefore it was that in this subtle soil
+The master's words took root and grew and flowered.
+He heard and followed and obeyed; his faith
+was serious, earnest, real--winged to fly;
+He doubted not, like some who walked with him--
+Desired no first place, as did James and John--
+Denied him not with Peter: not to him
+His master said, 'Away! thou'rt an offence;
+Get thee behind me, Satan!'--not to him,
+'Am I so long with ye who know me not?'
+Fixed as a rock, untempted by desires
+To gain the post of honor when his Lord
+Should come to rule--chosen from out the midst
+Of six-score men as his apostle--then
+Again selected to the place of trust,
+Unselfish, honest, he among them walked.
+
+"That he was honest, and was so esteemed,
+Is plain from this--they chose him out of all
+To bear the common purse, and take and pay.
+John says he was a thief, because he grudged
+The price that for some ointment once was paid,
+And urged 'twere better given to the poor.
+But did not Christus ever for the poor
+Lift up his voice--'Give all things to the poor!
+Sell everything and give all to the poor!'
+And Judas, who believed, not made believe,
+Used his own words, and Christus, who excused
+The gift because of love, rebuked him not.
+Thief! ay, he 'twas, this very thief, they chose
+To bear the purse and give alms to the poor.
+I, for my part, see nothing wrong in this."
+
+"But why, if Judas was a man like this,
+Frank, noble, honest"--here I interposed--
+"Why was it that he thus betrayed his Lord?"
+
+"This question oft did I revolve," said he,
+"When all the facts were fresh, and oft revolved
+In latter days, and with no change of mind;
+And this is my solution of the case:
+
+"Daily he heard his master's voice proclaim,
+'I am the Lord! the Father lives in me!
+Who knoweth me knows the eternal God!
+He who believes in me shall never die!
+No! he shall see me with my angels come
+With power and glory here upon the earth
+To judge the quick and dead! Among you here
+Some shall not taste of death before I come
+God's kingdom to establish on the earth!'
+
+"What meant these words? They seethed in Judas' soul.
+Here is my God--Messias, King of kings,
+Christus, the Lord--the Saviour of us all.
+How long shall he be taunted and reviled,
+And threatened by this crawling scum of men?
+Oh, who shall urge the coming of that day
+When he in majesty shall clothe himself
+And stand before the astounded world its King?'
+Long brooding over this inflamed his soul,
+And, ever rash in schemes as wild in thought,
+At last he said, 'No longer will I bear
+This ignominy heaped upon my Lord.
+No man hath power to harm the Almighty One.
+Ay, let men's hands be lifted, then at once,
+Effulgent like the sun, swift like the sword,
+The jagged lightning flashes from the cloud,
+Shall he be manifest--the living God--
+And prostrate all shall on the earth adore!'
+
+"Such was his thought when at the passover
+The Lord with his disciples met and supped:
+And Christus saw the trouble in his mind,
+And said 'Behold, among you here is one
+That shall betray me--he to whom I give
+This sop,' and he the sop to Judas gave;
+And added--'That thou doest, quickly do;'
+And Judas left him, hearing these last words--
+'Now shall the Son of man be glorified.'
+
+"Ah yes! his master had divined his thought--
+His master should be glorified through him.
+
+"Straight unto me and the high priests he came,
+Filled with this hope, and said, 'Behold me here,
+Judas, a follower of Christus! Come!
+I will point out my master whom you seek!'
+And out at once they sent me with my band;
+And as we went, I said, rebuking him,
+'How, Judas, is it you who thus betray
+The Lord and master whom you love, to death?'
+And, smiling, then he answered, 'Fear you not
+Do you your duty; take no heed of me.'
+'Is not this vile?' I said; 'I had not deemed
+Such baseness in you.' 'Though it seems so now,'
+Still smiling he replied, 'wait till the end.'
+Then turning round as to himself he said,
+'Now comes the hour that I have prayed to see--
+The hour of joy to all who know the truth.'
+
+"'Is this man mad?' I thought, and looked at him;
+And, in the darkness creeping swiftly on,
+His face was glowing, almost shone with light;
+And rapt as if in visionary thought
+He walked beside me, gazing at the sky.
