Christ will be crucified to-day.

Christ will hang crowned, and we are here.

Villager, are there beds enough?

Soup and bread and a pot of beer?—

Weary Gentile, Turk and Jew,

Lord and peasant, Christian too.

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Who called His Name? What was it spoke?

Perhaps I dreamed. Then my walls dreamed!

I saw them shaking as I woke;