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THE   WANDERING   JEW 


RECENT  WORKS   BY   MR.  BUCHANAN. 

New  Edition,  small  8vo.,  61.  with  Frontispiece  afid  Vignette. 

THE    CITY    OF    DREAM  : 

A    NEW    PILGRIMAGE. 

Mr.  W.  E.  H.  LECKY,  ihe  historian,  replying  for  Literature  at  the  Royal 
Academy  Banquet,  1888,  said  :  '  We  have  still  great  Painters  among  us. 
The  illustrious  historian  of  the  Crimean  War  (Kinglake)  has  completed  his 
noble  historic  gallery.  .  .  And  if  it  be  said  that  this  great  master  of  pic-  , 
turesque  English  was  reared  in  the  traditions  of  a  more  artistic  age,  I  would 
venture  to  point  to  a  Poem  which  has  been  but  a  few  weeks  in  the  world, 
but  which  is  destined,  or  I  am  much  mistaken,  to  take  a  prominent  place  in 
the  literature  of  our  time — a  Poem  which,  among  other  beauties,  contains 
pictures  of  the  old  Greek  mythology,  worthy  to  compare  even  with  those 
with  which  you,  Mr.  President,  have  so  often  delighted  us.  I  refer  to  the 
"City  of  Dream,"  by  Robert  Buchanan.  While  such  works  are  produced 
in  England,  it  cannot,  I  think,  be  said  that  the  artistic  spirit  in  English 
literature  has  very  seriously  decayed.' 

Small  demy,  8s.,  wit  A  numerous  Illustrations. 

THE    OUTCAST  : 

A    RHYME    FOR    THE    TIME. 

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THE   WANDERING   JEW 


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ROBERT     BUCHANAN 


'Quo  diversus  abis?' 

The  oldest  man  he  seemed  that  ever  wore  gray  hairs  !  ' 

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TO    MY    DEAR    FATHER 

ROBERT    BUCHANAN 

POET     AND     SOCIAL     MISSIONARY 

THIS    CHRISTMAS   GIFT 

Christmas  1S92 


Father  on  Earth,  for  whom  I  wept  bercaven, 
Father  more  dear  than  any  Father  in  Heaven, 
Flesh  of  my  flesh,  heart  of  this  heart  of  mine, 
Still  quick,  though  dead,  in  me,  true  son  of  thine, 
I  draw  the  gravecloth  from  thy  dear  dead  face, 
I  kiss  thee  gently  sleeping,  while  I  place 
This  wreath  of  Song  upon  thy  holy  head. 

For  since  I  live,  I  know  thou  art  quick  not  dead, 
And  since  thou  art  quick,  yet  drawest  no  living  breath, 
I  knoic,  dear  Father,  that  there  is  Life  in  Death. 

This,  too,  my  Soul  hath  found — that  if  there  were 
No  hope  in  Heaven,  the  world  ?night  well  despair, 
That  thro'  the  mystei-y  of  my  hope  and  love 


THE    WANDERING  JEW 

I  reach  the  Mystery  that  dwells  above  .  .   . 
Father  on  Earth,  still  lying  calm  and  blest 
After  long  years  of  trouble  and  sad  unrest, 
Sleep, — while  the  Christ  I  paint  for  men  to  see 
Seeketh  the  Fatherhood  I  found  in  thee  ! 


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THE    WANDERING  JEW 

I  reach  the  Mystery  that  dwells  above  .  .  . 
Father  on  Earth,  still  lying  calm  and  blest 
After  long  years  of  trouble  and  sad  unrest, 
Sleep, — while  the  Christ  I  paint  for  men  to  see 
Sceketh  the  Fatherhood  I  found  in  thee  ! 


COME,  Faith,  with  eyes  of  patient  heavenward  gaze  ! 

Come,  Hope,  with  feet  that  bleed  from  thorny  ways ! 

With  hand  for  each,  leading  those  twain  to  me, 

Come  with  thy  gifts  of  grace,  fair  Charity  ! 

Bring  Music  too,  whose  voices  trouble  so 

Our  very  footfalls  as  we  graveward  go, 

Whose  bright  eyes,  as  she  sings  to  Humankind, 

Shine  with  the  glory  of  God  which  keeps  them  blind  ! 

Not  to  Parnassus,  nor  the  Fabled  Fount, 

Nor  to  the  folds  of  that  Diviner  Mount 

Whereon  our  Milton  kneeling  prayed  so  deep, — 

But  hither,  to  this  City  stretched  asleep 

In  silence,  to  this  City  of  souls  bereaven, 

I  call  you,  last  hierophants  of  Heaven  ! 

Come,  Muses  of  the  bleeding  heart  of  Man, 

Fairer  than  all  the  Nine  Parnassian, 


4  THE    WANDERING  JEW 

Fairer  and  clad  in  grace  more  heavenly 

Than  those  sweet  visions  of  Man's  infancy, 

Come  from  your  lonely  heights  with  song  and  prayer 

To  inspire  an  epos  of  the  World's  despair ! 

For  lo,  to  that  White  Light  which  floweth  from  Him 

Before  whose  gaze  all  sense  and  sight  grow  dim, 

Holpen  by  you,  his  Angels  pure  and  strong, 

With  tears  I  raise  this  tremulous  Prism  of  Song ! 

0  shine  thereon,  White  Light,  and  melted  be 

Into  the  hues  that  lose  themselves  in  Thee, 

And  tho'  they  are  broken  and  but  faintly  show 

Hints  of  the  ray  no  sight  may  see  or  know, 

On  the  poor  Song  let  some  dim  gleam  remain 

To  prove  that  Light  Divine  is  never  sought  in  vain ! 


THE    WANDERING  JEW 


As  in  the  City's  streets  I.wander'd  late, 

Bitter  with  God  because  my  wrongs  seem'd  great, 

Chiller  at  heart  than  the  bleak  winds  that  blew 

Under  the  star-strewn  voids  of  steel-bright  blue, 

Sick  at  the  silence  of  the  Snow,  and  dead 

To  the  white  Earth  beneath  and  Heaven  o'erhead, 

I  heard  a  voice  sound  feebly  at  my  side 

In  hollow  human  accents,  and  it  cried 

'  For  God's  sake,  mortal,  let  me  lean  on  thee !  ' 

And  as  I  turn'd  in  mute  amaze  to  see 

Who  spake,  there  flew  a  whirlwind  overhead 

In  which  the  lights  of  Heaven  were  darkened, 

Shut  out  from  sight  or  flickering  sick  and  low 

Like  street-lamps  when  a  sudden  blast  doth  blow ; 

But  I  could  hear  a  rustling  robe  wind-swept 


THE    WANDERING  JEW 

And  a  faint  breathing ;  then  a  thin  hand  crept 
Into  mine  own,  clammy  and  cold  as  clay ! 

'Twas  on  that  Night  which  ushereth  in  Christ's  Day. 

The  winds  had  winnowed  the  drifts  of  cloud, 

But  the  white  fall  had  ceased.    There,  pale  and  proud, 

In  streets  of  stone  empty  of  life,  while  Sleep 

In  silvern  mist  hung  beautiful  and  deep 

Over  the  silent  City  even  as  breath, 

I  mused  on  God  and  Man,  on  Life  and  Death, 

And  mine  own  woe  was  as  a  glass  wherein 

I  mirror'd  God's  injustice  and  Man's  sin. 

And  so,  remembering  the  time,  I  sneer'd 

To  think  the  mockery  of  Christ's  birth-tide  near'd, 

And  pitying  thought  of  all  the  blinded  herd 

Who  eat  the  dust  and  ashes  of  the  Word, 

Holding  for  all  their  light  and  all  their  good 

The  Woeful  Man  upon  the  Cross  of  wood  ; 

And  bitterly  to  mine  own  heart  I  said, 

'  In  vain,  in  vain,  upon  that  Cross  he  bled  ! 


THE    WANDERING  JEW 

In  vain  he  swore  to  vanquish  Death,  in  vain 
He  spake  of  that  glad  Eealm  where  he  should  reign  ! 
Lo,  all  his  promise  is  a  foolish  thing, 
Flowers  gathered  by  a  child  and  withering 
In  the  moist  hand  that  holdeth  them  ;  for  lo  ! 
Winter  hath  come,  and  on  his  grave  the  snow 
Lies  mountain-deep  ;  and  where  he  sleeping  lies 
We  too  shall  follow  soon  and  close  our  eyes 
Unvex'd  by  dreams.     The  golden  Dream  is  o'er, 
And  he  whom  Death  hath  conquer'd  wakes  no  more  ! 

Even  then  I  heard  the  desolate  voice  intone, 
And  the  thin  hand  crept  trembling  in  my  own, 
And  while  my  heart  shut  sharp  in  sudden  dread 
Against  the  rushing  blood,  I  murmured 
'  Who  speaks  ?  who  speaks  ?  '     Suddenly  in  the  sky 
The  Moon,  a  luminous  white  Moth,  flew  by, 
And  from  her  wings  silent  and  mystical 
Thick  rays  of  vitreous  dust  began  to  fall, 
Illuming  Earth  and  Heaven  ;  when  I  was  'ware 


8  THE    WANDERING  JEW 

Of  One  with  reverend  silver  beard  and  hair 
Snow-white  and  sorrowful,  looming  suddenly 
In  the  new  light  like  to  a  leafless  Tree 
Hung  round  with  ice  and  magnified  by  mist 
Against  a  frosty  Heaven  !     But  ere  I  wist 
Darkness  return'd,  the  splendour  died  away, 
And  all  I  felt  was  that  thin  hand  which  lay 
Fluttering  in  mine  ! 

Then  suddenly  again 

I  heard  the  tremulous  voice  cry  out  in  pain 
'  For  God's  sake,  mortal,  let  me  lean  on  thee  !  ' 
And  peering  thro'  the  dimness  I  could  see 
Snows  of  white  hair  blowing  feebly  in  the  wind ; 
And  deeply  was  I  troubled  in  my  mind 
To  see  so  ancient  and  so  weak  a  Wight 
At  the  cold  mercy  of  the  storm  that  night, 
And  said,  while  'neath  his  wintry  load  he  bent, 
'  Lean  on  me,  father  ! '  adding,  as  he  leant 
Feebly  upon  me,  wearied  out  with  woe, 
'  Whence  dost  thou  come  ?  and  whither  dost  thou  go  ?  ' 


THE    WANDERING  JEW  < 

0  then,  meseem'd,  the  womb  of  Heaven  afar 
Quickened  to  sudden  life,  and  moon  and  star 
Flash'd  like  the  opening  of  a  million  eyes, 
Dimming  from  every  labyrinth  of  the  skies 
Their  lustre  on  that  Lonely  Man ;  and  he 
Loom'd  like  a  comer  from  a  far  Countrie 
In  ragged  antique  raiment,  and  around 
His  waist  a  rotting  rope  was  loosely  bound, 
And  in  one  feeble  hand  a  lanthorn  quaint 
Hung  lax  and  trembling,  and  the  light  was  faint 
Within  it  unto  dying,  tho'  it  threw 
Upon  the  snows  beneath  him  light  enew 
To  show  his  feeble  feet  were  bloody  and  bare  ! 

Thereon,  with  deep-drawn  breath  and  dull  dumb  stare, 
'  Far  have  I  travelled  and  the  night  is  cold,' 
He  murmur'd,  adding  feebly,  '  I  am  old  ! ' 
He  spake  like  one  whose  wits  are  wandering, 
And  strange  his  accents  were,  and  seem'd  to  bring 
The  sense  of  some  strange  region  far  away ; 


i  THE    WANDERING  JEW 

And  like  a  caged  Lion  gaunt  and  grey 

Who,  looking  thro'  the  bars,  all  woe-begone, 

Beholdeth  not  the  men  he  looketh  on, 

But  gazeth  thro'  them  on  some  lonely  pool 

Far  in  the  desert,  whither  he  crept  to  cool 

His  sunburnt  loins  and  drink  when  strong  and  free, 

Ev'n  so  with  dull  dumb  stare  he  gazed  thro'  me 

On  some  far  bourne  ;  and  tho'  his  eyes  were  bright 

They  seem'd  to  suffer  from  the  piteous  light 

They  shed  upon  me  thro'  his  hoary  hair ! 

Then  was  I  seized  with  wonder  unaware 
To  see  a  man  so  old  and  strangely  dight 
Wandering  alone  beneath  the  Heavens  that  night ; 
For  round  us  were  the  silenced  haunts  of  trade, 
The  public  marts  and  buildings  deep  in  shade, 
All  emptied  of  their  living  waters ;  cold 
And  swift  the  stars  did  plunge  thro'  fold  on  fold 
Of  vaporous  gauze,  wind-driven  ;  and  the  street 
Was  washen  everywhere  around  my  feet 


THE    WANDERING  JEW  n 

With  smoky  silver ;  and  the  stillness  round 

Was  dreadfuller  by  memory  of  the  sound 

Which  fill'd  the  place  all  day  from  dawn  to  dark  ; 

And  strange  it  was  and  pitiful  to  mark 

The  heavy  snow  of  years  upon  this  Man, 

His  furrow'd  cheeks  down  which  the  rheum-drops  ran, 

His  wintry  eyes  that  saw  some  summer  land 

Far  off  and  very  peaceful,  while  his  hand 

Dank  as  the  drowned  dead's  lay  loose  in  mine. 

But,  my  fear  lessening,  eager  to  divine 
What  man  he  was,  and  thro'  what  cruel  fate 
He  wander'd  homeless  and  disconsolate, 
Scourged  by  the  pitiless  God  who  hateth  men, 
A  victim,  the  more  piteous  in  his  pain 
Because  that  God  had  given  him  length  of  days, 
I  cried,  '  Who  art  thou  ?     From  what  weary  ways 
Comest  thou,  father  ?    Thou  art  frail  and  old ! 
Sad  is  thy  lot  upon  a  night  so  cold 
To  wander  barefoot  in  a  world  of  snow  ! 


12  THE    WANDERING  JEW 

Speak  to  me,  father  !  for  I  fain  would  know 
What  cruel  Hand  is  on  thee  out  of  Heaven, 
That  by  the  wintry  tempests  thou  art  driven 
Hither  and  thither  ?     Speak  thy  grief  out  strong, 
For  God,  I  know,  is  hard,  and  I,  too,  have  my  wrong 

Then  as  I  looked  full  eagerly  on  him, 

And  my  limbs  trembled,  and  mine  eyes  grew  dim, 

With  dull  still  gaze  he  stared  on  thro'  me 

At  that  far  bourne  of  rest  his  Soul  could  see, 

And  shiver'd  as  the  frost  took  blood  and  bone, 

And  even  as  a  feeble  child  might  moan 

He  murmured,  '  I  am  hungry  and  athirst ! ' 

0  then  my  soul  was  sicken' d,  and  I  curst 

The  winds  and  snows  that  smote  this  Man  so  old, 

And  drave  him  outcast  thro'  the  wintry  wold, 

And  made  the  belly  of  him  tight  with  pain 

For  lack  of  food,  and  only  with  the  rain 

Moisten'd  his  toothless  gums  !  and  'neath  my  breath 


THE    WANDERING  JEW  13 

I  curst  the  pitiless  Lord  of  Life  and  Death, 

And  '  all  the  hate  I  bare  for  Him  who  wrought 

This  crumbling  prison-house  of  flesh  (methought) 

Is  vindicated  by  this  Wight  who  bears 

The  rueful  justification  of  grey  hairs  ! ' 

And  as  I  held  his  clay-cold  hand,  nor  spake, 

For  I  was  hoarse  with  sorrow  for  his  sake, 

He  cried  in  a  strange,  witless,  wandering  way, 

Not  loud,  but  as  a  burthen  children  say 

When  they  have  known  it  long  by  heart,  '  Aye  me  ! 

The  blessed  Night  is  dark  on  land  and  sea, 

On  tired  eyes  the  dusts  of  Sleep  are  shed, 

And  yet  I  have  no  place  to  rest  my  head  !  ' 

Ev'n  as  he  spake  there  flash'd  across  my  sight 
A  glamour  of  the  Sleepers  of  the  Night : 
The  hushed  rooms  where  dainty  ladies  dream, 
And  shaded  night-lamps  shed  a  slumberous  gleam 
Across  the  silken  sheets  and  broider'd  couch ; 
The  beggarman,  a  groat  within  his  pouch, 


14  THE    WANDERING  JEW 

Pillow'd  on  filthy  rags  and  chuckling  deep 
Because  his  dreams  are  golden ;  the  sweet  sleep 
Of  little  children  holding  in  pink  palm 
The  fancied  toy,  and  smiling  ;  slumbers  calm 
Of  delicate-limb'd  vestals,  slumbers  wild 
Of  puerperal  women  and  of  nymphs  defiled 
Wasting  like  rotten  fruit ; — as  scenes  we  see 
By  lightning  flashes,  changing  momently, 
These  visions  came  and  went,  each  gleaming  clear 
Yet  spectral,  in  the  act  to  disappear  ; 
I  mark'd  the  long  streets  empty  to  the  sky, 
And  every  dim  square  window  was  an  eye 
That  gazing  dimly  inward  saw  within 
Some  hidden  mystery  of  shame  or  sin, — 
Lovebed  and  deathbed,  raggedness  and  wealth, 
Pale  Murder,  tiptoe,  creeping  on  in  stealth 
With  sharp  uplifted  knife,  or  haggard  Lust 
Mouthing  his  stolen  fruit  of  tasteless  dust  ; 
And  then  I  saw  strange  huddled  shapes  that  lay 
In  blankets  under  palm  trees,  while  the  day 


THE    WANDERING  JEW  15 

Drew  far  across  the  sands  its  bloodred  line ; 
The  sailor  drearily  dozing,  while  the  brine 
Flash'd  eyes  of  foam  around  him  ;  glimpses  then 
Of  purple  royal  chambers,  where  pale  men 
Lay  naked  of  their  glory  ;  and  of  the  warm 
Bonfires  on  mountain  sides,  where  many  a  form 
Lay  prone  but  gript  the  sword ;  of  halls  of  stone 
Lofty  and  cold,  where  wounded  men  made  moan, 
And  the  calm  nurse  stole  softly  down  the  row 
Of  narrow  sickbeds,  like  a  ghost ;  and  lo  ! 
These  pictures  swiftly  came  and  vanished 
Like  northern  meteors,  leaving  as  they  fled 
A  trouble  like  the  wash  of  leaden  seas. 

