The Voices of Disciple and High-Priest,
Betrayer, and Denier, and Denied:
Strong prayers at midnight by a streamlet-side,
And broken sayings at a solemn feast;
A sea-like sound: “Barabbas be released!”
A fiercer wave: “Let Him be crucified!”
And now arise new voices blent with these,
In sober chorals, linkéd like the beads
Of some brown chaplet; breathing pieties
Of faithful souls that sifted not the creeds.