And force may strive for right, but know,

You cannot cut at Caiaphas

But the hired servant bears the blow;

And still the apostle, he who dies

In thought to stem Christ's Passion, falls

Short of his fervour and denies

His Master in the High Priest's halls ...

Forth leaps the sword upon the same

Innocent pretexts—little homes

Childhood and womanhood wronged, the Name