Then,  while  the  glamour  of  such  images 
Weighed  on  my  Soul,  I  said,  '  Hard  by  I  dwell, — 
Poor  is  the  place,  yet  thou  mayst  find  it  well 
After  thy  travail.     Thither  let  us  go  !  ' 
And  by  my  side  he  falter'd  feeble  and  slow, 
Breathing  the  frosty  air  with  pain,  and  soon 


1 6  THE    WANDERING  JEW 

We  reached  a  lonely  Bridge  o'er  which  the  Moon 
Hung  phosphorescent,  blinding  with  its  wings 
The  lamps  that  flicker'd  there  like  elfin  things  ; 
But  near  us,  on  the  water's  brim,  engloom'd 
In  its  own  night,  a  mighty  Abbey  loom'd, 
Clothen  with  rayless  snow  as  with  a  shroud  ; 
And  suddenly  that  old  Man  cried  aloud, 
Lifting  his  weary  face  and  woe-begone 
Up  to  the  painted  windowpanes  that  shone 
With  frosty  glimmers,  '  Open,  0  thou  Priest 
Who  waitest  in  the  Temple ! '     As  he  ceased, 
The  fretted  arches  echoed  to  the  cry 
And  with  a  shriek  the  wintry  wind  went  by 
And  died  in  silence.     For  a  moment's  space 
He  stood  and  listened  with  upturned  face, 
Then  moan'd  and  faltered  on  in  dumb  despair, 
Until  we  stood  upon  the  Bridge,  and  there 
The  vitreous  light  was  luminously  drawn, 
Making  the  lamps  burn  dim,  as  in  a  ghostly  dawn. 


THE    WANDERING  JEW  17 


II 

VASTER  and  mightier  a  thousandfold 

Than  Babylon  or  Nineveh  of  old, 

Shrouded  in  snow  the  silent  City  slept  ; 

And  through  its  heart  the  great  black  Eiver  crept 

Snakewise,  with  sullen  coils  that  as  they  wound 

Flash'd  scales  of  filmy  silver ;  all  around 

The  ominous  buildings  huddled  from  the  light 

With  cold  grey  roofs  and  gables  tipt  with  white, 

And  lines  of  lamps  made  a  pale  aqueous  glow 

With  streaks  of  crimson  in  the  pools  below 

Between  the  clustering  masts.     'Twas  still,  like  Death  ! 

Still  as  a  snow-clad  grave  !     No  stir  !     No  breath  ! 

A  mist  of  silence  o'er  the  City  asleep, 

A  frozen  smoke  of  incense  that  did  creep 

From  Life's  deserted  Altar.     And  on  high 

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i8  THE    WANDERING  JEW 

Clouds  white  as  wool  that  melted  o'er  the  sky 
Before  the  winnowing  beams.     In  Heaven's  Serene 
No  sound  !  no  stir  !  but  all  the  still  stars,  green 
With  their  exceeding  lustre,  shedding  light 
From  verge  to  verge  of  the  great  dome  of  Night, 
And  scattering  hoarfrost  thro'  the  lustrous  space 
Between  their  spheres  and  the  dark  dwelling  place 
Of  mortals  blind  to  sight  and  dead  to  sound. 

So  lay  the  silent  City  glory-crowned, 
All  the  rich  blood  of  human  life  that  flows 
Thro'  its  dark  veins  hushed  in  deep  repose, 
The  pulses  of  its  heart  scarce  felt  to  beat, 
Calm  as  a  corpse,  the  snow  its  winding  sheet, 
The  sky  its  pall ;  and  o'er  its  slumbers  fell 
The  white  Moon's  luminous  and  hypnotic  spell, 
As  when  some  bright  Magician's  hands  are  prest 
With  magic  gloves  upon  a  Monster's  breast, 
So  that  the  heart  just  flutters,  and  the  eyes 
Shut  drowsily ! — But  it  dream'd  beneath  the  skies 


THE    WANDERING  JEW  19 

God  knows  what  dreams  !     "What  dreams  of  Heavens 

unknown, 

Where  sits  the  Lord  of  Life  on  his  white  Throne, 
While  angel- wings  flash  thick  as  fowl  that  flee 
Bound  islands  Hebridean,  when  the  Sea 
Burns  to  a  molten  sapphire  of  dead  calm  ! 

Upon  my  fever'd  eyes  fell  soft  as  balm 

The  ablution  of  the  Midnight,  as  once  more 

I  led  that  old  Man  weary  and  footsore, 

Guiding  his  steps,  while  ever  and  anon 

He  paused  in  pain  ;  and  thro'  the  light  that  shone 

O'er  the  still  Bridge  we  falter'd,  with  no  sound. 

Then,  as  he  paused  for  breath,  and  gazed  around, 
Again  I  questioned  gently  whence  he  came, 
His  place  of  birth,  his  kindred,  and  his  name, 
And  whisper'd  softly,  '  I  can  surely  see 
Thou  art  a  comer  from  a  far  Countrie, 
And  thou  art  very  old  ! ' — '  So  old  !  so  old  ! ' 

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He  answered,  shivering  in  the  moonlight  cold  ; 

Then  raised  his  head,  upgazing  thro'  the  Night, 

And  threw  his  arms  up  quick,  and  rose  his  height, 

Crying,  '  For  ever  at  the  door  of  Death 

Faintly  I  knock,  and  when  it  openeth 

"Would  fain  creep  in,  but  ever  a  Hand  snow-cold 

Thrusteth  me  back  into  the  open  wold, 

And  ever  a  voice  intones  early  and  late 

"  Until  thy  work  is  done,  remain  and  wait !  " 

And  century  after  century  I  have  trod 

The  infinitely  weary  glooms  of  God, 

And  lo .!  the  Winter  of  mine  age  is  here  ! ' 

Even  as  he  spake,  in  a  low  voice  yet  clear, 

Clinging  upon  me,  with  his  hungry  eyes 

Cast  upward  at  the  cold  and  pitiless  skies, 

His  white  hair  blent  with  snows  around  him  blown, 

And  his  feet  naked  on  the  Bridge  of  stone, 

Methought  I  knew  that  Wanderer  whom  God's  curse 

Scourgeth  for  ever  thro'  the  Universe 


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Because  he  mocked  with  words  of  blasphemy 
God's  Martyr  on  the  path  to  Calvary, 
Yea,  did  deny  him  on  his  day  of  Death  ! 
Wherefore,  with  shuddering  sense  and  bated  breath 
I  gazed  upon  him.     Shivering  he  stood  there, 
The  consecration  of  a  vast  despair 
Cast  round  him  like  a  raiment ;  and  ere  I  knew 
I  moaned  aloud,  '  Thou  art  that  Wandering  Jew 
Whose  name  all  men  and  women  know  too  well ! ' 

Strangely  on  me  his  eyes  of  sorrow  fell, 
And  bending  low,  as  doth  a  wind-blown  tree, 
In  a  low  voice  he  answer'd  : 

'I  am  He  ! ' 


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III 

0  NIGHT  of  wonder  !     0  enchanted  Night ! 
Full  of  strange  whisperings  and  wondrous  ligh. 
How  shall  I,  singing,  summon  up  again 
Thine  hours  of  awe  and  deep  miraculous  pain  ? 
For  as  I  stood  upon  those  streets  of  stone 

1  seem'd  to  hear  the  wailing  winds  intone 
'  AHASUEKUS  ! ' — while  with  lips  apart, 

His  thin  hand  prest  upon  his  fluttering  heart. 
His  face  like  marble  lit  by  lightning's  glare, 
His  frail  feet  bleeding,  and  his  bosom  bare, 
List'ning  he  stood ! 

From  the  blue  Void  o'erhead 

Starlight  and  moonlight  round  his  shape  were  shed, 
And  the  chill  air  was  troubled  all  around 
With  piteous  wails  and  echoes  of  such  sound 


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As  fills  the  great  sad  Sea  on  nights  of  Yule, 
When  all  the  cisterns  of  the  heavens  are  full 
And  one  great  hush  precedes  the  coming  Storm. 
And  like  a  snow- wrapt  statue  seem'd  the  form 
I  looked  on,  and  of  more  than  mortal  height ! 
Wintry  his  robe,  his  hair  and  beard  snow-white 
Frozen  like  icicles,  his  face  all  dim, 
And  in  the  sunken,  sunless  eyes  of  him 
Silent  despair,  as  of  a  lifeless  stone  ! 

And  then  meseem'd  that  in  some  frozen  zone, 

Where  never  flower  doth  blossom  or  grass  is  green, 

Chill'd  to  the  heart  by  cruel  winds  and  keen 

Shiv'ring  I  stood,  and  the  thick  choking  breath 

Of  Frost  was  round  me,  terrible  as  Death, 

And  he  I  look'd  on  was  a  figure  wan 

Hewn  out  of  snow  in  likeness  of  a  Man ; 

And  all  the  silent  City  in  a  trice 

Was  turn'd  to  domes  and  towers  of  rayless  ice, 

As  of  some  spectral  City  whose  pale  spires 


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Are  lighted  dimly  with  the  auroral  fires 
That  gleam  for  ever  at  the  sunless  Pole ! 

How  long  this  glamour  clung  upon  my  Soul 
I  know  not ;  but  at  last  methought  I  spake, 
Like  one  who,  fresh  from  vision,  half  awake, 
Murmurs  his  thought — '  Father  of  men  that  roam, 
Outcast  from  God  and  exile  from  thy  home, 
(If  such  there  be  for  any  Soul  in  need) 
I  will  not  say,  God  bless  thee,  since  indeed 
God's  blessing  is  a  burthen  and  a  blight ; 
Yet  will  I  bless  thee,  in  that  God's  despite, 
Knowing  thy  sorrow  manifold  and  deep. 
Aye  me,  aye  me,  what  may  I  do  but  weep, 
Seeing  thy  poor  grey  hair,  and  frail  shape  driven 
Hither  and  thither  by  the  winds  of  Heaven, 
Sharing  thy  sorrow,  hearing  thy  sad  moan 
That  penetrates  all  hearts  but  God's  alone, 
Knowing  thee  mortal,  yet  predoom'd  to  fare 
For  ever,  with  no  restplace  anywhere, 


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Although  all  other  mortal  things  may  die  ! 
Death  is  the  one  good  thing  beneath  the  sky ; 
Death  is  the  one  sweet  thing  that  men  may  see ; 
Yet  even  this  God  doth  deny  to  thee ! 
Thou  canst  not  die  ! '     With  feeble  lips  of  clay 
He  answered,  yet  the  voice  seem'd  far  away, 
'  Yea,  Death  is  best,  and  yet  I  cannot  die  ! ' 

Before  my  vision,  as  I  heard  the  cry, 

There  flash'd  a  glamour  of  the  Dead  ;  and  lo  ! 

I  saw  a  hooded  Phantom  come  and  go 

Across  great  solitary  plains  by  night, 

Bed  with  all  nameless  horror  of  the  fight, 

And  dead  white  faces  glimmer  d  from  the  sward, 

And  here  a  helmet  gleamed  and  there  a  sword, 

And  all  was  still  and  dreadful,  and  the  scent 

Of  carnage  thickened  where  the  Phantom  went. 

This  faded,  and  methought  I  stood  stone-still 

In  a  great  Graveyard  strewn  with  moonbeams  chill 

Like  bleaching  shrouds,  and  through  the  grassy  glooms 


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Pale  crosses  glimmer'd  and  great  marble  tombs  ; 
But  as  I  crost  my  frozen  hands  to  pray 
The  apparition  changed  and  died  away, 
And  I  was  walking  very  silently 
Some  oozy  bottom  of  the  sunless  Sea. 
And  midst  the  sombre  foliage  I  could  mark 
Black  skeletons  of  many  a  shipwreck'd  bark 
Within  whose  meshes,  washing  to  and  fro, 
Were  skeletons  of  men  as  white  as  snow 
Picked  clean  by  many  a  hideous  ocean-thing. 
The  waters  swung  around  me  as  they  swing 
Round  drowning  men,  and  with  a  choking  pain 
I  struggled, — and  that  moment  saw  again 
The  sleeping  City  and  the  cold  Moonshine, 
And  in  the  midst,  with  his  blank  eyes  on  mine, 
That  Man  of  Mystery  who  could  not  die ! 

And  lo,  his  lips  were  opened  with  a  cry, 

And  his  lean  hands  were  stretched  up  to  Heaven. 

4  Ah,  woe  is  me,'  he  said,  '  to  stand  bereaven 


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Of  that  which  every  man  of  clay  may  share  ! 
Eternity  hath  snowed  upon  my  hair, 
And  yet,  though  feeble  and  weary,  I  endure. 
Still  might  I  fare,  if  Death  at  last  were  sure, 
If  I  might  see,  eternities  away, 
A  grave,  wide  open,  where  my  feet  might  stay  !  ' 
Then  in  a  lower  voice  more  deep  with  dread, 
'  Father  which  art  in  Heaven,'  the  old  Man  said, 
*  Thou  from  the  holy  shelter  of  whose  wing 
I  came,  an  innocent  and  shining  thing, 
A  lily  in  my  hand  and  in  mine  eyes 
The  passion  and  the  peace  of  Paradise, 
Thou  who  didst  drop  me  gently  down  to  rest 
A  little  while  upon  my  Mother's  breast, 
Wrapt  in  the  raiment  of  a  mortal  birth, 
How  long,  how  long,  across  thy  stricken  Earth 
Must  I  fare  onward,  deathless  ?     Tell  me,  when 
May  I  too  taste  the  cup  thou  givest  to  men, 
My  brethren  and  thy  children  and  the  heirs 
Of  all  my  spirit's  sorrows  and  despairs  ? 


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My  work  is  o'er — my  sin  (if  sin  there  be) 

Is  buried  with  the  bones  of  Calvary ; 

My  blessing  has  been  spoken,  and  my  curse 

Is  winged  vengeance  hi  thy  Universe ; 

My  voice  hath  thrill'd  thy  dark  Eternity 

To  protestation  and  to  agony, 

And  Man  hath  listen'd  with  wild  lips  apart 

As  to  a  cry  from  his  own  breaking  heart ! 

What  then  remains  for  me  to  do,  0  God, 

But  fold  thin  hands  and  bend  beneath  thy  rod, 

And  ask  for  respite  after  labour  done  ? ' 

In  sorrow  and  in  awe  he  spake,  as  one 
Communing  with  some  Shape  I  could  not  mark, 
And  all  his  words  seem'd  wild,  his  meaning  dark ; 
And  as  he  ceased  the  Heavens  grew  dark  in  woe, 
And  faster,  thicker,  fell  the  encircling  Snow, 
Wrapping  him  with  its  whiteness  round  and  round  ; 
But  from  the  Void  above  no  sign,  no  sound, 


THE    WANDERING  JEW  29 

Came  answering  his  prayer. 

'  Father,'  I  said, 

'  Chill  falls  the  snow  upon  thy  holy  head, 
(Yea,  holy  through  much  sorrow  'tis  to  me) 
And  He  to  whom  thou  prayest  so  piteously 
Hears  not,  and  will  not  hear,  and  hath  not  heard 
Since  first  the  Spirit  of  Man  drew  breath  and  stirred  ! 
Let  us  seek  shelter ! '     But  I  spake  in  vain— 
He  heard  not ;  but  as  one  that  dies  in  pain 
Sank  feebly  on  the  parapet  of  stone. 

Upon  his  naked  breast  the  Snow  was  blown 
Thicker  and  colder — on  his  hoary  head 
Heavily  like  a  cruel  hand  of  lead 
It  thickened — so  he  stood  from  head  to  feet 
Smother'd  and  wrapt  as  in  a  winding  sheet, 
Forlorn  and  weary,  panting,  overpowered. 

Then  lo !  a  miracle  ! — For  a  space  he  cowered 


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As  if  o'ermastered  by  the  cruel  touch, 

But  all  at  once,  as  one  that  suffers  much 

Yet  quickeneth  into  anger  suddenly, 

He  said,  in  a  sharp  voice  of  sovereignty, 

'  Cease,  cease  ! '  and  at  the  very  voice's  sound, 

The  white  Snow  wildly  wavering  round  and  round 

Rose  like  a  curtain,  leaving  all  things  bright ! 

Spell-bound  and  wonder-stricken  at  the  sight, 
And  comprehending  not  its  import  yet, 
(For  still  my  Soul  with  fever  and  with  fret 
Was  laden,  and  I  bore  upon  my  mind 
The  darkness  of  that  doubt  that  keeps  men  blind) 
I  cried,  '  See !  see !  the  elemental  Snow 
Obeys  thy  call,  in  pity  for  thy  woe — 
Gentler  than  He  who  fashioned  men  for  pain, 
The  white  Snow  and  the  wild  Wind  and  the  Eain 
Would  bless  thee,  and  there  is  no  cruel  beast 
Which  He  -hath  made,  the  greater  or  the  least, 
Which  would  not  spare  thy  life  and  lick  thy  hand, 


THE    WANDERING  JEW  31 

Poor  outcast  comer  from  a  lonely  land. 
Yea,  only  God  is  cruel — Only  He 
Whose  foot  is  on  the  Mountains  and  the  Sea, 
And  on  the  bruised  frame  and  flesh  of  Man  ! ' 


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IV 

Lo,  now  the  Moonlight  lit  his  features  wan 
With  spectral  beams,  and  o'er  his  hoary  hair 
A  halo  of  brightness  fell,  and  rested  there  ! 
And  while  upon  his  face  mine  eyes  were  bent 
In  utterness  of  woeful  wonderment, 
Into  mine  ear  the  strange  voice  crept  once  more — 
*  Far  have  I  wandered,  weary  and  spirit-sore, 
And  lo  !  wherever  I  have  chanced  to  be, 
All  things,  save  men  alone,  have  pitied  me ! ' 

Then — then — even  as  he  spake,  forlornly  crown'd 
By  the  cold  light  that  wrapt  him  round  and  round, 
I  saw  upon  his  twain  hands  raised  to  Heaven 
Stigmata  bloody  as  of  sharp  nails  driven 
Thro'  the  soft  palms  of  mortals  crucified  ! 