+
+"Passing at last beyond the Cedron brook
+We reached a garden on whose open gate
+Dark vines were loosely swinging. Here we paused
+And lifted up our torches, and beheld
+Against the blank white wall a shadowy group,
+There waiting motionless, without a word;
+A moment, and with rapid, nervous step
+Judas alone advanced, and, as he reached
+The tallest figure lifted quick his head;
+And crying, 'Master! Master!' kissed his cheek.
+We, knowing it was Christus, forward pressed.
+Malchus was at my side, when suddenly
+A sword flashed out from one among them there,
+And sheared his ear. At once our swords flashed out,
+But Christus, lifting up his hand, said, 'Peace,
+Sheathe thy sword, Peter--I must drink the cup.'
+And I cried also, 'Peace, and sheathe your swords,'
+Then on his arm I placed my hand, and said,
+'In the law's name.' He nothing said, but reached
+His arm out, and we bound his hands with cords.
+This done I turned, but all the rest had fled,
+And he alone was left to meet his fate.
+
+"My men I ordered then to take and bear
+Their prisoner to the city; and at once
+They moved away, I, seeing not our guide,
+Cried, 'Judas!' but no answer: then a groan
+So sad and deep it startled me. I turned,
+And there against the wall, with ghastly face,
+And eyeballs starting in a frenzied glare,
+As in a fit, lay Judas; his weak arms
+Hung lifeless down, his mouth half open twitched,
+His hands were clutched and clinched into his robes,
+And now and then his breast heaved with a gasp.
+Frightened I dashed some water in his face,
+Spoke to him, lifted him, and rubbed his hands.
+At last the sense came back into his eyes,
+Then with a sudden spasm fled again,
+And to the ground he dropped. I searched him o'er,
+Fearing some mortal wound, yet none I found.
+Then with a gasp again the life returned,
+And stayed, but still with strong convulsion twitched.
+'Speak, Judas! Speak!' I cried. What does this mean?
+No answer! 'Speak, man!' Then at last he groaned.
+'Go, leave me, leave me, Lysias. Oh, my God!
+What have I done? Oh, Christus! Master, Lord.
+Forgive me, oh, forgive me!' Then a cry
+Of agony that pierced me to the heart,
+As groveling on the ground he turned away
+And hid his face, and shuddered in his robes.
+Was this the man whose face an hour ago
+Shone with a joy so strange? What means it all?
+Is this a sudden madness? 'Speak!' I cried.
+'What means this, Judas? Be a man and speak?'
+Yet there he lay, and neither moved nor spoke.
+I thought that he had fainted, till at last,
+Sudden he turned, grasped my arm, and cried,
+'Say, Lysias, is this true, or am I mad?'
+'What true?' I said. 'True that you seized the Lord!
+You could not seize him--he is God the Lord!
+I thought I saw you seize him. Yet I know
+That was impossible, for he is God!
+And yet you live--you live. He spared you, then.
+Where am I? what has happened? A black cloud
+Came o'er me when you laid your hands on him.
+Where are they all? Where is he? Lysias, speak?'
+
+"'Judas,' I said, 'what folly is all this?
+Christus my men have bound and borne away!
+The rest have fled. Rouse now and come with me;
+My men await me, rouse yourself and come!'
+
+"Throwing his arms up, in a fit he fell,
+With a loud shriek that pierced the silent night.
+I could not stay, but, calling instant aid,
+We bore him quick to the adjacent house.
+And placing him in kindly charge, I left,
+Joining my men who stayed for me below.
+
+"Straight to the high priest's house we hurried on,
+And Christus in an inner room we placed,
+Set at his door a guard, and then came out.
+After a time there crept into the hall
+Where round the blazing coals we sat, a man,
+Who in the corner crouched. 'What man are you?'
+Cried some one; and I turning, looked at him.
+'Twas Peter. ''Tis a fellow of that band
+That followed Christus, and believed in him.'
+''Tis false!' cried Peter; and he cursed and swore.
+'I know him not--I never saw the man.'
+But I said nothing. Soon he went away.
+
+"That night I saw not Judas. The next day,
+Ghastly, clay-white, a shadow of a man,
+With robes all soiled and torn, and tangled beard,
+Into the chamber where the council sat
+Came feebly staggering: scarce should I have known
+'Twas Judas, with that haggard, blasted face:
+So had that night's great horror altered him.
