It resolute in him also-God's blood-
in Judas, when he ate the black bread
of his Master, and went apart to pray
after supper, crying, "Lord, before day
let this cup pass from me."
But no more for him than for God's Son
came pardon. Judas wept, and then,
like Jesus, chose what God had willed
for him, that all might be fulfilled
according to prophecy.
Died also Judas, in public pain
for the sins of the whole world, is own
private loss lamenting-a Friend
gone to the cross, while he hanged
himself from a more bitter tree.
Surely Judas then waited, an angel
outside of heaven, while Christ harrowed Hell,
and on Easter hailed the rising of the other
obedient Son, who greeted him, "Brother,
we have done. Go in with me."