THE    WANDERING  JEW  33 

And  swiftly  glancing  downward  I  descried 
Stigmata  bloody  on  the  naked  feet 
Set  feebly  on  the  cold  stones  of  the  street  !— 
And  moveless  in  the  frosty  light  he  stood, 
Ev'n  as  one  hanging  on  the  Cross  of  wood  ! 

Then,  like  a  lone  man  in  the  north,  to  whom 
The  auroral  lights  on  the  world's  edge  assume 
The  likeness  of  his  gods,  I  seem'd  to  swoon 
To  a  sick  horror ;  and  the  stars  and  moon 
Beel'd  wildly  o'er  me,  swift  as  sparks  that  blow 
Out  of  a  forge ;  and  the  cold  stones  below 
Chattered  like  teeth  !     For  lo,  at  last  I  knew 
The  lineaments  of  that  diviner  Jew 
Who  like  a  Phantom  passeth  everywhere, 
The  World's  last  hope  and  bitterest  despair, 
Deathless,  yet  dead  !— 

Unto  my  knees  I  sank, 

And  with  an  eye  glaz'd  like  the  dying's  drank 
The  wonder  of  that  Presence  ! 


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White  and  tall 

And  awful  grew  He  in  the  mystical 
Chill  air  around  Him, — at  His  mouth  a  mist 
Made  by  His  frosty  breathing ! — Then  I  kissed 
His  frozen  raiment-hem,  and  murmured 
'  Adonai !  Master !  Lord  of  Quick  and  Dead  ! ' 
'Twas  more  than  heart  could  suffer  and  still  beat- 
So  with  a  hollow  moan  I  fainted  at  his  feet ! 


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0  YE,  ye  ancient  men  born  yesterday, 

Some  few  of  whom  may  in  this  Yuletide  lay 

Feel  echoes  of  your  own  hearts,  listen  on, 

Till  the  faint  music  of  the  harp  is  gone 

And  the  weak  hand  drops  leaden  down  the  string  ! 

For  lo,  I  voice  to  you  a  mystic  thing 

Whose  darkness  is  as  full  of  starry  gleams 

As  is  a  tropic  twilight ;  in  your  dreams 

This  thing  shall  haunt  you,  and  become  a  sound 

Of  friendship  in  still  places,  and  around 

Your  lives  this  thing  shall  deepen,  and  impart 

A  music  to  the  trouble  of  the  heart, 

So  that  perchance,  upon  some  gracious  day, 

Ye  may  bethink  you  of  the  Song,  and  pray 

That  God  may  bless  the  Singer  for  your  sake  ! 

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36  THE    WANDERING  JEW 

Not  unto  bliss  and  peace  did  I  awake 
From  that  deep  swoon,  nor  to  the  garish  light 
Wherein  all  spiritual  things  grow  slight 
And  vanish — nay  ! — the  midnight  and  the  place 
Had  changed  not,  and  o'er  me  still  the  Face 
Shone  piteously  serene  ;  I  felt  its  ray 
On  mine  unclosed  eyelids  as  I  lay ; 
Then  gazing  up,  blinking  mine  eyes  for  dread 
Of  some  new  brightness,  I  discern'd  instead 
That  Man  Forlorn,  and  as  I  gazed  he  smiled 
Even  as  a  Father  looking  on  a  child  ! 
Aye  me  !  the  sorrow  of  that  smile  !     'Twas  such 
As  singer  ne'er  may  sing  or  pencil  touch  !— 
But  ye  who  have  seen  the  light  that  is  in  snow, 
The  glimmer  on  the  heights  where  sad  and  slow 
Some  happy  day  is  dying — ye  who  have  seen 
Strange  dawns  and  moonlit  waters,  woodlands  green 
Troubled  with  their  own  beauty ;  think  of  these, 
And  of  all  other  tender  images, 
Then  think  of  some  beloved  face  asleep 


THE    WANDERING  JEW  37 

'Mid  the  dark  pathos  of  the  grave,  blend  deep 
Its  beauty  with  all  those  until  ye  weep, 
And  ye  may  partly  guess  the  woe  divine 
Wherewith  that  Face  was  looking  down  on  mine, — 
While  trembling,  wondering,  like  a  captive  thrown 
By  cruel  hands  into  some  cell  of  stone, 
Who  waiting  Death  to  end  his  long  despair 
Sees  the  door  open  and  a  friend  stand  there 
Bringing  new  light  and  life  into  his  prison, 
I  faltered,  '  Lord  of  Life,  hast  thou  arisen  ?  ' 

'  Arisen  !     Arisen  !     Arisen  !  ' 

At  the  word 

The  silent  cisterns  of  the  Night  were  stirred 
And  plash'd  with  troublous  waters,  and  in  the  sky 
The  pale  stars  clung  together,  while  the  cry 
Was  wafted  on  the  wind  from  street  to  street ! 
Like  to  a  dreaming  man  whose  heart  doth  beat 
With  thick  pulsations,  while  he  fights  to  break 
The  load  of  terror  with  a  shriek  and  wake, 


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The  sleeping  City  trembled  thro'  and  thro' ; 

And  in  its  darkness,  open'd  to  my  view 

As  by  enchantment,  those  who  slumbered 

Kose  from  their  pillows,  listening  in  dread ; 

And  out  of  soot-black  windows  faces  white 

Gleamed  ghost-like,  peering  forth  into  the  night ; 

And  haggard  women  by  the  Eiver  dark, 

Crawling  to  plunge  and  drown,  stood  still  to  heark  ; 

And  in  the  silent  shrouded  Hospitals, 

Where  the  dim  night-lamp  flickering  on  the  walls 

Made  woeful  shadows,  men  who  dying  lay, 

Picking  the  coverlit  as  they  pass'd  away 

And  babbling  babe-like,  raised  their  heads  to  hear, 

While  all  their  darkening  sense  again  grew  clear, 

And  moaned  '  Arisen  !  Arisen  ! '  and  in  his  cell 

The  Murderer,  for  whom  the  pitiless  bell 

Would  toll  at  dawn,  sat  with  uplifted  hair 

And  broke  to  piteous  impotence  of  prayer  ! 

Then  all  grew  troubled  as  a  rainy  Sea, 


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I  sank  in  stupor,  struggling  to  be  free 
Even  as  a  drowning  wight ;  and  as  the  brain 
Of  him  who  drowneth  flasheth  with  no  pain 
Into  a  sudden  vision  of  things  fled, 
Faces  forgotten,  places  vanished 
Came,  went,  and  came  again,  and  'mid  it  all 
I  knew  myself  the  weary,  querulous,  small, 
Weak,  wayward  Soul,  with  little  hope  or  will, 
Crying  for  '  God,  God,  God,'  and  thrusting  still 
Cain's  offering  on  His  altar.     All  this  past — 
Then  came  a  longer  darkness — and  at  last 
I  found  myself  upon  my  feet  once  more 
Tottering  and  faint  and  fearful,  a  dull  roar 
Of  blood  within  mine  ears,  still  crying  aloud 
'  Arisen  !     Arisen  !     Arisen  !  '  .  .  . 

Whereon  the  cloud 

Of  wonder  lifted,  and  again  mine  eyes 
Saw  the  sad  City  sleeping  'neath  the  skies, 
Silent  and  flooded  with  the  white  Moon's  beams 
As  still  as  any  City  seen  in  dreams  ; 


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And  lo !  the  great  Bridge,  and  the  Eiver  that  ran 

Blindly  beneath  it,  and  that  hoary  Man 

Standing  thereon  with  naked  pierced  feet 

Uplooking  to  the  Heavens  as  if  to  meet 

Some  vision ;  and  the  abysses  of  the  air 

Had  opened,  and  the  Vision  was  shining  there  ! 

Far,  far  away,  faint  as  a  filmy  cloud, 

A  Form  Divine  appeared,  her  bright  head  bowed, 

Her  eyes  down-looking  on  a  Babe  she  prest 

In  holy  rapture  to  her  gentle  breast, 

And  tho'  all.  else  was  ghost-like,  strange,  and  dim, 

A  brightness  touched  the  Babe  and  cover'd  Him, — 

Such  brightness  as  we  feel  in  summer  days 

When  hawthorn  blossoms  scent  the  flowery  ways 

And  all  the  happy  clay  is  verdure-clad  ; 

And  the  Babe  seem'd  as  others  who  make  glad 

The  homes  of  mortals,  and  the  Mother's  face 

Was  like  a  fountain  in  a  sunny  place 

Giving  and  taking  gladness,  and  her  eyes 


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Behelcf  no  other  sight  in  earth  or  skies 
Save  the  blest  Babe  on  whom  their  light  did  shine  ; 
But  he,  that  little  one,  that  Babe  Divine, 
Gazed  down  with  reaching  hands  and  face  aglow 
Upon  the  Lonely  Man  who  stood  below 
And  smiled  upon  him,  radiant  as  the  morn ! 
Whereat  the  weary  Christ  raised  arms  forlorn 
And  answer 'd  with  a  thin  despairing  moan  ! 
And  at  the  sound  Darkness  like  dust  was  blown 
Over  the  Heavens,  and  the  sweet  Vision  fled, 
And  all  that  wonder  of  the  night  was  dead  !  .  .  .  . 

Yet  still  I  saw  him  looming  woebegone 

Upon  the  lonely  Bridge,  and  faltering  on 

With  feeble  feet  beneath  the  falling  snow, 

And  in  his  hand  the  lamp  hung,  flickering  low 

As  if  to  die,  yet  died  not.     Far  away 

He  seemed  now,  altho'  so  near, — a  grey 

Ghost  seen  in  dreams ;  yet  even  as  dreams  appear 

To  one  who  sleeps  more  mystically  clear 


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Than  any  vision  of  the  waking  sight, 

He  shone  upon  the  sadness  of  the  Night 

As  softly  as  a  star,  while  all  around 

Loom'd  the  great  City,  sleeping  with  no  sound 

Save  its  own  deep-drawn  breath.     Yet  I  could 

mark 
The  glimmer  of  eyes  that  watched  him  from  the 

dark 

Shadows  beyond  the  Bridge,  and,  where  the  rays 
Of  the  dim  moonlight  lit  the  frozen  ways, 
Shapes  crouching  low  or  crawling  serpent- wise 
Waited  to  catch  the  pity  of  his  eyes 
Or  touch  his  raiment-hem  ! 

Then,  while  I  wept 
For  pity  of  his  loneliness,  and  crept 
In  wonder  after  him,  with  bated  breath, 
Fell  a  new  Darkness  deep  and  dread  as  Death  ; 
And  from  the  Darkness  came  tumultuously 
Clangour  and  roar  as  of  a  storm-torn  Sea, — 


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And,  shrill  as  shrieks  of  ocean-birds  that  fly 
Over  the  angry  waters,  rose  the  cry 
Of  human  voices ! 

Then  the  four  Winds  blew 
Their  clarions,  while  the  stormy  tumult  grew, 
And  all  was  dimly  visible  again. 


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VI 

METHOUGHT  I  stood  upon  an  open  Plain 

Beyond  the  City,  and  before  my  face 

Kose,  with  mad  surges  thundering  at  its  base, 

A  mountain  like  Golgotha  ;  and  the  waves 

That  surged  round  its  sunless  cliffs  and  caves 

Were  human — countless  swarms  of  Quick  and  Dead  ! 

Then,  while  the  fire-flaught  flickered  overhead, 

I  saw  the  Phantoms  of  Golgotha  throng 

Around  that  ancient  Man,  who  trailed  along 

A  woeful  Cross  of  Wood  ;  and  as  he  went, 

His  body  bruised  and  his  raiment  rent, 

His  bare  feet  bleeding  and  his  force  out-worn, 

They  pricked  him  on  with  spears  and  laughed  in  scorn, 

Shouting,  '  At  last  Thy  Judgment  Day  hath  come  !  ' 


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And  when  he  faltered  breathless,  faint,  and  dumb, 
And  stumbled  on  his  face  amid  the  snows, 
They  dragged  him  up  and  drave  him  on  with  blows 
To  that  black  Mountain  ! 

Then  my  soul  was  'ware 
Of  One  who  silent  sat  in  Judgment  there 
Shrouded  and  spectral ;  lonely  as  a  cloud 
He  loomed  above  the  surging  and  shrieking  crowd. 
Human  he  seemed,  and  yet  his  eyeballs  shone 
From  fleshless  sockets  of  a  Skeleton, 
And  from  the  shroud  around  him  darkly  roll'd 
He  pointed  with  a  fleshless  hand  and  cold 
At  those  who  came,  and,  in  a  voice  that  thrill'd 
The  tumult  at  his  feet  till  it  was  still'd, 
Cried : 

'  Back,  ye  Waters  of  Humanity  ! 
Wait  and  be  silent.     Leave  this  Man  to  me. 
The  centuries  of  his  weary  watch  have  pass'd, 
And  lo  !  the  Judgment  Time  is  ripe  at  last. 


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Stand  up,  thou  Man  whom  men  would  doom  to  death, 
And  speak  thy  Name  !' 

'  JESUS  OF  NAZAEETH  !  ' 
Answer'd  the  Man. 

And  as  he  spake  his  name, 
The  multitude  with  thunderous  acclaim 
Shriek'd ! 

But  again  the  solemn  voice,  which  thrill' d 
The  tumult  and  the  wrath  till  they  were  still'd, 
Cried  : 

'  Peace,  ye  broken  hearts,  have  patience  yet ! 
This  Man  is  surely  here  to  pay  his  debt 
To  Death  and  Time.' 

And  to  the  Man  he  said : 

'  Jesus  of  Nazareth,  lift  up  thy  head 
And  hearken !     Brought  to  face  Eternity 
By  men,  thy  brethren,  form'd  of  flesh  like  thee, 
Brought  here  by  men  to  me,  the  Spirit  of  Man, 


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To  answer  for  thy  deeds  since  life  began, 

Brought  hither  to  Golgotha,  whereupon 

Thyself  wast  crucified  in  days  long  gone, 

Thou  shalt  be  judged  and  hear  thy  judgment  spoken 

Before  the  World  whose  slumbers  thou  hast  broken. 

Thou  saidst,  "I  have  fought  with  Death  and  am  the 

stronger ! 

Wake  to  Eternal  Life  and  sleep  no  longer  !  " 
And  men,  thy  brethren,  troubled  by  thy  crying, 
Have  rush'd  from  Death  to  seek  the  Life  undying, 
And  men  have  anguish'd,  wearied  out  with  waiting 
For  the  great  unknown  Father  of  thy  creating, 
And  now  for  vengeance  on  thy  head  they  gather, 
Crying,  "  Death  reigns  !   There  is  no  God — no  Father !  " 

He  ceased,  and  Jesus  spake  not,  but  was  mute 
In  woe  supreme  and  pity  absolute. 

Then  calmly  amid  the  shadows  of  the  Throne 

Another  awful  shrouded  Skeleton, 

Human  yet  more  than  human,  rose  his  height, 


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With  baleful  eyes  of  wild  and  wistful  light, 
And  said : 

'  0  Judge,  Death  reigned  since  Time  began, 
Sov'ran  of  Life  and  Change  !  and  ere  this  Man 
Came  with  his  lying  dreams  to  break  our  rest 
The  reign  of  Death  was  beautiful  and  blest ! 
But  now  within  the  flesh  of  men  there  grows 
The  poison  of  a  Dream  that  slays  repose, 
The  trouble  of  a  mirage  in  the  air 
That  turneth  into  terror  and  despair ; 
So  that  the  Master  of  the  World,  ev'n  Death, 
Hated  in  his  own  kingdom,  travaileth 
In  darkness,  creeping  haunted  and  afraid, 
Like  any  mortal  thing,  from  shade  to  shade, 
From  tomb  to  tomb ;  and  ever  where  he  flies 
The  seed  of  men  shrink  with  averted  eyes, 
And  call  with  mad  yet  unavailing  woe 
On  this  Man  and  his  God  to  lay  Death  low. 
Wherefore  the  Master  of  the  Quick  and  Dead 
Demandeth  doom  and  justice  on  the  head 


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Of  Him,  this  Jew,  who  hath  usurp'd  the  throne 

The  Lord  of  flesh  claims  ever  for  his  own. 

This  Jew  hath  made  the  Earth  that  once  was  glad 

A  lazar-house  of  woeful  man  and  mad 

Who  can  yet  will  not  sleep,  and  in  their  strife 

For  barren  glory  and  eternal  Life, 

Have  rent  each  other,  murmuring  his  Name  ! ' 

He  paused — and  from  the  listening  host  there  came 
Tumult  nor  voice — there  was  no  sound,  no  stir, 
But  all  was  hushed  as  a  death-chamber ; 
And  while  that  pallid  shrouded  Skeleton 
In  a  low  voice  like  funeral  bells  spake  on, 
From  heart  to  heart  a  nameless  horror  ran. 


50  THE    WANDERING  JEW 


VII 

'  IN  the  name  of  all  men  I  arraign  this  Man, 
Named  Jesus,  son  of  Joseph,  and  self-styled 
The  Son  of  God  ! 