+As one all blindly walking in a dream
+He to the table came--against it leaned--
+Glared wildly round a while; then, stretching forth,
+from his torn robes, a trembling hand, flung down,
+As if a snake had stung him, a small purse,
+That broke and scattered its white coins about,
+And, with a shrill voice, cried, 'Take back the purse
+'Twas not for that foul dross I did the deed--
+'Twas not for that--oh, horror! not for that!
+But that I did believe he was the Lord;
+And that he is the Lord I still believe.
+But oh, the sin!--the sin! I have betrayed
+The innocent blood, and I am lost!--am lost!'
+So crying, round his face his robes he threw,
+And blindly rushed away; and we, aghast,
+Looked round--and no one for a moment spoke.
+
+"Seeing that face, I could but fear the end;
+For death was in it, looking through his eyes.
+Nor could I follow to arrest the fate
+That drove him madly on with scorpion whip.
+
+"At last the duty of the day was done,
+And night came on. Forth from the gates I went,
+Anxious and pained by many a dubious thought,
+To seek for Judas, and to comfort him.
+The sky was dark with heavy lowering clouds;
+A lifeless, stifling air weighed on the world;
+A dreadful silence like a nightmare lay
+Crouched on its bosom, waiting, grim and grey.
+In horrible suspense of some dread thing.
+A creeping sense of death, a sickening smell,
+Infected the dull breathing of the wind.
+A thrill of ghosts went by me now and then,
+And made my flesh creep as I wandered on.
+At last I came to where a cedar stretched
+Its black arms out beneath a dusky rock,
+And, passing through its shadow, all at once
+I started; for against the dubious light
+A dark and heavy mass that to and fro
+Slung slowly with its weight, before me grew.
+A sick dread sense came over me; I stopped--
+I could not stir. A cold and clammy sweat
+Oozed out all over me; and all my limbs,
+Bending with tremulous weakness like a child's,
+Gave way beneath me. Then a sense of shame
+Aroused me. I advanced, stretched forth my hand
+And pushed the shapeless mass; and at my touch
+It yielding swung--the branch above it creaked--
+And back returning struck against my face.
+A human body! Was it dead or not?
+Swiftly my sword I drew and cut it down,
+And on the sand all heavily it dropped.
+I plucked the robes away, exposed the face--
+'Twas Judas, as I feared, cold, stiff, and dead;
+That suffering heart of his had ceased to beat."
+
+Thus Lysias spoke, and ended. I confess
+This story of poor Judas touched me much.
+What horrible revulsions must have passed
+Across that spirit in those few last hours!
+What storms, that tore up life even to its roots!
+Say what you will--grant all the guilt--and still
+What pangs of dread remorse--what agonies
+Of desperate repentance, all too late,
+In that wild interval between the crime
+And its last sad atonement!--life, the while,
+Laden with horror all too great to bear,
+And pressing madly on to death's abyss;
+This was no common mind that thus could feel--
+No vulgar villain sinning for reward!
+
+_Was_ he a villain lost to sense of shame?
+Ay, so say John and Peter and the rest;
+And yet--and yet this tale that Lysias tells
+Weighs with me more the more I ponder it;
+For thus I put it: Either Judas was,
+As John affirms, a villain and a thief,
+A creature lost to shame and base at heart--
+Or else, which is the view that Lysias takes,
+He was a rash and visionary man
+Whose faith was firm, who had no thought of crime,
+But whom a terrible mistake drove mad.
+Take but John's view, and all to me is blind.
+Call him a villain who, with greed of gain,
+For thirty silver pieces sold his Lord.
+Does not the bribe seem all too small and mean?
+He held the common purse, and, were he thief,
+Had daily power to steal, and lay aside
+A secret and accumulating fund;
+So doing, he had nothing risked of fame,
+While here he braved the scorn of all the world.
+Besides, why chose they for their almoner
+A man so lost to shame, so foul with greed?
+Or why, from some five-score of trusted men,
+Choose him as one apostle among twelve?
+Or why, if he were known to be so vile,
+(And who can hide his baseness at all times?)
+Keep him in close communion to the last?
+Naught in his previous life, or acts, or words,
+Shows this consummate villain that, full-grown,
+Leaps all at once to such a height of crime.
