I wear another's crown of thorns.

Count me a priest who understands

The glorious pain of nail-pierced hands;

Count me a comrade of the thief

Hot driven into late belief.

Oh, mother's tear, oh, father's sigh,

Oh, mourning sweetheart's last good-bye,

I yet have known no mourning save

Beside some brother's brother's grave.

ROBERT GOULD SHAW