'  Born  in  the  East,  the  child 
Of  Jewish  parents,  toiling  for  their  bread, 
He  grew  to  manhood,  following,  it  is  said, 
His  father's  humble  trade  of  carpentry  ; 
But  hearing  one  day,  close  to  Galilee, 
One  John,  a  madman,  in  the  desert  crying, 
Baptising  all  who  came  and  prophesying, 
This  Jesus  also  long'd  to  prophesy ; 
And  lo  !  ere  very  many  days  went  by, 
He  left  his  tools,  forsook  his  native  town, 
And  for  a  season  wandered  up  and  down 
On  idle  preaching  bent.     Now,  as  we  know, 
Madness  and  Falsehood  wedded  are,  and  grow 


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With  what  they  breed  ;  so  the  Accused  ere  long, 

Finding  his  audience  fit,  his  rivals  strong 

(For  prophets  in  those  realms  were  thick  as  bees), 

Began  to  invent  such  fables  as  might  please 

The  ears  of  ignorant  wonder- seeking  men, 

And  finding  'mong  the  Jewish  race  just  then 

The  wild  old  prophecy  of  a  Christ  and  King, 

Destined  to  lead  the  race,  still  lingering, 

He  threw  the  royal  raiment  ready  made 

On  his  bare  back,  and  blasphemously  played 

The  Christ  they  craved  for ! — next,  to  clinch  his  claim, 

And  prove  his  Godhead  not  an  empty  name, 

The  Man  wrought  miracles,  calling  to  his  aid 

Simple  devices  of  the  wizard's  trade, 

Healing  the  sick — nay,  even,  'twas  avowed, 

Bidding  a  dead  man  quicken  in  his  shroud  ! 

Pass  over  that  as  idle — turn  with  me 

To  the  completion  of  his  infamy  ! 

In  time,  when  he  had  sown  with  such  false  seed 

Rank  madness  broadcast  like  an  evil  weed, 

E   2 


52  THE    WANDERING  JEW 

Choking  the  wholesome  fields  of  industry, 

And  setting  all  the  fiends  of  folly  free, 

This  Jesus,  with  great  numbers  following, 

Bides  to  Jerusalem  like  any  King, 

And  throned  on  an  ass  goes  thro'  the  Gate. 

Arrived  within  the  City,  he  keeps  his  state 

With  publicans  and  harlots,  vaunts  abroad 

His  proud  vocation  as  the  Son  of  God, 

And  last,  presuming  on  his  pride  of  place, 

Profanes  the  Holy  Temple  of  the  race. 

The  rest  we  know — they  slew  him,  as  was  right, 

Set  him  upon  a  Cross  in  all  men's  sight, 

Then,  lastly,  buried  him.     And  now  'twas  thought 

The  Man  had  made  amends ;  the  ill  he  wrought 

Died  with  him,  since  his  foolish  race  was  run. 

Not  so ;  the  Man's  black  crime  had  scarce  begun  ! 

For  on  the  Sabbath  day,  as  scribes  aver, 
Three  Women,  watching  by  his  Sepulchre, 


THE    WANDERING  JEW  53 

Beheld  the  stone  roll'd  back,  and  in  the  gloom 

Beyond,  a  cast-off  shroud  and  empty  tomb  ! 

The  Man  had  risen,  and  that  very  day 

Appeared  among  the  faithful  far  away, 

Spake,  vanish'd,  and  was  never  after  seen 

By  those  who  knew  him,  loved  him,  and  had  been 

His  life-long  followers.' 

Now,  hear  and  heed — 
Had  this  Man,  like  the  rest  of  Adam's  seed, 
Rested  within  his  grave,  turned  back  to  dust, 
Accepted  dissolution,  as  were  just, 
Well  had  it  been  for  him  and  all  man's  race ! 

He  rose,  this  Jew — but  in  what  secret  place 
He  for  a  season  hid  his  evil  head 
We  know  not ;  followers  of  his  tribe  have  said 
He  walked  with  bleeding  feet  dejectedly 
The  lava  shores  of  Hell  (if  Hell  there  be  !), 
Pondering  his  plan  to  lead  the  world  astray — 


54  THE    WANDERING  JEW 

But  after  sundry  years  had  past  away 

Mortals  began  to  see  in  divers  lands 

A  Phantom  pale  with  pierced  feet  and  hands 

Who  cried,  '  I  am  the  Christ — believe  on  me — 

Or  lose  your  Souls  alive  eternally  ! ' 

And  of  those  men  a  few  believed,  and  cried 

'  Lo  !  Christ  is  God,  and  God  we  crucified  ! 

But  He  shall  come  to  judge  the  Quick  and  Dead  ! ' 

Now,  mark  the  issue.     Where  this  rumour  spread, 
All  other  gentle  gods  that  gladden'd  Man 
Faded  and  fled  away ;  the  priests  of  Pan, 
That  singing  by  Arcadian  rivers  rear'd 
Their  flowery  altars,  wept  and  disappeared  ; 
And  men  forgot  the  fields  and  the  sweet  light, 
Joy,  and  all  wonders  of  the  day  and  night, 
All  splendours  of  the  sense,  all  happy  things, 
Art,  and  the  happy  Muses'  ministerings, 
Forgot  that  radiant  house  of  flesh  divine 
Wherein  each  Soul  is  shut  as  in  a  shrine, 


THE    WANDERING  JEW  55 

Because  this  Phantom,  like  a  shape  in  sleep, 

Showing  his  red  wounds,  murmur'd,  '  Pray!  and  weep  ! ' 

And  when  fair  Earth,  mother  of  things  of  clay, 

The  gladsome  Mother,  now  grown  gaunt  and  grey, 

Cried  to  her  children,  '  Children,  stay  with  me  ! 

I  made  you  happy,  innocent,  and  free  ! 

Although  this  Man,  my  latest  born,  your  brother, 

Casts  dust  in  the  living  eyes  of  me,  his  mother, 

Follow  him  not,  forsake  me  not,  but  stay  !  ' 

They  too,  because  He  beckon'd,  turned  away, 

Or  cursing  her  who  bare  them,  they  too  shed 

Dust  in  her  eyes,  dishonour  on  her  head. 

First,  in  her  name,  the  Mother  of  all  our  race, 
Whom  this  unfilial  hand  smote  in  the  face, 
Whom  he  defamed  and  shamed  with  cheats  and  lies, 
And  taught  a  thousand  children  to  despise, 
I  demand  justice  on  her  Son,  this  Jew  !— 

Pass  on.     The  rumour  of  his  godhead  grew  ; 


56  THE    WANDERING  JEW 

Yea,  men  were  conscious  of  a  Presence  sad, 

Crowned  with  thorns,  in  ragged  raiment  clad, 

Haunting  the  sunless  places  of  the  Earth  ; 

And  mystic  legends  of  his  heavenly  birth, 

His  many  miracles,  his  piteous  death, 

Were  whisper 'd  by  the  faithful  tinderbreath  ; 

And  wights  grown  sick  from  tearfullest  despairs, 

And  many  weary  souls  worn  out  with  cares, 

Sick  men  and  witless,  all  who  had  assailed 

The  gleaming  heights  of  Happiness  and  failed, 

But  chiefly  women  bruised  and  undertrod, 

Believed  this  Man  indeed  the  Son  of  God, — 

Because  he  said,  '  the  high  shall  be  estranged, 

The  low  uplifted,  and  the  weak  avenged, 

And  blest  be  those  who  have  cast  this  world  away 

To  await  the  dawning  of  my  Judgment  Day  ! ' 

And  straightway  many  yielded  up  their  lives, 

Blasphemed  their  bodies,  gash'd  their  flesh  with  knives, 

In  attestation  that  these  things  were  true. 

And  I  deny  not  that  to  some,  a  few 


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Poor  Souls  without  a  hope,  without  a  friend, 

The  lie  brought  comfort  and  a  peaceful  end  ; 

Nor  (to  be  just  to  him  we  judge,  even  him, 

This  Jew,  whose  presence  makes  the  glad  World  dim) 

That  often  to  the  martyr  in  his  prison 

He  went  and  whisper'd  '  Comfort  !  I  am  risen  ; ' 

Nor  that  to  sickbeds  sad,  as  Death  came  near, 

He  stole  with  radiant  face  and  whisper'd  cheer, 

And  to  the  Crucified  brought  secretly 

The  vinegar  and  sponge  of  Charity  ! 

Yet  in  the  name  of  those  who  died  for  Him, 
Self-slain,  or  by  the  beasts  rent  limb  from  limb, 
Who  in  his  Name  with  calm  unbated  breath 
Went  smiling  down  the  dark  descent  of  Death, 
Who  went  because  He  beckon'd  with  bright  hand 
Out  of  the  mirage  of  a  heavenly  Land, 
I  demand  justice  on  their  Christ,  this  Jew  ! 

Pass  on.     From  land  to  land  the  tidings  flew 


58  THE    WANDERING  JEW 

That  Christ  was  God,  and  that  the  World  was  doorn'd ! 
Then  droopt  the  lilies  of  delight,  then  bloom'd 
The  martyr's  rose  of  blood ;  Kings  on  their  thrones 
Cast  down  their  crowns  and  crawled  with  piteous  moans 
To  the  baptismal  font  where  Priests,  grown  bold, 
Held  high  the  crucifix  wrought  round  with  gold. 
And  soon  (how  swiftly  seeds  of  evil  spring  !) 
They  set  a  Priest  on  High  and  crowned  him  King, 
Yea,  King  of  all  earth's  Kings,  and  next  to  Christ ! 
There  reign'd  he,  at  his  will  the  realms  were  priced, 
And  each,  grown  blind  to  worldly  gain  and  loss, 
Paid  tribute  to  the  King  and  to  the  Cross. 
Behind  that  King,  this  Phantom  most  forlorn 
Kept  watch,  from  morn  to  night,  from  night  to  morn  ; 
And  countless  Temples  rose  into  the  air, 
Golden  and  vast  and  marvellously  fair, 
And  artists  wrought  on  canvas  and  on  stone 
Strange  images  of  Christ  upon  His  Throne 
Judging  the  World ;  and  voices  filled  each  land  : 
'  Eejoice — the  heavenly  Kingdom  is  at  hand; ' 


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And  for  a  space  indeed,  so  well  he  feign'd, 

It  seem'd  that  Christ  had  conquer'd  Death,  and  reigned. 

The  triumph  passed.     The  poison  of  the  Lie 

Spread,  as  all  foul  things  spread  beneath  the  sky  ; 

And  presently,  the  time  being  ripe  at  last, 

From  shrine  to  shrine  this  pallid  Phantom  passed 

Whispering,  *  My  Word  hath  grown  a  winged  fire, 

Yet  thousands  doubt  me  and  blaspheme  the  Sire — 

See  ye  to  this,  0  Priests  !  seek  the  abhorred 

And  judge  them,  with  your  Master's  Flame  and  Sword.' 

Look,  where  the  culprit  croucheth  in  his  place, 

Blood  on  his  hands,  and  terror  in  his  face  ! 

Aye,  glue  your  gaze  upon  him,  while  I  tell 

Of  damned  deeds  and  thoughts  befitting  Hell !...." 

They  went  abroad,  his  Priests,  like  wolves  that  scent 

Lambs  in  the  fields,  and  slew  the  innocent ; 

The  holy  Shepherds  who  in  places  green 

To  Isis  sang  and  Thammuz  songs  serene 


6p  THE    WANDERING  JEW 

They  found  and  slaughter'd,  till  their  red  blood  ran 

In  torrents  down  the  streams  Egyptian ; 

The  gentle  Souls  who  loved  their  mother  Earth, 

And  wept  because  she  had  given  the  Monster  birth, 

They  cast  in  cruel  fire,  and  sacrificed 

To  appease  the  blood- thirst  of  this  Jew,  their  Christ ! 

From  land  to  land,  from  sea  to  sea,  they  fled, 

And  where  they  went  the   plains  were  strewn  with 

dead. 

Then,  when  all  men  knelt  down  and  cried  in  pain 
'  Hosannah  to  the  Lord — for  Christ  doth  reign,' 
When  no  man  doubted,  since  he  dared  not  doubt 
Because  of  fiends  that  ringed  him  roundabout, 
When  no  man  breath'd  in  his  own  dwelling-house, 
They  paused  a  little  time  and  held  carouse, 
With  full  cups  pledging  Christ ;  but  mark  the  rest ! 
While  they  in  triumph  revelled  east  and  west, 
He  past  'mong  them,  his  chosen,  and  distilled 
A  fatal  poison  in  the  cups  they  filled, 
And  when  thro'  vein  and  thew  the  poison  crept, 


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Like  wolves  upon  each  other's  throats  they  leapt, 
Bending  each  other  in  their  Master's  sight. 

Next,  in  the  name  of  Love  and  Love's  delight, 

And  in  the  name  of  pagans  blest  and  blind 

Who  loved  the  old  gods  best  for  they  were  kind, 

Of  virgins  who  despite  the  fire  and  sword 

Shrank  from  this  Scourge  and  called  on  God  the  Lord, 

Of  haggard  men  who  dared  not  draw  their  breath 

Because  they  deem'd  this  man,  not  Christ,  but  Death ; 

Yea,  in  the  name  of  his  own  Priests  profaned 

Because  they  did  his  bidding,  and  he  reigned, 

I  demand  justice  on  their  Christ,  this  Jew. 

Nay,  listen  yet.     The  dark  corruption  flew 

Like  loathsome  pestilence  from  land  to  land ; 

From  every  Altar,  raised  at  his  command, 

Blood  dript  like  dew ;  grown  mad  with  pride  and  scorn 

His  Priests  cast  off  the  masks  that  they  had  worn, 

And  'neath  the  Cross,  within  the  very  shrines, 

Held  hideous  revel  with  their  concubines, 


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Flaunted  before  their  silent  Christ  thorn-crowned 

The  emblems  of  Priapus,  and  around 

Danced  naked,  with  lewd  songs  and  signs  obscene ; 

Then  the  bald  monk,  upon  the  convent  green, 

Rolled  with  the  harlot ;  then  the  King  of  Priests 

In  the  very  Shrine  did  lewdness  worse  than  beast's, 

While  Incest  and  foul  Lusts  without  a  name 

Crawl'd  in  His  temples,  and  he  felt  no  shame. 

For  when  the  people  murmur'd,  Priests  and  Kings 

Made  answer,  '  Be  at  peace,  ye  underlings ! 

Since  'tis  enough  to  deem  that  Christ  is  Lord, 

To  adore  his  symbols  and  to  wield  his  sword, 

And  all  our  deeds,  tho'  black  as  blackest  night, 

Are  vindicated  in  our  Master's  sight ! ' 

Oh,  God  that  madest  Man,  if  God  there  be, 

Didst  make  these  things,  didst  hear  this  blasphemy  ? 

No  writing  on  the  wall  disturbed  the  feasts 

Of  pathic  Popes  and  leprous,  lechrous  Priests  ? 

This  Man  with  falsehoods  seventy  times  seven 

Defamed  Thy  world,  and  Thou  wast  dumb  in  Heaven  ! 


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Now,  in  the  name  of  vestals  sacrificed 
To  feed  the  lust  of  those  same  priests  of  Christ, 
Of  acolyte  children  tangled  in  the  mesh 
Of  infamous  and  nameless  filths  of  flesh, 
In  the  name  of  those  whom  King  and  Priest  and 

Pope 

Cast  down  to  dust,  beyond  all  peace  and  hope, 
Yea,  in  their  names  who  made  this  Man  their  guide, 
And  curst  by  men,  by  him  were  justified, 
I  demand  justice  on  their  Christ,  this  Jew  ! 

Pass  on.     With  cruel  pitiless  hand  he  drew 
A  curtain  o'er  the  azure  Heavens  above, 
Hiding  the  happy  Light,  darkening  the  love 
Which  kept  life  clean  and  whole  ;  so  that  in  time 
The  very  smile  of  Life  became  a  crime 
Against  his  Godhead  ! — Brother  turn'd  from  brother, 
The  father  smote  his  child,  the  son  his  mother, 
And  every  fire  that  made  home  warm  and  sweet 
Was  trampled  into  ashes  'neath  his  feet. 


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Then  cried  he,  '  Life  itself  is  shame  and  sin  ! 

Break  ye  all  human  ties,  and  ye  shall  win 

My  Realm  beyond  the  grave  ! '  and  as  he  cried, 

Mortals  cast  ashes  on  their  heads  and  died, 

The  virgin  deem'd  that  Love's  own  kiss  defiled, 

The  mother's  milk  was  poison'd  for  the  child, 

The  father,  worse  than  beasts  who  love  their  young, 

Cast  to  the  wolves  the  little  ones  who  clung 

Crying  around  his  neck ;  the  Anchorite 

Turn'd  from  the  sunshine  and  the  starry  light 

And  hid  his  head  in  ordures  of  self-prayer ; 

The  naked  Saint  loomed  black  against  the  air 

Upon  his  tower  of  Famine  ;  and  for  the  sake 

Of  this  Man's  promise,  and  the  Lie  he  spake, 

Nature  itself  became  a  blight  and  ban  ! 

Nay,  more  !  thro'  all  the  world  corruption  ran 

As  from  a  loathsome  corpse — in  every  clime 

Disease  and  Pestilence  did  shed  their  slime, 

Till  human  Life,  once  clean  and  pure  and  free, 

Shrank  'neath  the  serpent-scales  of  Leprosy  ! 


THE    WANDERING  JEW  65 

Now  in  the  name  of  Life  denied  and  scorn'd, 
Of  hearts  that  broke  because  this  Phantom  warn'd, 
Of  weary  mothers  desolately  dying 
For  sons  whose  hearts  were  hardened  to  their  crying, 
Of  wives  made  husbandless  and  left  unblest, 
Of  little  children  starving  for  the  breast, 
Of  homes  made  desolate  from  sea  to  sea 
Because  he  said  '  Leave  all,  and  follow  me,' 
I  demand  justice  on  their  Christ,  this  Jew  ! 

He  reign 'd  where  Peace  had  reign' d ! — and  no  man  knew 
The  World  wherein  he  dwelt,  nor  sought  to  guess 
The  holy  laws  of  Light  and  Happiness ; 
Yea,  from  our  sight  the  beauteous  Heavens  were  veil'd 
And  the  Earth  under  them,  while  yet  Man  trail'd 
His  self-wrought  chain  across  the  fruitless  lands 
And  tore  his  own  pure  flesh  with  impious  hands. 
Then  from  the  depths  of  sorrow  pale  men  came, 
Who  climb'd  the  heights  and  lit  thereon  the  flame 
Which  scatter'd  darkness  and  illumed  the  skies, 

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66  THE    WANDERING  JEW 

And  on  the  stars  they  fixed  their  starry  eyes 

And  measured  their  progressions,  crying  aloud 

'  This  Phantom  of  the  Christ  is  but  a  cloud 

Veiling  the  glory  of  the  Infinite  ?  ' 

What  then  ?    His  creatures  found  them  in  the  night 

And  smote  them  down,  and  with  a  fouler  fire 

Made  for  their  martyred  bones  a  funeral  pyre 

That  did  proclaim  his  glory  and  their  despair  ! 