+
+Again, how comes it that this wretch, whose heart
+Is eased to shame, flings back the paltry bribe?
+And, when he knows his master is condemned,
+Rushes in horror out to seek his death?
+Whose fingers pointed at him in the crowd?
+Did all men flee his presence till he found
+Life too intolerable? Nay; not so!
+Death came too close upon the heels of crime,
+He had but done what all his tribe deemed just:
+All the great mass--I mean the upper class--
+The Rabbis, all the Pharisees and Priests
+Ay, and the lower mob as well who cried,
+"Give us Barabbas! Christus to the cross!"
+These men were all of them on Judas's side,
+And Judas had done naught against the law.
+Were he this villain, he had but to say,
+"I followed Christus till I found at last
+He aimed at power to overthrow the State.
+I did the duty of an honest man.
+I traitor! you are traitors who reprove."
+Besides, such villains scorn the world's reproof.
+
+Or he might say--"You call this act a crime?
+What crime was it to say I know this man?
+I said no ill of him. If crime there be,
+'Twas yours who doomed him unto death, not mine."
+A villain was he? So Barabbas was!
+But did Barabbas go and hang himself,
+Weary of life--the murderer and thief?
+This coarse and vulgar way will never do.
+Grant him a villain, all his, acts must be
+Acts of a villain; if you once admit
+Remorse so bitter that it leads to death,
+And death so instant on the heels of crime,
+You grant a spirit sensitive to shame,
+So sensitive that life can yield no joys
+To counterbalance one bad act;--but then
+A nature such as this, though led astray,
+When greatly tempted, is no thorough wretch.
+Was the temptation great? could such a bribe
+Tempt such a nature to a crime like this?
+I say, to me it simply seems absurd.
+Peter at least was not so sensitive.
+He cursed and swore, denying that he knew
+Who the man Christus was; but after all
+He only wept--he never hanged himself.
+
+But take the other view that Lysias takes,
+All is at once consistent, clear, complete.
+Firm in the faith that Christus was his God
+The great Messiah sent to save the world,
+He, seeking for a sign--not for himself,
+But to show proof to all that he was God
+Conceived this plan, rash if you will, but grand.
+"Thinking him man," he said, "mere mortal man,
+They seek to seize him--I will make pretence
+To take the public bribe and point him out,
+And they shall go, all armed with swords and staves,
+Strong with the power of law, to seize on him--
+And at their touch he, God himself, shall stand
+Revealed before them, and their swords drop,
+And prostrate all before him shall adore,
+And cry, 'Behold the Lord and King of all!'"
+But when the soldiers laid their hands on him
+And bound him as they would a prisoner vile,
+With taunts, and mockery, and threats of death--
+He all the while submitting--then his dream
+Burst into fragments with a crash: aghast
+The whole world reeled before him; the dread truth
+Swooped like a sea upon him, bearing down
+His thoughts in wild confusion. He who dreamed
+To open the gates of glory to his Lord,
+Opened in their stead the prison's jarring door,
+And saw above him his dim dream of Love
+Change to a Fury stained with blood and crime.
+And then a madness seized him, and remorse
+With pangs of torture drove him down to death.
+
+Conceive with me that sad and suffering heart
+If this be true that Lysias says--Conceive!
+Alas! Orestes, not so sad thy fate,
+For the Apollo pardoned, purified--
+Thy Furies were appeased, thy peace returned,
+But Judas perished tortured unto death,
+Unpardoned, unappeased, unpurified.
+And long as Christus shall be known of men
+His name shall bear the brand of infamy,
+The curse of generations still unborn.
+
+Thus much of him: I leave the question here,
+Touching on naught beyond, for Lucius waits--
+I hear him fuming in the court below,
+Cursing his servants and Jerusalem,
+And giving them to the infernal gods.
+The sun is sinking--all the sky's afire--
+And vale and mountain glow like molten ore
+In the intense full splendor of its rays.
+A half-hour hence all will be dull and grey;
+And Lucius only waits until the shade
+Sweeps down the plain then mounts and makes his way
+On through the blinding desert to the sea,
+And thence his galley bears him on to Rome.
+
+_Salve et vale!_--may good fortune wait
+On you and all your household! Greet for me
+Titus and Livia--in a word, all friends.
+
+
+
+
+
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