The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-03-10


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It yielding swung the branch above it creak-
ed
And back returning strucs against my face
human body! Was II dead or not?
Swiftly my sword drew and cut it down,
And on the sand all heavily il dropped.
plucked the robes sway, exposed the face
Twas JUDAS, as feared. cold stif, and dead
That suffering hesrb ofhis had ceased to beat
Thus Lysiss spoke, aud ended. I confess
This story OF poor Judas touched me much.
What horrible reyulsons must have passed
Across that spirit in those few last hours
What storms, thSt tore up life even to its
roots
Say what you will-grant all the guilt--and
still
What pangs OF dread remorse what agonies
OF desperate repentance, all too late,
In that wild interval between tba crime
And its last sad atOBeFnsAt life, the willie,
Laden with horror oil to4 great to bear,
And pressing maaly on 80 death's abyss:
This was DO sOmDon mind that thus could
feel
No vulgar william Stunning for reward
Vas he william LOST to sense Of shGne
Ay, so SPY John and Peter and tho rest
And yet-snd yes thia tale THAI Lysias tells
Weighs with me more the more | ponder it
For thus put it !: Either Judas was.
As John afnrms. william and q thief,
A creature lost to shame and baseat heart
Or else, which 10 tho view that Lyeias takes,
! He was rash aud visionary man
| Whose faith was firm, who had no thought OF
crime,
But whom a terrible mistake drove mad
Take but Johns view and all to me is blind
Call him william who, With greed of gain,
For thirty silver pieces sold his Lord,
Does not the bride seem all too small and
mean!
He held she common purse ,aad were he thief
Had daily pose 10 steal, and lay aside
A secret and Acoumulatihg fund;
30 doisg. he bad nothing rtshed Of fame,
While here he braVe& the seorn of all the
world
Besides, Why ehtse they for their Almoner
a man SO lost to shame, 40 foul with greed !
Or why, from some five score Of trusted men,
Choose him as one apostle among twelve?
Or why, II he were known 10 he 40 vile,
(And who can hide his oasansss ct all times !?
Keep him ia close ommunioA to the last
NAught In his previous life. or acts. or words
Shows this eonsummate william shat, fun
grown,
Leaps all At once to such height OF crime
Again, how comes it that this wretch, whose
heart
Is cssed to shame, filings back the pAltry
| bFibAe
And when he knows his master ia condemned
husAFA IN HOFIOF ouk 10 eSGk MS UCkbn
Whose fingers pointed at aim in he crowd
Did all men nee his presence till he found
Life TO intoisrable? Nay, not 80
Death came TOO close upcn the heels OF crime
He had but done what all his tribe deemed
just !:
The Rabbits, all the Pharisss and Priests
Ay, and the lower mob as we'll who cried,
Give us bArrsbas Christus to she cross ~
These men were all of them on Judas side,
And Judas had done aaughE against the law
Ware he this william he had bur 10 say,
{" followed Chrssus TIL found ~ last
He aimed 81 power to overthrow the State.
I die tbs duty ofaa hensst man.
traitor You are traitors who reprOve "
Besides, such Williams scorn the worlds re
proof. fas
Or might he sAy-"You call this act crime
What crime was it to ssy know this man
/ said no i'll ofhim. II crime here be,
Twas yours who doomed him unto death
not mine"
A william was he? so Barrabbas was?
But did Barrabbas 60 and hang himself?
| Weary Of life--ths murderer and theft?
This c.arsc and vulgar way will never do.
| Grant him william, all his acts must be
Acts of william if you once admit
/ Remorse so bitter that i leads to death
And death so instant on the heels Of crime.
/ You grant spirit sensitive to shame
To counterbalance one bad act but then
A nature such as this though led astray,
When greatly tempted is no thorough wretch
Was the temptation great? Could such &
bride
Tenn pit such nature to a crime like this
| say, TO me il simply seems absurd.
Peter at least was not so sensetive
He cursed and sworr, denying tnat he knew
Who the man Christus was but after all
| q Xnnf--hn hzt1 Ipls Alf
But take the other view that Lyfias takes,
All is ut once consistent, clear complete.
Firm in the faith that ChriStus was Ills God,
The great Messiah sent TO save the world
He. seeking for u sign-not for himself
But to show proof 10 All that he was God
Conceived this pian rash il you Will, bu
grand.
Thinking him man., he said, mere morta
man,
They seek to seize bim-I will make pretenct
To take the public bride aud point HIM out.
And they shall go, all armed with sword.
and slaves,
Strong with the power 0 I law, 70 seize on him
And at their touch he G ID himself, shall sCanC
4 Revealed before them, and their swordi shat
i drop,
4 And PROSTATE all before hun shall adore,
And cry Behold the Lord and King OF all |!
But when the soldiers land their hands on hin
And bound him as they would a prisoner vile
WITH taunts, and mockery, and threats o
death
He all the while submitting-then his dream
Burst into fragments with a crash aghast
The whole world reeled before him; the
dread truth
Swooped like a sea upon aim, bearing down
His thoughts IN Wlld confasion de who
dreamed
To open the gates of glory to his Lord,
Opened in their stead The PRISONS jarrng dool
Aud SAW above him his dim dream Of Love
Change 10 Fury stained with blood and
crime.
And then Il madness seized him, and remorse
wan ptngs of torture drove INN down Il
| death.