Even  thus  the  Martyr,  Man,  once  the  glad  heir 

Of  Earth  and  Heaven,  made  with  eyes  to  see 

And  sense  to  comprehend  his  Destiny, 

Was  bound  and  render'd  blind,  until  he  fell 

To  Darkness  dimly  lit  by  lights  of  Hell, 

And  there,  bereft  and  desolate  of  all 

That  made  him  free,  he  felt  his  dungeon  wall 

And  wail'd  on  God ;  and  lo,  at  this  man's  nod, 

His  Priests  and  Kings  appear'd,  instead  of  God, 

Saying  '  Bow  down,  thou  Slave,  and  cease  thy  strife, 

Confessing  on  thy  knees  that  Death  is  Life, 

And  Darkness,  Light ! ' — and  to  his  mouth  they  thrust 


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Their  cruel  Cross,  defiled  with  blood  and  dust ; 
And  when  he  had  testified  in  all  men's  sight 
That  Death  was  Life  and  Darkness  heavenly  Light, 
Forth  to  the  fire  the  shuddering  wretch  was  brought, 
And  slaughter'd  to  the  Lie  themselves  had  taught. 

Now,  in  their  names,  the  Souls  of  priceless  worth, 
Who  glorified  the  lights  of  Heaven  and  Earth, 
Who  fathom' d  Nature's  secret  star-sown  ways        « 
And  read  the  law  of  Life  with  fearless  gaze, 
Yet,  for  reward,  with  fire  were  shrivell'd  up, 
Or  poison' d  by  the  fatal  hemlock- cup, 
I  demand  doom  and  justice  on  this  Jew ! 

Pass  o'er  the  rest — the  countless  swarms  he  slew 
To  appease  his  lust  for  life  in  every  land ; 
The  happy  Nations  stricken  by  his  hand 
With  Famine  or  with  Pestilence ; — the  horde 
Of  butchering  Tyrants  and  of  Priests  abhorred 
Who  fatten'd  on  the  flesh  and  blood  of  men, 

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68  THE    WANDERING  JEW 

Because  this  Jew  had  died  and  risen  again  ! 

Come  to  the  issue.     Hear  it,  Jew,  and  know 

Nature  hath  gather'd  strength  to  lay  thee  low  ! 

Humanity  itself  shall  testify 

Thy  Kingdom  is  a  Dream,  thy  "Word  a  Lie, 

Thyself  a  living  canker  and  a  curse 

Upon  the  Body  of  the  Universe ! 

1'or  lo,  at  last,  thy  Judge,  the  Spirit  of  Man, 

And  I,  his  Acolyte  since  Time  began, 

Have  taught  thy  brethren,  things  of  clay  like  thee, 

That  all  thy  promise  was  a  mockery  ; 

That  Fatherhood  and  Godhead  there  is  none, 

No  Father  in  Heaven  and  in  Earth  no  Son, 

That  Darkness  never  can  be  Light,  that  still 

Death  shall  be  Death,  despite  thy  wish  or  will, 

That  Death  alone  can  comfort  souls  bereaven 

And  shed  on  Earth  the  eternal  sleep  of  Heaven. 

Yet  not  until  the  weary  world  is  free 

Of  all  thy  ghostly  godhead,  and  of  thee, 

Shall  he  who  stills  all  tumult  and  all  pain 


THE    WANDERING  JEW  69 

Unveil  the  happy  Heavens  once  more,  and  reign  ! ' 

He  ceased,  and  Jesus  heard,  but  made  no  sign. 

Then,  gazing  sadly  on  that  Man  Divine, 
He  added,  '  Peace,  and  hearken  yet,  0  Jew ! 
For  what  we  come  to  judge,  we  pity  too  ! 
The  blessed  sleep  Death  sheds  from  sea  to  sea, 
Shared  by  thy  brethren,  may  be  shared  by  thee, 
If  he  who  sits  in  Judgment  deems  it  well !  ' 

While  on  those  silent  hosts  his  dark  eyes  fell, 
And  thro'  the  Waves  of  Life  that  darkly  roll'd 
Around  him,  ran  a  tremor  deathly  cold, 
He  cried.  '  Awake,  awake,  for  'tis  the  time  ! 
Appear,  ye  Witnesses  of  this  Man's  crime  ! ' 


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VIII 

THE    WITNESSES 

FIRST  to  the  front  a  shrouded  figure  crept, 
Gazed  upon  Jesus,  hid  his  face,  and  wept, 
Saying  '  What  would  ye  ?    Wherefore  am  I  taken 
Out  of  the  dark  grave  where  I  slept  forsaken, 
Forgetting  all  my  heritage  of  woe  ? ' 

'  What  Soul  art  thou  ?  ' 

'  One  Judas,  named  also 
Iscariot.' 

'  Know'st  thou  the  Accused  ?  ' 

'  Aye  me, 
In  sooth  I  know  him,  to  my  misery  ! 


THE    WANDERING  JEW  71 

I  followed  him,  and  I  believed  for  long 
That  he  was  God  indeed,  serene  and  strong ; 
Then,  with  an  eager  hunger  famishing 
To  see  his  Kingdom  and  to  hail  him  King, 
I  did  betray  him,  thinking  "  when  he  stands 
Bound  and  condemn'd  in  the  oppressor's  hands, 
When  Death  comes  near  to  drink  his  holy  breath, 
He  will  put  forth  his  power  and  vanquish  Death  !  " 
But  when  I  saw  him  conquer'd,  crucified, 
I  hid  my  face  in  shame,  then  crept  aside, 
And  in  the  Potter's  Field  myself  I  hung.' 

'  Now  answer  !     Was  thy  spirit  conscience- stung  ? 
Having  betrayed  him,  wherefore  didst  thou  die  ?  ' 

'  Because  I  knew  his  promise  was  a  lie, 
Because  I  knew  the  Man  whom  I  had  slain 
Was  not  Messiah — Now,  let  me  sleep  again !  ' 

'  Pass  by.     The  next ! ' 


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Forth  stept  before  their  sight 
A  form  so  old,  so  wan  and  hoary  white, 
It  seem'd  another  Christ,  as  old,  as  sad  ; 
And  he  in  antique  raiment  too  was  clad, 
Ragged  and  wild,  and  his  white  hair  was  strewn 
Like  snow  around  him  'neath  the  wintry  Moon, 
And  by  his  side  a  lean  she -bear  there  ran, 
Gentle  and  tame,  uplooking  at  the  man 
With  piteous  bleats,  while  his  thin  hand  was  spread 
With  touch  as  chill  as  ice  upon  its  head. 
When  on  the  Accused  this  old  Man  turned  his  eyes 
He  shook  and  would  have  fled  with  feeble  cries, 
Bat  a  hand  held  him.     Shivering  and  afraid, 
He  shrank  and  gazed  upon  the  ground,  but  stay'd. 

k  Thy  name  ?  ' 

'  AHASUERUS.  Far  away, 
Beyond  the  changes  of  the  night  and  day, 
In  the  bleak  regions  of  the  Frozen  Zone, 


THE    WANDERING  JEW  73 

Lit  with  auroral  beams,  I  roamed  alone, 
When  a  voice  called  me,  and  behold  I  came.' 

'  Look  on  the  Accused.     Know'st  thou  his  Form  and 
Name  ? ' 

'  Alack,  I  know  him,  as  I  know  my  doom  — 

To  wander  o'er  the  world  without  a  tomb, 

Alone,  unpitied,  hopeless,  weak  and  wild  .  .  . 

Before  my  door  I  stood  with  wife  and  child 

That  weary  moment  when  they  led  him  by, 

Bearing  his  heavy  Cross  of  Wood,  to  die. 

He  would  have  rested  at  my  dwelling  place, 

But  knowing  him  blasphemer,  branded  base, 

Taking  the  name  of  God  in  vain,  I  cried, 

"  If  thou  art  God,  now  cast  thy  Cross  aside, 

And  take  thy  Throne — if  thou  hast  lied,  pass  on  !  " 

He  turned  on  me  his  face  all  woe-begone, 

And  murmur'd  faintly,  as  he  crawl'd  away, 

"  Thou  shalt  not  rest  until  my  Judgment  Day  ! 

Till  then  walk  on  from  sleepless  year  to  year !  " 


74  THE    WANDERING  JEW 

He  spake.     That  doom  pursued  me.     I  am  here.' 

'  Take  comfort,  brother.     Tho'  thy  wrongs  are  deep, 
When  this  same  Jew  is  judged  thou  shalt  sleep. 
Pass  by.' 

With  feeble  moan  and  weary  pace 
He  went.     Another  stept  into  his  place. 

'  Thou  ? ' 

'  PILATE,  to  whose  Eoman  judgment  seat 
They  brought  this  Jew,  casting  him  at  my  feet 
And  clamouring  for  his  life.     I  smiled  to  see 
So  mad  a  thing  usurping  sovereignty, 
And  said,  "  0  Jews,  if  so  ye  list,  fulfil 
The  law,  and  spare  or  slay  him  as  ye  will — 
The  Eoman  wars  not  with  such  foes  as  he — 
Upon  your  heads,  not  mine,  this  deed  shall  be." 
And  ere  to  shameful  Death  the  man  was  borne, 
I  turned  aside  and  washed  my  hands  in  scorn 
Of  them  and  him  I ' 


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'  Pass  on  !  ' 

The  Eoman  cast 

One  pitying  look  upon  the  Jew,  and  passed 
Into  the  darkness. — As  he  sank  from  sight 
There  came  in  pale  procession  thro'  the  night 
Great  Phantoms  who  the  imperial  robe  did  wear, 
Sceptre  in  hand,  and  bayleaves  in  the  hair, 
Each  lewd  and  horrible  and  infamous, 
A  monster,  yet  a  man :  Tiberius, 
Sejanus,  and  the  rest ;  and  last  of  all 
Came  one  who  trode  the  earth  with  light  foot-fall, 
And  sang  with  shrill  voice  to  a  golden  lute ; 
And  lo  !  a  woman's  robe  from  head  to  foot 
Enwrapt  him,  and  his  face  was  sickly  white 
With  nameless  infamies  of  lewd  delight, 
And  on  his  beardless  cheeks  mine  eyes  could  see 
The  hideous  crimson  paint  of  harlotry, 
While,  in  a  voice  as  any  eunuch's  shrill, 
He  cried, 

'  This  Jew,  their  Christ,  lay  cold  and  still 


76  THE    WANDERING  JEW 

Within  his  Sepulchre,  and  slept  supine, 
While  I,  the  Antichrist,  pour'd  blood  like  wine 
To  appease  my  parasites  and  paramours  ! 
Nay,  more,  before  my  shining  palace-doors 
And  round  the  gardens  of  the  feast,  I  placed 
The  naked  forms  of  men  and  maidens  chaste 
Who  worshipt  him,  and  lit  the  same  to  be 
The  living  torches  of  my  revelry  ; 
And  all  in  vain,  thus  stript  and  sacrificed, 
They  called  on  Christ  to  conquer  Antichrist ! 
In  the  amphitheatre  I  sat  and  smiled 
On  strong  men  martyred  and  on  maids  defiled  ; 
Then  clad  myself  in  skins  of  beasts,  and  flew 
To  glut  my  lechery  in  all  men's  view, 
And  ravenous-claw'd  my  bestial  lust  I  fed 
On  shuddering  flesh  of  virgins  ravished. 
And  yet  he  rose  not !     Still  and  stark  he  lay. 
God-like  I  reign'd,  with  a  god's  power  to  slay, 
Shame,  sadden,  gladden.     To  the  old  Gods  I  sang 
My  triumph- song  that  thro'  the  nations  rang 


THE    WANDERING  JEW  77 

While  Rome  was  burning !     On  my  mother's  womb 
I  thrust  the  impious  heel !     Yet  from  his  tomb 
This  Jesus  stirr'd  not !     God-like  still,  I  died 
By  mine  own  hand,  not  shamed  and  crucified 
As  he,  this  Jew,  had  been  ! — He  lives,  ye  say  ? 
Poor  Phantom  of  the  Cross,  forlorn  and  grey, 
What  shall  his  life  avail  ?    His  day  hath  fled, 
But  other  Antichrists  uplift  the  head 
And  laugh,  and  cry  "  The  reign  of  Christ  is  o'er  ! 
Make  merry !  "  —Yea,  the  Earth  is  his  no  more, 
His  Heaven  a  Dream,  and  where  he  wrought  in  vain 
The  harlot  and  the  sodomite  still  reign  ! ' 

He  spake,  and  with  a  shrill  and  cruel  cry 
Followed  his  brethren ;  in  his  track  crept  by 
Pale  ghostly  Phantoms  filleted  or  crown'd, 
Imperial  harlots  with  their  zones  unbound, 
And  haggard  children  clutch'd  yet  uncaress'd, 
Rolling  blind  eyes  and  fighting  for  the  breast ; 
And  after  these,  a  throng  of  martyrs  slain, 


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Bloody  and  maim'd  and  worn,  who  wail'd  in  pain, 
Fixing  their  piteous  eyes  on  that  pale  Jew. 

Crowd  after  crowd  they  passed,  and  passing  threw 
A  curse  or  prayer  on  Him  who  anguish'd  there 
Crown'd  with  the  calm  of  a  divine  despair, 
And  one  by  one  he  mark'd  them  come  and  go 
While  down  his  wrinkled  cheeks  deep-sunk  in  woe 
The  salt  tears  ran,  and  ever  and  anon 
He  hid  his  face  so  weary  and  woe-begone, 
Or  peering  vaguely  up  into  the  Night 
Pressed  his  skinny  hands  together  tight 
And  moan'd  unto  himself ! 


THE    WANDERING  JEW  79 


IX 

THEN  saw  I  rise 

A  shape  with  broad  bold  brow  and  fearless  eyes, 
Behind  him  as  he  came  a  murmuring  train 
Of  augurs,  soothsayers,  and  armed  men, 
With  gentle  priests  of  Ceres  and  of  Pan. 
'Boom  there,'  they  cried  aloud,  '  for  Julian  ! ' 
Bareheaded,  helm  in  hand,  he  took  his  place 
Before  the  Accused,  a  smile  upon  his  face. 

'  Thy  name  was  JULIAN  ?  ' 

He  answered,  '  Yes  ! 
I  wore  the  imperial  robe  in  gentleness, 
And  looking  on  the  World  around  my  throne 
I  heard  the  wretched  weep,  the  weary  moan, 
Saw  Nature  sickening  because  this  Man  wrought 


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To  scatter  poison  in  the  wells  of  Thought, 

So  that  no  Soul  might  live  in  peace  and  be 

Baptised  in  wisdom  and  philosophy ; 

Wherefore  I  summoned  from  their  lonely  graves 

The  Spirits  of  the  mountains  and  the  waves, 

The  tutelary  Sprites  of  flowers  and  trees, 

The  rough  wild  Gods  and  naked  Goddesses, 

And  all  alive  with  joy  they  leapt  around 

My  leaf-hung  chariot,  to  the  trumpet's  sound  ! 

Yea,  and  I  wakened  from  ancestral  night 

The  human  shapes  of  Healing  and  of  Light — 

Asclepios  with  his  green  magician's  rod, 

And  Aristotle,  Wisdom's  grave-eyed  god, 

And  bade  them  teach  the  natural  law  and  prove 

The  eternal  verities  of  Life  and  Love. 

What  then  ?     I  fail'd.     This  Serpent  could  elude 

My  priests,  however  swiftly  they  pursued, 

And  since  I  warned  them  not  to  slay  with  steel 

Nor  bruise  it  cruelly  beneath  the  heel, 

It  lived  amid  their  very  footprints,  fed 


THE    WANDERING  JEW 

On  blood  and  tears,  upraised  the  impious  head, 
Then  last,  still  living  on  my  day  of  doom, 
Stung  my  pale  corpse  and  coil'd  upon  my  tomb ! 
Oh,  had  I  guessed  that  mercy  could  not  win 
Blood  from  the  stone,  or  change  the  Serpent's  skin, 
That  pity  and  loving  kindness  ne'er  could  gain 
Foothold  in  Superstition's  black  domain, 
Then  surely  I  the  avenging  sword  had  bared 
And  slain  in  mercy  what  I  blindly  spared  ! 
'Twas  but  a  spark  !  one  stamp  of  foot,  and  lo  ! 
The  thing  had  perished  !     Fool,  to  let  it  grow  ! 
So  that  it  grew  as  such  foul  hell-fire  can, 
Spreading  from  City  unto  City  of  Man, 
Turning  this  World  of  greenness  and  sweet  breath 
Into  a  charnel  house  of  shameful  Death. 
The  Galilean  conquered  as  I  threw 
My  last  wild  jet  of  life-blood  to  the  blue, 
Nature  resigned  her  birth-right  with  a  groan, 
And  Thought,  like  Niobe,  was  turn'd  to  stone ! ' 

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82  THE    WANDERING  JEW 

His  legions  shouted  faintly  as  lie  cast 
One  glance  of  scorn  on  the  pale  Jew  and  passed 
To  darkness.     Following  him,  methought,  there  stalked 
Aurelius,  calmly  musing  as  he  walked, 
With  many  another  lesser  King  of  clay, 
Who  paused  and  testified,  then  passed  away ; 
So  thick  they  came  from  out  the  troubled  dark 
My  brain  grew  dizzy  and  I  ceased  to  mark, 
Until  at  last  a  marble  Maiden  rose, 
Stript  naked  to  the  skin  and  bruised  with  blows, 
Yet  fair  and  golden-haired  and  azure-eyed 
She  stood  erect  with  fearless  gaze,  and  cried : 

'  I  was  HYPATIA.     Bound  my  form  fell  free 

The  white  robe  of  a  wise  virginity, 

While  in  the  fountains  of  the  Past  I  sought 

Strange  pearls  of  Dream  and  dim  Platonic  thought. 

