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I've quenched my lamp I struck it in that start	A
Which every limb convulsed I heard it fall	B
The crash blent with my sleep I saw depart	A
Its light even as I woke on yonder wall	B
Over against my bed there shone a gleam	C
Strange faint and mingling also with my dream	C
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It sunk and I am wrapt in utter gloom	D
How far is night advanced and when will day	E
Retinge the dusk and livid air with bloom	D
And fill this void with warm creative ray	E
Would I could sleep again till clear and red	F
Morning shall on the mountain tops be spread	F
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I'd call my women but to break their sleep	G
Because my own is broken were unjust	H
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They've wrought all day and well earned slumbers steep	G
Their labours in forgetfulness I trust	H
Let me my feverish watch with patience bear	I
Thankful that none with me its sufferings share	I
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Yet Oh for light one ray would tranquilise	J
My nerves my pulses more than effort can	K
I'll draw my curtain and consult the skies	J
These trembling stars at dead of night look wan	L
Wild restless strange yet cannot be more drear	I
Than this my couch shared by a nameless fear	I
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All black one great cloud drawn from east to west	M
Conceals the heavens but there are lights below	N
Torches burn in Jerusalem and cast	O
On yonder stony mount a lurid glow	N
I see men stationed there and gleaming spears	J
A sound too from afar invades my ears	J
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Dull measured strokes of axe and hammer ring	P
From street to street not loud but through the night	Q
Distinctly heard and some strange spectral thing	P
Is now upreared and fixed against the light	Q
Of the pale lamps defined upon that sky	R
It stands up like a column straight and high	R
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I see it all I know the dusky sign	S
A cross on Calvary which Jews uprear	I
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While Romans watch and when the dawn shall shine	S
Pilate to judge the victim will appear	I
Pass sentence yield him up to crucify	R
And on that cross the spotless Christ must die	R
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Dreams then are true for thus my vision ran	K
Surely some oracle has been with me	T
The gods have chosen me to reveal their plan	K
To warn an unjust judge of destiny	T
I slumbering heard and saw awake I know	N
Christ's coming death and Pilate's life of woe	N
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I do not weep for Pilate who could prove	U
Regret for him whose cold and crushing sway	E
No prayer can soften no appeal can move	U
Who tramples hearts as others trample clay	E
Yet with a faltering an uncertain tread	F
That might stir up reprisal in the dead	F
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Forced to sit by his side and see his deeds	J
Forced to behold that visage hour by hour	I
In whose gaunt lines the abhorrent gazer reads	J
A triple lust of gold and blood and power	I
A soul whom motives fierce yet abject urge	V
Rome's servile slave and Judah's tyrant scourge	V
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How can I love or mourn or pity him	W
I who so long my fettered hands have wrung	X
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I who for grief have wept my eye sight dim	W
Because while life for me was bright and young	X
He robbed my youth he quenched my life's fair ray	E
He crushed my mind and did my freedom slay	E
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And at this hour although I be his wife	Y
He has no more of tenderness from me	T
Than any other wretch of guilty life	Y
Less for I know his household privacy	T
I see him as he is without a screen	Z
And by the gods my soul abhors his mien	Z
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Has he not sought my presence dyed in blood	A2
Innocent righteous blood shed shamelessly	T
And have I not his red salute withstood	B2
Aye when as erst he plunged all Galilee	T
In dark bereavement in affliction sore	I
Mingling their very offerings with their gore	I
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Then came he in his eyes a serpent smile	C2
Upon his lips some false endearing word	D2
And through the streets of Salem clanged the while	C2
His slaughtering hacking sacrilegious sword	E2
And I to see a man cause men such woe	N
Trembled with ire I did not fear to show	N
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And now the envious Jewish priests have brought	F2
Jesus whom they in mockery call their king	P
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To have by this grim power their vengeance wrought	F2
By this mean reptile innocence to sting	P
Oh could I but the purposed doom avert	G2
And shield the blameless head from cruel hurt	G2
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Accessible is Pilate's heart to fear	I
Omens will shake his soul like autumn leaf	H2
Could he this night's appalling vision hear	I
This just man's bonds were loosed his life were safe	I2
Unless that bitter priesthood should prevail	J2
And make even terror to their malice quail	J2
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Yet if I tell the dream but let me pause	J
What dream Erewhile the characters were clear	I
Graved on my brain at once some unknown cause	J
Has dimmed and rased the thoughts which now appear	I
Like a vague remnant of some by past scene	Z
Not what will be but what long since has been	K2
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I suffered many things I heard foretold	L2
A dreadful doom for Pilate lingering woes	J
In far barbarian climes where mountains cold	L2
Built up a solitude of trackless snows	J
There he and grisly wolves prowled side by side	M2
There he lived famished there methought he died	M2
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But not of hunger nor by malady	T
I saw the snow around him stained with gore	I
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I said I had no tears for such as he	T
And lo my cheek is wet mine eyes run o'er	I
I weep for mortal suffering mortal guilt	N2
I weep the impious deed the blood self spilt	N2
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More I recall not yet the vision spread	F
Into a world remote an age to come	O2
And still the illumined name of Jesus shed	F
A light a clearness through the enfolding gloom	D
And still I saw that sign which now I see	T
That cross on yonder brow of Calvary	T
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What is this Hebrew Christ To me unknown	P2
His lineage doctrine mission yet how clear	I
Is God like goodness in his actions shewn	P2
How straight and stainless is his life's career	I
The ray of Deity that rests on him	W
In my eyes makes Olympian glory dim	W
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The world advances Greek or Roman rite	Q
Suffices not the inquiring mind to stay	E
The searching soul demands a purer light	Q
To guide it on its upward onward way	E
Ashamed of sculptured gods Religion turns	J
To where the unseen Jehovah's altar burns	J
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Our faith is rotten all our rites defiled	Q
Our temples sullied and methinks this man	P2
With his new ordinance so wise and mild	Q
Is come even as he says the chaff to fan	P2
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And sever from the wheat but will his faith	Q2
Survive the terrors of to morrow's death	R2
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I feel a firmer trust a higher hope	S2
Rise in my soul it dawns with dawning day	Q
Lo on the Temple's roof on Moriah's slope	S2
Appears at length that clear and crimson ray	Q
Which I so wished for when shut in by night	Q
Oh opening skies I hail I bless your light	Q
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Part clouds and shadows glorious Sun appear	I
Part mental gloom Come insight from on high	R
Dusk dawn in heaven still strives with daylight clear	I
The longing soul doth still uncertain sigh	R
Oh to behold the truth that sun divine	P2
How doth my bosom pant my spirit pine	P2
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This day time travails with a mighty birth	T2
This day Truth stoops from heaven and visits earth	T2
Ere night descends I shall more surely know	P2
What guide to follow in what path to go	P2
I wait in hope I wait in solemn fear	I
The oracle of God the sole true God to hear	I

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