The surging crowd hid from his eyes the things

He did not care to see, but faint he heard

The hammer strokes, that seemed to drive the nails

Deep in his heart. Then turned he to a man

Who silent stood beside him, and he said:

“A stranger I, from Jaffa, yesternight

I came. This man? What evil hath He done?”

“I know not any wrong that He hath done,”

Came answer fast. “I only know the good

That He had wrought. Behold my eyes that see!