Now,  as  I  gazed  therein,  I  saw  full  plain 

The  faces  of  dead  Gods  whom  men  had  slain — 

How  fair  they  seemed  !  how  gentle  and  how  wise ! 


THE    WANDERING  JEW  83 

The  Spirits  of  the  gladsome  earth  and  skies ! 

And  lo,  I  loved  them,  and  I  lit  anew 

Their  vestal  lamps  that  men  might  love  them  too, 

And  so  be  passionately  purified. 

The  rest  ye  know.     Thro'  this  same  Jew,  I  died. 

Peter  the  Header  and  his  monkish  throng 

Found  me  and  slew  me,  trail'd  my  limbs  along 

The  streets,  and  left  me,  bloody,  stark,  and  dead ! ' 

I  watch'd  her  as  with  slow  and  silent  tread, 
Erect  tho'  naked,  cloth'd  with  chaste  cold  Light 
As  is  the  virgin  votaress  of  the  Night, 
She  vanished  in  the  darkness.     Then  for  long 
I  marked  the  Witnesses  in  shadowy  throng 
Come,  say  their  say,  and  go ;  from  every  side 
They  gathered  one  by  one  and  testified, 
And  as  they  testified  against  the  Jew 
Creation  darkened  and  the  murmur  grew  ! 
Meantime  the  Accused  stood  listening,  with  his  eyes 
Fixed  ever  sadly  on  the  far-off  skies 


84  THE    WANDERING  JEW 

Where  flocks  of  patient  stars  moved  slowly,  driven 

By  winds  unseen  to  the  dark  folds  of  Heaven, — 

And  ever  as  his  gaze  upon  it  yearned 

The  blue  Void  quicken'd  and  new  splendours  burned, 

And  while  the  lights  of  all  the  stars  were  shed 

As  lustrous  dew  upon  his  hoary  head, 

He  knelt  and  prayed  ! 

Then  rose  a  mighty  cry 
Which  shook  the  solid  air  and  rent  the  sky, 
And  flowing  thither  came  a  countless  crowd 
Of  women  and  of  men  who  called  aloud 
'  Allah  il  Allah  ! ' — Darkening  under  Heaven, 
Like  to  the  waves  of  Ocean  tempest-driven, 
Out  of  the  midnight  I  beheld  them  come 
Up  to  the  Judgment  Seat  and  break  to  foam 
Of  dusky  faces  and  of  waving  hands ; 
And  many  raised  aloft  great  crooked  brands 
And  banners  where  the  moonlike  crescent  burn'd. 
Then  dimly  thro'  the  darkness  I  discern'd 


THE    WANDERING  JEW  85 

A  stately  turban'd  King,  who  stood  alone  ; 
Around  his  form  a  prophet's  robe  was  thrown, 
And  in  his  hand  he  bore  a  scimitar 
Unsheath'd  and  shining  radiant  like  a  star  ; 
And  on  his  head  there  shone  a  crescent  gem, 
Bright  as  the  moon ;  and  to  his  raiment  hem 
Clung  women,  naked,  glorious-eyed,  and  fair, 
Houris  of  Heaven  with  perfumed  golden  hair. 
And  the  great  Sea  of  Life,  that  raged  and  broke 
Behind  him,  sank  to  silence  as  he  spoke, 
Awed  by  the  gleam  of  his  dark  eyes ;  for  lo  ! 
He  paused  not,  but  moved  onward  proud  and  slow, 
Saying,  as  past  the  Judgment  Seat  he  strode, 
'  This  man  cried,  "  I  am  Allah  !  very  God  !  '' 
Yet  helpless  as  a  slaughter'd  lamb  he  fell 
Beneath  the  angry  breath  of  Azrael, 
Great  Allah's  Angel,  sent  to  avenge  his  Lord  ! 
But  I,  who  raised  alike  the  Cross  and  Sword, 
In  Allah's  name,  his  Prophet,  was  content 
To  avow  myself  the  man  by  Allah  sent 


86  THE    WANDERING  JEW 

To  do  his  will  in  proud  humility. 

So  men  forgot  this  Jew,  and  turn'd  to  me, 

Who  on  the  desert-sands  my  flag  unfurled 

And  wrought  great  miracles  to  amaze  the  world  ! 

Upon  the  neck  of  Kings  my  foot  was  set, 

And  all  the  Nations  knew  me — MAHOMET  !  ' 

And  at  the  name  the  echoing  millions  roar'd 

'  Allah  il  Allah  !— Mighty  is  the  Lord  ! 

Mahomet  is  his  prophet ! '     Cloud  on  cloud, 

Wave  following  wave,  with  clash  of  tumult  loud , 

The  mighty  Sea  of  Lives  passed  onward,  crying, 

'  Allah  il  Allah  !  '  and  ever  multiplying  ; 

And  when  the  far-off  western  horizon 

Was  darkened  yet  with  those  who  had  come  and  gone, 

Millions  still  came  from  the  eastward,  sweeping  by 

The  Judgment  Seat  with  that  victorious  cry  ; — 

And  endless  seem'd  the  space  of  time  until 

The  swarms  had  past,  and  al]  again  was  still,— 

When,  fronting  the  Accused,  the  Accuser  cried  : 


THE    WANDERING  JEW  87 

'  Greater  than  this  pale  Jew  men  crucified 

Was  he  whose  mighty  star,  blood-red  and  bright, 

Shines  on  the  minarets  of  the  Islamite  !  ' 

But  as  he  spake,  out  of  the  East  there  came 
One  follow' d,  too,  with  clangorous  acclaim — 
A  human  Shape,  wrapt  in  white  lamb-like  wool, 
Star-eyed  and  sad  and  very  beautiful, — 
A  sceptre  in  his  hand,  and  on  his  head 
A  crown  of  silver,  brightly  diamonded  ; 
Who,  flying  swift  as  wind  on  veiled  feet, 
Approach'd,  and  pausing  at  the  Judgment  Seat, 
Cried : 

*  Sleeping  in  my  Sepulchre,  wherein 
I  deem'd  myself  secure  from  sense  and  sin, 
A  voice  disturbed  me,  and  awakening, 
I  heard  wild  voices  o'er  the  Nations  ring, 
Naming  the  names  of  lesser  gods  than  I. 
Deathless  I  pause,  while  all  the  rest  pass  by — 
They  taught  them  how  to  live,  I  taught  them  how  to  die  ! 


88  THE    WANDERING  JEW 

Heir  of  the  realms  of  sorrow  and  despair, 

I,  GAUTAMA,  the  BUDDHA,  gently  bare 

The  Lily,  and  not  the  Cross,  and  not  the  Sword, 

And  countless  hailed  me  King  and  Lord ! 

What  voices  break  my  rest  ?     What  impious  strife 

Stirreth  my  sleep  and  brings  me  back  to  life  ? — 

Yea,  plucks  me  from  God's  breast,  whereon  I  lay, 

To  take  my  place  again  'mong  Kings  of  clay, 

Inheritors  of  Sorrow  !  ' 

Even  as 

He  spake,  the  throngs  who  follow' d  bent  like  grass 
Wind-blown  to  worship  him  ! 

With  radiant  head 

He  passed  on,  follow'd  by  the  Quick  and  Dead. 
And  in  that  train  I  saw,  or  seem'd  to  see, 
Other  inheritors  of  Deity — 
His  Brethren,  Gods  or  God-like,  following  : 
Pale  ZOKO  ASTER,  crowned  like  a  King  ; 


THE    WANDERING  JEW  89 

MENU  and  MOSES,  each  with  radiant  look 
Cast  on  the  pages  of  an  open  Book  ; 
CONFUCIUS,  in  a  robe  of  saffron  hue, 
Enwrought  with  letters  quaint  of  mystic  blue  ; 
PROMETHEUS,  dragging  yet  his  broken  chain, 
And  gazing  heavenward  still,  in  beautiful  disdain. 

Ghostwise  they  testified  and  vanished, 
These  mighty  spirits  of  the  god-like  Dead ; 
Some  reverend  and  hoary,  some  most  fair, 
With  brightness  in  their  eyes  and  on  their  hair, 
Each  kingly  in  his  place,  and  in  his  train 
Souls  of  fair  worshippers  that  Jew  had  slain. 


90  THE    WANDERING  JEW 


THEN,  waiting  on  and  watching  thro'  the  gloom, 

I  saw  the  glimmer  of  an  open  Tomb 

Hewn  in  the  mountain- side,  and  thence  a  band 

Crown'd  and  tiara'd,  each  with  Cross  in  hand, 

Of  woeful  Phantoms  issued,  murmuring  : 

'  We  were  the  Vicars  of  this  Christ,  our  King  ! 

And  lo,  he  let  us  reign  ! — and  sins  like  lice 

Ean  o'er  us,  while  we  sought  with  foul  device 

To  cloak  the  living  Lie  on  which  we  fed  ! ' 

And  one  cried  :  '  As  I  lay  upon  my  bed, 

My  leman  at  my  side,  mine  hands  still  red 

With  mine  own  brother's  blood,  they  strangled  me  ! 

And  one  laugh'd,  '  With  this  Cross  as  with  a  key 


THE    WANDERING  JEW  91 

I  open'd  up  the  caves  where  Monarchs  kept 
Their  secret  gold  ! ' 

And  one  who  wail'd  and  wept, 
Yet  could  not  speak,  gaped  with  black  jaws  forlorn 
To  show  the  mouth  whence  the  red  tongue  was  torn. 

And  one  said,  '  Murder  was  my  handmaiden  ! 
I  made  a  Throne  with  bones  of  butcher'd  men 
And  set  her  there,  and  in  my  Master's  name 
Baptised  her  !  '  And  all  those  others  cried  again — 
'  We  were  his  Vicars,  and  he  bade  us  reign  !  ' 

Back  to  the  Tomb  they  crept  with  senile  cries, 
Mumbling  with  toothless  gums  and  blinking  eyes 
Thick  with  the  rheum  of  age  ! — and  in  their  stead 
Rose  shapes  of  butcher'd  Seers  whose  wounds  still  bled, 
And  some  were  clothen  with  consuming  flame 
As  with  a  garment,  crying  as  they  came  : 
'  We  saw  all  Nature  blacken'd  far  and  wide 
Because  this  Jew  was  dead  yet  had  not  died, 


92  THE    WANDERING  JEW 

For  thro'  the  world  of  broken  hearts  he  went 
Demanding  blood  and  tears  for  sacrament, 
Crowning  the  proud  and  casting  down  the  just, 
Lighting  the  altar-flames  of  Pride  and  Lust, 
Calling  the  Deadly  Sins  accurst  and  dire 
To  be  his  acolytes  and  to  feed  the  fire 
Through  which  we  perish'd  ;  yet  we  testified 
With  all  our  Souls  against  him  ere  we  died  ! ' 

0  Night  of  terror  !  0  dark  suffering  Night, 

With  wounded  bleeding  heart  and  great  eyes  bright 
With  starry  portents  and  serene  despairs  ! 

1  saw  them,  one  by  one,  the  ghostly  heirs 
Of  Wisdom  and  of  Woe,  the  Souls  long  fled 
Who  died  like  him,  and  like  him  are  not  dead, 
The  Great,  the  Just,  the  Good,  who  cannot  die, 
Because  this  piteous  Phantom  passeth  by, 

And  when  they  fain  would  slumber,  murmureth 

'  Lo,  Christ  is  God,  and  God  hath  vanquish' d  Death  ! 

Like  wave  on  wave  they  came,  like  cloud  on  cloud. 


THE    WANDERING  JEW  9.3 

Before  the  Throne  stood  one  wrapt  in  his  shroud, 
And  bearing  in  his  lean  uplifted  hand, 
That  shook  but  did  not  fall,  a  flaming  Brand. 
The  Judge  spake  (while  I  dream'd  who  this  might  be) 
1  Thy  name  ? ' 

'  GALILEO,  of  Italy,' 

He  answer'd  ;  while  two  other  shapes  in  white 
Crept  to  him,  on  the  left  hand  and  the  right. 
'  These  Brethren,  standing  side  by  side  with  me, 
Wore  the  white  raiment  of  Philosophy, 
Yet  died  in  anguish,  butcher'd  in  Christ's  name. 
He  on  my  right  hand,  BRUNO,  died  by  flame. 
He  on  my  left,  CASTILIO,  starved  for  bread. 
We  saw  the  Heavenly  Book  above  us  spread, 
We  pored  upon  its  living  lines  of  fire, 
And  saw  therein  the  Name  of  God  the  Sire. 
Upon  us  as  we  ponder'd,  thought,  and  prayed, 
Came  this  man's  Priests  and  Soldiers,  and  betrayed 
Our  Souls  to  torture  and  to  infamy  !  ' 


94  THE    WANDERING  JEW 

'  'Tis  well.     Ye  kept  your  Souls  sublime  and  free, 
And  he  who  slew  you  waits  for  judgment  there  ! ' 

Suddenly,  with  a  shriek  that  rent  the  air, 
Shadows  on  shadows  throng' d  around  and  cried : 
'  We,  too,  were  slain  because  we  testified ! 
Our  bones  are  scattered  white  in  every  land  ! 
We  pass'd  the  Fiery  Torch  from  hand  to  hand  ; 
Fast  as  one  fell,  another  raised  it  high, 
Till  he  in  turn  was  smitten  down  to  die. 
Yet  on,  from  clime  to  clime,  from  pole  to  pole, 
It  pass'd,  and  lit  the  Beacons  of  the  Soul, 
Till  wheresoever  men  could  gaze  they  saw 
The  fiery  signs  and  symbols  of  the  Law, 
Older  than  God,  which  saith  the  Soul  is  free  ! ' 

The  Accuser  smiled,  and  rising  quietly, 
With  ominous  lifted  hand,  '  0  Judge,'  he  cried, 
*  If  I  should  question  all  men  who  have  died 
Because  this  Jew  once  quickened  in  the  sun, 


THE    WANDERING  JEW  95 

Eternity  would  pass  ere  all  was  done. 

Enough  to  know,  wherever  men  have  striven 

To  read  the  open  scrolls  of  Earth  and  Heaven, 

Wherever  in  their  sadness  they  have  sought 

To  find  the  stainless  flowers  of  lonely  Thought, 

Raising  the  herb  of  Healing  and  the  bloom 

Of  Love  and  Joy,  this  Man  from  out  his  Tomb 

Hath  stalk'd,  and  slaying  the  things  their  souls  deem'd 

fair 

Hath  poison'd  all  their  peace  and  stript  them  bare. 
Century  on  century,  as  men  count  Time, 
This  Man  hath  been  a  curse  in  every  clime ; 
So  that  the  World,  once  the  glad  home  of  men, 
Hath  been  a  prison  and  a  lazar-den, 
A  place  of  darkness  whence  no  Soul  might  dare 
To  seek  the  golden  Earth  and  heavenly  air, 
Save  fearfully,  with  panting  lips  apart, 
Fearing  the  very  throb  of  his  own  heart 
As  'twere  a  death-knell ;  nay,  this  Jew  set  free 
Disease  and  Pestilence  and  Leprosy 


96  THE    WANDERING  JEW 

To  crawl  like  loathsome  monsters  and  destroy 
Great  Cities  once  alive  with  life  and  joy  ; 
And  of  all  foul  things  fouler  than  the  beasts 
Were  this  Man's  Servants  and  approven  Priests, 
Stenching  the  Cities  wheresoe'er  they  trod, 
Poisoning  the  fountains  in  the  name  of  God. 
Save  for  this  Jew,  a  thousand  years  ago 
Man  might  have  known  what  he  awakes  to  know— 
The  luminous  House  of  flesh  and  blood  most  fair, 
Eainbow'd  from  dust  and  water  and  sweet  air, 
The  green  Earth  round  it,  and  the  Seas  that  roll 
To  cleanse  the  Earth  from  shining  pole  to  pole, 
The  Heavens,  and  Heavens  beyond  without  a  bound, 
The  Stars  in  their  processions  glory-crown'd, 
Each  star  so  vast  that  it  transcends  our  dreams, 
So  small,  a  child  might  grasp  it,  so  it  seems, 
Like  a  light  butterfly  !     The  wondrous  screed 
Of  Nature  open  lay  for  Man  to  read  ; 
World  flashed  to  world,  in  yonder  Void  sublime, 
The  messages  of  Light  and  Change  and  Time ; 


THE    WANDERING  JEW  97 

The  Sea  had  voices,  and  the  Spirit  of  Earth 
Had  sung  her  mystic  runes  of  Death  and  Birth, 
Of  all  the  dim  progressions  Life  had  known, 
And  writ  them  on  the  rocks  in  words  of  stone ; 
Nay,  Man's  own  Soul  was  as  a  mirror,  bright 
With  luminous  changes  of  the  Infinite  ! 
And  yet  Man  rested  blind  beneath  the  sky 
Because  this  Jew  said,  '  Close  thine  eyes,  or  die  ! ' 
Enough — pass  onward  one  by  one,  ye  throng 
Who  sinn'd  thro'  Christ,  or  suffer'd  shame  and  wrong ; 
Stay  not  to  speak — your  faces  shall  proclaim, 
More  loud  than  tongues,  your  martyrdom  and  shame  ! ' 

Ghostwise  they  passed  along  before  my  sight, 
Martyrs  of  truth  and  warriors  of  the  right, 
Some  reverend  and  hoary,  some  most  fair 
With  sunrise  in  their  eyes  and  on  their  hair. 
So  swift  they  came  and  fled,  I  scarce  had  space 
To  note  them,  but  full  many  a  world-famed  face 
Came  like  a  breaking  wave  and  went  again  : 

n 


98  THE    WANDERING  JEW 

JUSTINIAN,  living,  yet  a  corpse,  as  when 

They  tore  him  from  his  tomb ;  old,  gaunt,  and  grey, 

The  Master  of  the  Templars,  Du  MOLAY, 

Clasp'd  by  the  harlot,  Fire, — follow'd  by  pale 

And  martyr'd  warriors  bleeding  'neath  their  mail ; 

ABELAED,  still  erect  on  stubborn  knees 

Facing  the  storms  of  Eome,  and  ELOISE 

Clad  like  an  abbess,  from  his  eyes  of  fire 

Drinking  eternal  passion  and  desire  ; 

KING  FEEDEEICK,  his  step  serene  and  strong 

As  if  he  trod  on  altars,  with  his  throng 

Of  warriors,  Christian  and  Saracen  ; 

Great  ALGAZALLI  and  wise  ALHAZEN, 

White-robed  and  calm,  with  many  a  lesser  man 

Wrapt  in  the  peace  of  lore  Arabian ; 

Pale  PETEAECH,  laurel-crowned,  gazing  on 

The  white  face  of  that  sister  woe-begone 

Who  thro'  the  lust  of  Christ's  own  Vicar  fell ; 

JOHN  Huss,  still  wrapt  around  with  fires  of  Hell, 

Clutching  the  Book  he  bore  with  piteous  tears. 


