Or pale-cheeked martyrs smiling to a sword,
Have missed Jehovah at the judgment call,
And Peter, from the height of blasphemy—
'I never knew this man' did quail and fall,
As knowing straight that God,—and turned free
And went out speechless from the face of all,
And filled the silence, weeping bitterly.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
THE MEANING OF THE LOOK.
I think that look of Christ might seem to say—