THE    WANDERING  JEW  99 

Silent  they  pass'd,  the  Martyrs  and  the  Seers, 
Known  and  unknown,  the  Heirs  of  love  and  praise  ; 
And  last,  the  Three,  who  with  undaunted  gaze 
Faced  the  great  Ocean  of  Earth's  mystery, 
Mighty  and  strong  as  when  from  sea  to  sea 
They  sail'd  and  sail'd  ;  DE  GAMA,  following 
COLUMBUS,  who  with  sea-bird's  sleepless  wing 
Flew  on  from  Deep  to  Deep ;  and,  mightiest, 
MAGELLAN,  faring  forward  on  his  quest, 
Putting  the  craven  cowls  of  Borne  to  shame, 
And  lighting  Earth  and  Heaven  with   his  resplendent 
name  ! 


H    2 


ioo  THE    WANDERING  JEW 


XI 

WITH  woe  unutterable,  and  pity  cast 

As  the  still  Heaven  on  which  his  eyes  were  cast, 

That  old  Jew  listen'd,  while  new  voices  cried, 

1  We  too  were  slain,  because  we  testified  ! ' 

But  as  they  pass'd  along  with  waving  brands 

Beneath  him,  he  outstretched  his  trembling  hands 

As  if  to  bless  them,  murmuring  low  yet  clear, 

'  Father  in  Heaven,  where  art  Thou?    Dost  Thou  hear? 

And  at  the  voice  those  Spirits  cried  again, 

'  We  testified  against  thee,  and  were  slam  ! ' 

And  never  down  on  them  his  eyes  were  turn'd, 

But  still  upon  the  silent  Heaven,  that  yearn'd 

Its  heart  of  stars  out  on  his  hoary  head  ! 

Even  as  a  shipwrecked  wight  doth  cling  in  dread 


7 HE    WANDERING  JEW  101 

To  some  frail  spar,  and  seeth  all  around 

The  dark  wild  waters  swelling  without  bound, 

While  momently  the  black  waves  flash  to  foam, 

Ev'n  so  I  saw  the  Spirits  go  and  come 

With  piteous  cries  around  me.     From  all  lands 

They  gather'd,  moaning  low  and  waving  hands, 

Women  and  men  and  naked  little  ones  ; 

And  some  were  dusky-hued  from  flaming  suns 

That  light  the  West  and  East ;  for  lo,  I  knew 

The  hosts  of  Ind,  the  children  of  Peru, 

And  the  black  seed  of  Ham  ;  and  following  these, 

Wan  creatures  bearing  hideous  images 

Of  wood  and  stone ;  yellow  and  black  and  red, 

They  gather'd,  murmuring  as  they  came,  and  fled  ! 

And  all  the  air  was  troubled,  as  when  the  rain 

Maketh  the  multitudinous  leaves  complain 

In  some  deep  forest  solitude,  with  the  stirs 

Of  tutelary  gods  and  worshippers, 

Of  creatures  thronging  thick  as  ants  to  upbuild 

Strange  Temples,  frail  as  ant-heaps,  faintly  filled 


102  THE    WANDERING  JEW 

With  the  first  gleams  of  godhead  chill  and  grey, 
Then  crumbling  into  dust,  and  vanishing  away  ! 

Borne  on  a  purple  litter  came  a  King 
Gold-crown'd,  with  eager  armies  following 
Swift -footed  like  the  pard,  crested  with  plumes 
Of  many-coloured  birds,  and  deck'd  with  blooms 
Of  m  any-colour 'd  flowers  ;  and  as  he  came 
Choirs  of  dark  maidens  sang  in  glad  acclaim, 
'  All  hail  to  MONTEZUMA,  King  and  Lord  ! ' 
And  round  him  dusky  Priests  kept  fierce  accord 
Of  drums  and  cymbals,  till  their  lord  was  borne 
Close  to  the  Throne  ;  and  on  that  Man  forlorn 
Fixing  his  sad,  brown,  antelope's  eyes,  and  lying 
Like  to  a  stricken  deer  sore-spent  and  dying, 
He  cried : 

'  In  the  grassy  West  I  reigned  supreme 
O'er  a  great  Kingdom  wondrous  as  a  dream. 
As  high  as  Heaven  rose  my  palaces, 


THE    WANDERING  JEW  103 

And  fair  as  Heaven  was  the  light  in  these, 
And  out  of  gold  I  ate,  and  gold  and  gems 
Cover'd  me  to  the  very  raiment  hems, 
And  gems  and  gold  miraculously  bright 
Illumed  my  roofs  and  floors  with  starry  light. 
The  wondrous  lama-wool  as  white  as  milk, 
More  soft  and  snowy  than  the  worm's  thin  silk, 
Was  woven  for  my  raiment ;  unto  me 
The  creatures  of  the  Mountains  and  the  Sea 
Were  brought  in  tribute ;  and  from  shore  to  shore 
My  naked  couriers  flew  for  ever,  and  bore 
My  mandate  to  the  lesser  Kings,  my  slaves ; 
Yea,  and  my  throne  was  on  a  thousand  graves, 
And  Death,  obedient  to  my  lifted  hand, 
Smiled  peacefully  upon  a  golden  Land. 
There,  as  I  reigned,  and  millions  blest  my  sway, 
Came  rumours  of  a  fair  God  far  away 
Greater  than  those  I  worshipt,  till  my  throne 
Shook  at  the  coming  of  that  form  unknown  ; 
And  o'er  the  Ocean,  borne  on  flying  things 


J04  THE    WANDERING  JEW 

That  caught  the  winds  and  held  them  in  their  wings, 

Eiding  on  maned  monsters  that  obeyed 

Bridles  of  gold  and  champ'd  the  bit  and  neigh'd, 

Came  this  Man's  followers,  clad  and  shod  with  steel, 

Trampling  my  naked  hosts  with  armed  heel 

And  raising  up  the  Cross  ;  and  me  they  found 

Within  my  shining  palace  sitting  crown'd, 

'Mid  priests  and  slaves  that  trembled  at  my  nod, 

And  bade  me  worship  him,  their  pale  white  God, 

Nailed  upon  a  Tree  and  crucified ; 

And  when  upon  mine  own  strong  gods  I  cried, 

Th,ey  answer'd  not !  nay,  even  when  I  was  cast 

Unto  the  dust,  bound  like  a  slave  at  last, 

Still  they  were  dumb ;  and  tho'  my  people  arose 

Innumerable,  they  were  scattered  even  as  snows 

Before  the  wintry  blast ;  with  sword  and  spear 

The  bloody  Spaniard  hunted  them  like  deer, 

So  that  my  realm  ran  blood  in  this  Man's  name ; 

And  lo !  my  proud  heart  broken  with  its  shame, 

I  died  to  all  my  glory,  and  lay  mute, 


THE   WANDERING  JEW  105 

Defiled,  and  scorn'd,  beneath  the  Spaniard's  foot, 
And  all  my  Kingdom  fell  to  nothingness.' 

He  pass'd,  and  after  him  came  Monarchs  less 

Than  he,  yet  proud  and  mighty, — I  watch'd  them  fly 

Like  flocks  of  antelopes  beneath  the  sky, 

And  harrying  them  the  Hunters  clad  in  mail 

Follow'd,  with  cruel  faces  marble  pale, 

Lifting  the  Cross,  and  speeding  fast  beyond 

My  sight,  on  steeds  with  gold  caparison'd. 

Nor  ceased  the  pageant  yet.     Sceptred  and  crown'd, 
A  King,  with  plumed  legions  wailing  round, 
Stood  up  and  cried  : 

'  The  splendour  of  the  Sun 
Illumed  the  Temples  where  my  rites  were  done, 
And  to  the  Sun-god  who  for  ever  gazed 
With  face  of  gold  upon  my  realm,  I  raised 
The  paean  and  the  prayer.     Beneath  my  rule 


io6  THE    WANDERING  JEW 

The  happy  lands  grew  bright  and  beautiful, 

And  countless  thousands  innocent  of  strife 

Blest  me,  and  that  refulgent  Fount  of  Life. 

Fairer  my  palaces  and  temples  far 

In  sight  of  Heaven  than  Morn  or  Even  Star, 

For  in  them  dwelt  the  quickening  Light  of  him 

Before  whose  glory  every  sphere  is  dim  ! 

Yea,  but  at  last  mine  eyes  did  gaze  upon 

A  blood-star,  rising  o'er  the  horizon 

Out  eastward,  and  before  its  baleful  ray 

The  Sun-god  shrivel'd  and  was  driven  away  ; 

And  leagued  with  iron  monsters  belching  fire, 

And  riding  living  monsters  tame  yet  dire, 

Out  from  the  gulfs  of  sudden  blackness  pour'd 

A  mailed  band  who  called  this  man  their  Lord, 

And  slew  us  ev'n  as  sheep,  and  undertrod 

The  shining  temples  of  the  Sun,  our  God  ; 

Me  too  they  smote  and  slaughter'd,  offering  me, 

Last  of  the  Incas,  to  their  Deity — 

And  Darkness  reign'd  where  once  the  Light  had  shone ! ' 


THE    WANDERING  JEW  107 

Wailing,  he  wrung  his  hands  and  wander'd  on, 
And  after  him  like  bleeding  sheep  a  train 
Of  naked  slaughter'd  things  that  sob'd  in  pain--- 
Midst  them  a  dusky  woman  richly  drest, 
Who  wrung  her  hands  and  smote  her  naked  breast, 
Crying,  '  I  loved  the  soldier  of  this  Jew, 
And  me  he  lusted  for,  then  foully  slew, 
And  wheresoe'er  his  Cross  waved  overhead 
Came  shrieks  of  women  torn  and  ravished  ! ' 
And  round  her  as  she  spake  those  butcher'd  bands 
Of  women  smote  their  breasts  or  wrung  their  hands. 

'  0  shadowy  crowds  of  men,'  the  Accuser  cried, 
'  Dark  naked  women,  children  piteous-eyed, 
All  manacled  and  bleeding,  worn  and  weak, 
How  do  ye  testify  against  him  ?     Speak ! ' 

'  Because,'  they  said,  '  the  radiant  summer  Light 
Had  burnt  our  bodies  and  made  them  black  yet  bright, 
Altho'  our  hearts  within  were  sweet  and  mild, 


io8  THE    WANDERING  JEW 

We  suffered  sorrow,  man  and  wife  and  child : 

Far  in  the  West  we  prayed,  bending  the  knee 

In  Cities  fairer  far  than  Nineveh, 

And  high  as  Heaven  arose  fair  palaces 

Lit  with  the  many  colour 'd  images 

Of  gentle  gods, — but  on  our  shores  there  came 

Devils  that  smote  us  in  this  white  God's  name, 

Our  gods  dethroned,  our  temples  overcast, 

And  scattered  us  as  chaff  before  the  blast. 

This  Jew  looked  on.     His  Priests  piled  gold,  while  we 

Were  basely  slain  or  sold  to  slavery ; 

Tears  worse  than  blood  we  shed,  and  bloodiest  sweat, 

While  on  the  soil,  with  blood  of  millions  wet, 

They  did  upraise  his  Church,  that  rose  on  high 

With  fiery  finger  pointing  at  the  sky 

Where  every  happy  star  had  ceased  to  shine !  ' 


THE    WANDERING  JEW  109 


XII 

'  THOU  hearest,  Jew  ?  ' 

But  Jesus  made  no  sign. 

With  woe  unutterable  and  pity  vast 

As  the  still  Heaven  on  which  his  eyes  were  cast, 

He  listen'd  dumbly,  while  new  voices  cried, 

'  We  too  were  slain,  and  by  his  Priests  we  died  !  ' 

And  like  to  cloud  on  cloud,  blown  by  the  wind 

And  broken,  dusky  swarms  of  Humankind 

Still  came  and  went ;  and  then  rose  wailing  crowds 

Who  bare  the  lighted  candle,  and  in  their  shrouds 

Walk'd  naked-footed  to  the  martyr's  pyre  ; 

With  men  whose  entrails  Famine's  hidden  fire 

Gnaw'd  till  they  shriek'd  aloud  ;  and  everywhere 


o  THE    WANDERING  JEW 

A  cruel  scent  of  carnage  filled  the  air, 

As  countless  armed  legions  of  the  slain 

Koll'd  up  as  if  for  battle  once  again, 

While  o'er  them,  flaming  between  earth  and  sky, 

The  crimson  Cross  was  swung  ! 

All  these  pass'd  by  ; 

Then  Silence  deep  as  Death  fell  suddenly, 
And  all  was  hushed  as  a  rainy  Sea  ! 

Then  came  a  rush  of  hosts  mingled  in  storm 
Confusedly,  and  phantoms  multiform 
That  shriek'd  and  smote  each  other  ! 

'  Behold  them,'  cried 

The  Accuser,  '  Followers  of  the  Crucified  ! 
The  ravening  wolves  of  wrath  that  never  sleep, 
Yet  seek  his  fold  and  call  themselves  his  sheep ! 
Where'er  they  strive,  Murder  and  Madness  dwell, 
And  Earth  is  lighted  with  the  hates  of  Hell ! 


THE    WANDERING  JEW  1 1 r 

Lo,  how  they  love  each  other,  having  heard 
The  crafty  gospel  of  his  broken  Word  ! 
Lo,  how  they  surge  in  everlasting  strife, 
Seeking  the  mirage  of  Eternal  Life  !  ' 

Struggling  unto  the  Judgment  place  they  came, 

Smiting  each  other  in  their  Master's  Name  ; 

Beneath  their  feet  fell  women  stab'd  and  cleft, 

And  little  children  anguishing  bereft. 

And  like  a  Eiver  of  Blood  that  ever  grew, 

They  rush'd  until  they  roll'd  round  that  pale  Jew, 

And  lo !  his  feet  grew  bloody  ere  he  was  'ware  ! 

Yet  still  they  smote  each  other,  and  in  despair 

Shriek'd  out  his  praises  as  they  multiplied 

Their  dead  around  him  .  .  .  And  thus  they  testified  ! 

And  he,  the  Man  Forlorn,  stood  mute  in  woe. 

I  saw  the  white  corpse  of  the  Huguenot 
Float  past  him  on  that  dreadful  Sea  of  Lives  ; 


H2  THE    WANDERING  JEW 

I  saw  the  nun  struck  down  and  gash'd  with  knives 
Ev'n  as  she  told  her  beads ;  I  saw  them  pass, 
The  Martyrs  of  the  Book  or  of  the  Mass, 
Cast  down  and  slain  alike  ;  the  priest  of  Eome 
Fought  with  the  priest  of  Luther,  thrusting  home 
With  venomous  knife  or  sword  ;  and  evermore 
The  Cross  of  Blood  was  wildly  waven  o'er 
The  waves  of  carnage,  till  they  swept  from  sight, 
Moaning  and  rushing  onward  thro'  the  Night. 

Then,  as  the  Storm  seem'd  weeping  itself  away, 
I  saw  two  ghostly  Spirits  looming  grey 
Against  that  dark  Golgotha,  and  one  of  these 
Clung  to  the  other,  and  sank  upon  his  knees. 

'  What  man  art  ihou  ?  ' 

'  JEAN  GALAS.' 

'  He  whose  hands 

Thou,  kneeling,  wettest  -\vith  thy  tears ;  who  stands 
Smiling  upon  the  Accused  ?  ' 


THE    WANDERING  JEW  113 

The  last  replied  : 

'  VOLTAIEE  the  people  named  me.     I  denied 
The  godhead  of  that  Jew,  and  at  his  brow 
Pointed  in  mockery  and  scorn,  as  now  ! 
Pope,  Kings,  and  Priests  shiver'd  like  frighten'd  birds 
Before  the  rain  and  lightning  of  my  words, 
And  crouch'd  with  draggled  plumage,  awed  and  dumb, 
Because  they  deem'd  that  Antichrist  had  come. 
One  day  I  heard  this  man  in  his  poor  home 
Shriek  loud,  encircled  by  the  snakes  of  Eome ; 
And  tho'  their  poison  slew  him,  ere  he  died 
I  crush'd  the  vipers  'neath  my  heel,  and  cried 
"  Thy  woes  shall  be  avenged ;  7  am  here  !  " 
Even  then  a  million  wretches  cast  off  fear, 
And  looking  on  this  man's  seed,  redeem'd  by  me, 
Fear'd  the  foul  Christ  no  longer,  and  grew  free  ! ' 

Thin,  gaunt  and  pale,  around  his  lips  the  ray 
Of  a  cold  scorn,  he  smiled  and  passed  away, 
His  eyes  upon  the  Jew  ;  and  with  him  went 

i 


H4 

Dark  silent  men  whose  musing  eyes  were  bent 

On  open  scrolls ;  and  'mong  them  laughing  stood 

A  King  who  held  a  mimic  Cross  of  wood, 

And  broke  it  o'er  his  knee,  with  a  fierce  jest ; 

So  pass'd  they,  Holbach,  Diderot,  and  the  rest, 

The  foes  of  Godhead  and  the  friends  of  Man ; 

But  after  them  great  crowds  in  tumult  ran, 

Who   waved  their   dark   and  blood-stain'd   arms    and 

shrieked, 

'  We,  who  had  lain  in  darkness,  rose  and  wreak1  d 
Man's  wrath  on  this  false  God,  who  had  scorn'd  our 

prayer 

And  sent  his  Kings  and  Slaves  to  strip  us  bare ! 
Yea,  in  his  Name  the  Harlots  and  the  Priests 
Yoked  us  and  harness'd  us  like  blinded  beasts ; 
And  when  we  cried  for  food  they  proffered 
The  stones  of  his  cold  Gospel  and  not  bread  ; 
And  where  his  blessing  fell  the  foul  found  gold, 
And  where  it  fell  not  we  were  bought  and  sold. 
His  foot  was  on  the  heads  beneath  him  bowed, 


THE    WANDERING  JEW  115 

His  hand  was  with  the  pitiless  and  the  proud, 
His  mercy  failed  us,  but  the  curse  he  gave 
Pursued  our  spirits  even  beyond  the  grave. 
Thus  he  who  had  promised  love  gave  only  hate  ! 
He  spake  of  Heaven  and  made  Earth  desolate  ! 
Thou  didst  at  last  avenge  us,  Spirit  of  Man, 
Through  thee  the  Night  was  cloven  and  Day  began, 
And  on  thine  altars  blood  as  sacrament 
Appal'd  the  Kings  of  Earth  this  God  had  sent ! ' 

Then  once  again  the  Accuser  rose  and  cried  : 
'  The  countless  hosts  of  Dead  have  testified ; 
But  lastly,  to  this  solemn  Judgment-place, 
I  summon  up  the  seed  of  this  Man's  race  ; 
Bear  witness  now,  ye  Jews,  against  this  Jew  ! 


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n6  THE    WANDERING  JEW 


xni 

THEN  instantly,  as  if  some  swift  hand  drew 
A  curtain  back,  the  darkness  of  the  Night 
Was  cloven,  and  thronging  in  the  starry  light 
New  legions  of  the  ghostly  Dead  appear'd, 
And  ever,  as  the  Judgment  Seat  they  near'd, 
They  shriek'd  '  MESSIAH  !  '  and  with  lips  apart, 
Startled  as  if  a  knife  had  prick'd  his  heart, 
That  pale  Jew  listen'd,  and  his  wan  face  turn'd 
To  those  who  cried ;  but  when  those  hosts  discern'd 
His  human  lineaments,  they  shriek'd  anew 
'  One  God  we  worship,  and  this  Man  we  slew, 
Seeing  he  took  the  Holy  Name  in  vain  ! 
And  since  that  hour  that  he  was  justly  slain, 
His  hate  hath  follow'd  us  from  place  to  place  ! 
Wherefore,  0  Judge,  we,  children  of  his  race, 


THE    WANDERING  JEW  117 

Scorn'd,  tortured,  shamed,  defamed,  defiled,  and  driven 
Outcast  from  every  gate  of  Earth  or  Heaven, 
Still  martyr'd  living  and  still  dishonour'd  dead, 
Demand  thy  wrath  and  judgment  on  his  head, 
Jesus  the  Jew,  not  Christ,  but  Antichrist ! ' 

Dumb  as  a  lamb  brought  to  be  sacrificed, 
Helpless  and  bound,  He  listen'd — still  with  gaze 
Fix'd  on  the  starry  azure's  pathless  ways, 
But  down  his  cheeks,  furrow'd  with  weary  years, 
Slowly  and  softly  fell  the  piteous  tears. 

Like  hordes  of  wolves,  fierce,  foul,  and  famishing, 
That  round  some  lonely  Traveller  shriek  and  spring, 
Black'ning  the  snows  around  his  lonely  path, 
Rending  each  other  in  their  hungry  wrath, 
The  children  of  the  Ghetto,  gathering  there, 
His  brethren,  fed  their  eyes  on  his  despair 
And  spat  their  hate  upon  him  ;  and  the  snow 
Was  sooted  with  these  nameless  shapes  of  woe  ; 


n  8  THE    WANDERING  JEW 

But  hither  and  thither,  'mid  the  ravening  horde, 

Moved  Rabbis  who  lookt  upward  and  adored 

The  Lord  of  Hosts,  with  hoary  Saints  and  Seers, 

And  dark-eyed  Maids  who  sang  with  sobs  and  tears 

Of  God's  bright  City  overthrown  in  shame, 

Jerusalem  the  Golden  ! — and  at  the  Name 

The  woeful  throngs  who  roll'd  in  tumult  by 

Rent  robes,  and  wail'd,  and  echoed  back  the  cry 

'  Jerusalem  !  Jerusalem  ! ' — and  lo  ! 

From  'midst  the  multitudinous  ebb  and  flow 

That  ever  came  and  went,  there  did  arise 

A  Prophet,  with  white  beard  and  burning  eyes, 

Saying,  '  Holy,  Holy  still,  thy  Name  shall  be, 

Jerusalem,  thro'  God's  Eternity  ! 

For  tho'  thy  glory  hath  fallen,  and  thy  gate 

Lies  broken,  and  thy  streets  are  desolate, 

And  on  thy  head  ashes  and  dust  are  flung, 

And  in  thy  folds  the  wolf  suckles  her  young, 

Thou  shalt  arise  in  splendour  and  in  pride, 

And  we,  thy  people,  shall  be  justified  1 


THE    WANDERING  JEW  119 

Our  tents  are  scattered,  and  our  robes  are  riven, 

Like  chaff  before  the  blast  our  race  hath  driven 

In  darkness,  ever  homeless,  thro'  the  lands, 

But  never  another  City  by  our  hands 

Hath  been  upbuilded,  since  where'er  we  roam 

Thou,  City  of  God,  art  still  our  Hope  and  Home  ! 

And  tho'  with  bitterest  tears  our  eyes  are  dim, 

We  hearken  ever  for  the  call  of  Him 

Who  thunder'd  upon  Sinai !  ...  In  thy  breast 

This  Snake  who  stings  thee  still  doth  make  his  nest  ! 

This  Son  who  smote  thee,  Mother,  still  doth  lie 

Within  thine  arms  ;•  but  o'er  thee,  yonder  on  high, 

Watches  the  God  of  Jacob  !     Patience  yet ! 

Tho'  for  a  little  space  thy  sun  hath  set, 

As  red  as  blood  it  shall  arise  again 

For  vengeance,  and  the  God  of  Wrath  shall  reign, 

With  thee,  his  Bride  long  chosen,  and  over  us, 

Thy  children  !  ' 

Thronging  multitudinous, 
With  one  great  voice  they  answered  :  '  Holy  be 


120  THE    WANDERING  JEW 

Thy  Name,  Jerusalem,  thro'  Eternity  ! ' 

And  now  their  wailings  sobb'd  themselves  to  calm, 

While  to  a  sound  of  harps  and  lutes  the  psalm 

Of  Israel  rose  to  Heaven — '  Holy  be 

Thy  Name,  Jerusalem,  thro1  Eternity  ! ' 


THE    WANDERING  JEW  121 


XIV 

THEN  said  that  Form  who  sat  in  Judgment : 

'Jew! 

Once  judged  and  slain,  yet  risen  and  judged  anew, 
Thou  hast  heard  the  Accuser  and  his  Witnesses. 
Hast  thou  a  word  to  utter  answering  these  ? 
Hast  thou  a  living  Soul  beneath  the  sky 
To  rise  upon  thy  side  and  testify  ? 
Summon  thy  Witnesses,  if  such  there  be, 
Ere  I  pronounce  the  doom  of  Man  on  thee  ! ' 

The  Jew  gazed  round,  and  wheresoe'er  his  gaze 
Shed  on  that  throng  its  gentle  suffering  rays, 
Tumult  and  wrath  were  hush'd,  as  in  deep  Night 
Great  waves  lie  down  to  lap  the  starry  light 
And  lick  the  Moon's  cold  feet  that  touch  the  Sea. 


122  THE    WANDERING  JEW 

'  I  have  no  word  to  answer,'  murmured  He, 
'  The  winter  of  mine  age  hath  come,  and  lo  ! 
My  heart  within  sinks  'neath  its  weight  of  woe  ! 
So  faint  and  far-removed  all  seems  to  be, 
I  seem  the  ghost  of  mine  own  Deity, 
The  apparition  of  myself,  and  not 
A  living  thing  with  will  or  strength  or  thought ! 
Yet  I  remember  (here  his  piteous  eyes 
Search'd  the  bare  Heavens  again  with  dim  surmise), 
Yet  I  remember,  on  this  my  Judgment  Day, 
Not  what  is  near,  but  what  is  far  away. 
Within  my  Father's  House  I  fell  to  sleep 
In  dreamless  slumber  mystical  and  deep, 
And  when  I  waken'd,  to  mine  own  faint  crying, 
Above  the  cradle  small  where  I  was  lying 
A  Mother's  face  hung  like  a  star,  and  smiled. 

'  Transform'd  into  the  likeness  of  a  child, 
Feebly  I  drank  the  milk  of  mortal  being ; 
But  as  the  green  world  brightened  to  my  seeing 


THE    WANDERING  JEW  123 

And  the  round  arc  of  air  closed  over  me, 
The  Land  beyond  grew  dark  to  memory, 
And  I  forgot  my  former  dwelling-place, 
The  Life  Eternal,  and  my  Father's  Face. 
Closer  and  darker,  as  the  summers  flew, 
The  folds  of  flesh  around  my  spirit  grew, 
Shutting  that  heavenly  Mansion  from  my  sight, 
Save  oftentimes  in  visions  of  the  night 
When  for  a  space  I  slept  the  sleep  of  earth  ; 
But  since  that  moment  of  my  mortal  birth, 
I  have  not  seen  my  Father,  and  now  he  seems 
More  faint  than  any  form  beheld  in  dreams '. ' 

He  paused,  uplifting  still  his  weary  gaze 
To  search  the  empty  Heaven's  pathless  ways 
For  miracle  and  token,  then  was  dumb. 

'  Thy  quest  hath  fail'd,  thy  Kingdom  hath  not  come, 
The  dark  Judge  said  ;  '  thy  promise  was  a  Lie — 
Thy  Witnesses  ?  ' 


124  THE    WANDERING  JEW 

And  Jesus  made  reply : 
'  Hosts  of  the  happy  Dead  whom  I  have  blest !  ' 

'  Call — let  them  come ! ' 

'  I  would  not  break  their  rest.' 

'  Thou  hast  lied  to  them,  0  Jew  ! '  the  dark  Judge  cried. 
And  Jesus  said,  '  0  Judge,  I  have  not  lied ! ' 

'  False  was  thy  promise — false  and  mad  and  drear. 
There  is  no  Father  ! ' 

'  Father,  dost  Thou  hear  ? ' 

'  Enough — renew  thy  miracles,  and  prove 
Thy  words,  0  Jew  !     From  yonder  Void  above 
Summon  the  Form,  the  Face,  in  all  men's  eyes, 
And  we  absolve  thee  ! ' 


THE    WANDERING  JEW  125 

On  the  starry  skies, 

Still  thinly  shrouded  with  the  falling  snow, 
He  fix'd  his  wistful  gaze,  and  answer'd  low, 
'  I  bide  my  Father's  time  ! ' 


126  THE    WANDERING  JEW 


XV 

THEN,  as  he  bent 

His  brow  like  one  who  kneels  for  sacrament, 
And  on  his  feeble  form  and  hoary  head 
The  benediction  of  the  Night  was  shed, 
Methought  I  saw  a  Shape  behind  him  stand, 
Grim  as  a  godhead  graven  in  brass,  his  hand 
Uplifted,  and  his  wrinkled  face  set  stern, 
While  terrible  his  deep  black  eyes  did  burn 
In  scornful  wrath.     Naked  as  any  stone 
He  stood,  save  for  a  beast's  skin  loosely  thrown 
Around  his  dusky  shoulders,  and  he  said : 

'  Tny  Witnesses  ? — Lord  of  the  Quick  and  Dead, 
Call  them,  and  they  shall  come  !     /  first,  who  stood 
And  prophesied  by  Jordan's  rolling  flood, 


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And  saw  thee  shining  o'er  the  throng  on  me, 
Thro'  the  white  cloud  of  thy  Humanity, 
And  knew  thee  in  a  moment  by  those  eyes 
Full  of  the  peace  of  our  lost  Paradise  ! 
Master  and  Lord  of  Life,  these  hands  of  mine 
Baptized  thee,  blest  thee,  hailed  thee  most  Divine, 
Long  promised,  the  Messiah  ! — and  tho'  thy  brow 
Is  furrowed  deep  with  years,  I  know  thee  now, 
And  in  the  name  of  all  thou  wast  and  art, 
God's  substance,  of  the  living  God  a  part, 
Bear  witness  still,  as  I  bare  witness  then, 
Before  this  miserable  race  of  men  !  ' 

Then  saw  I,  as  he  ceased  and  stood  aside, 

Another  Spirit  fair  and  radiant-eyed, 

Who,  creeping  thither,  at  the  Jew's  feet  fell, 

And  looking  up  with  love  ineffable 

Cried  '  Master !  '  and  I  knew  that  I  beheld, 

Tho'  his  face,  too,  was  worn  and  grey  with  eld, 

That  other  John  whom  Jesus  to  his  breast 


128  THE    WANDERING  JEW 

Drew  tenderly,  because  he  loved  him  best  ! 
But  even  as  I  gazed,  my  soul  was  stirred 
By  other  Shapes  that  stole  without  a  word 
Out  of  the  silent  dark,  and  kneeling  low 
Stretched  out  loving  hands  and  wept  in  woe : 
The  gentle  Mother  of  God  grown  grey  and  old, 
Her  silver  hair  still  thinly  sown  with  gold, 
Mary  the  wife,  and  Mary  Magdalen 
Who  murmur 'd  '  Lord,  behold  thy  Handmaiden,' 
And  kiss'd  his  feet,  her  face  so  sadly  fair 
Hid  in  the  shadows  of  her  snow-strewn  hair ; 
And  close  to  them,  as  thick  as  stars,  appear'd 
Faces  of  children  brightening  as  they  near'd 
The  presence  of  their  Father  ;  and  following  these 
Pallid  Apostles  falling  upon  their  knees, 
Crying  '  Messiah! — Master — we  are  here  ! ' 

As  some  poor  famish'd  wight  doth  take  good  cheer 
Seeing  an  open  door  and  one  who  stands 
Upon  the  threshold  with  outstretched  hands 


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That  welcome  him  to  some  well-laden  board, 

That   Wanderer    brightened,    while   they   murmur'd 

'  Lord ! 
We  are  thy  Witnesses  in  all  men's  sight ! ' 

Feebly  yet  happily  he  rose  his  height, 
And  even  as  a  Shepherd  grave  and  old 
Who  smiles  upon  his  flock  within  the  fold, 
He  shone  upon  them  till  that  sad  place  seemed 
Fair  as  a  starry  night ;  and  still  they  stream'd 
Out  of  the  shadows,  passionately  crying 
Upon  the  Name  Beloved  and  testifying, 
Till  the  dark  Earth  forgot  its  sorrowing 
And  grew  as  glad  as  Heaven  opening  ! 

Then  one  cried  (and  I  knew  him,  for  his  face 
Was  dark  and  proud,  yet  lit  with  dews  of  grace, 
And  like  an  organ's  peal  his  strong  voice  rang 
With  solemn  echoes  as  of  Saints  that  sang), 
'  Thy  Witnesses  ?    Father  of  all  that  be, 

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130  THE    WANDERING  JEW 

I  persecuted  those  who  followed  thee, 

Thy  remnant,  till  thy  fire  from  out  the  sky 

Smote  me,  and  as  I  fell  I  heard  thee  cry, 

"  Saul,  Saul !  " — and  shook  as  at  the  touch  of  Death  ;  ' 

But  on  my  face  and  eyelids  came  thy  breath 

To  make  me  whole ;  and  lo  !  I  sheathed  the  sword, 

And  girded  up  my  loins  to  preach  thy  Word. 

And  the  World  listen'd,  while  the  heathen  praised 

Thy  glory,  and  believed  ;  and  I  upraised 

Temples  of  marble  where  thy  flocks  might  pray, 

And  where  no  Temple  was  from  day  to  day 

I  made  the  Earth  thy  Temple,  and  the  sky 

A  roof  for  thy  Beloved.     Lamb  of  God, 

Thy  blood  redeemed  the  Nations,  while  I  trode 

The  garden  of  thy  gospel,  bearing  thence 

Strange  flowers  of  Love  and  holy  Innocence, 

And  setting  up  aloft  for  all  to  see 

Thy  Huleh-lilies,  Faith,  Hope,  Charity  ; 

And  of  these  three  I  knew  the  last  was  best 

Because,  like  thee,  dear  Lord,  'twas  lowliest ! 


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Thy  Witnesses  ?     Countless  as  desert  sands 
Their  bones  are  scatter'd  o'er  the  seas  and  lands  ! 
Whene'er  the  Lamp  of  Life  hath  sunken  low, 
Whene'er  Death  beckon'd  and  'twas  time  to  go, 
Where'er  dark  Pestilence  and  Disease  had  crawl'd, 
Where'er  the  Soul  was  darken'd  and  appal'd, 
Where  mothers  wept  above  their  dead  first-born, 
Where  children  to  green  graves  brought  gifts  forlorn 
Of  flowers  and  tears,  where,  struck  'spite  helm  and  shield, 
Pale  warriors  moan'd  upon  the  battlefield, 
Where  Horror  thicken'd  as  a  spider's  mesh 
Eound  plague- smit  men  and  lepers  foul  of  flesh, 
Where  Love  and  Innocence  were  brought  to  shame, 
And  Life  forgot  its  conscience  and  its  aim, 
Thy  blessing,  even  as  Light  from  far  away, 
Came  bright  and  radiant  upon  eyes  of  clay 
And  turn'd  the  tears  of  pain  to  tears  of  bliss  ! 
Nay,  more,  to  Death  itself  thy  loving  kiss 
Brought  consecration  ;  he,  that  Angel  sad, 
Ban  like  a  Lamb  beside  thee,  and  was  glad 


132  THE    WANDERING  JEW 

Uplooking  in  thy  face  ! ' 

He  ceased,  and  lo ! 

Like  warriors  gathering  when  the  trumpets  blow, 
Shapes  of  dead  Saints  arose,  a  shining  throng, 
And  standing  in  their  shrouds  upraised  the  song 
'  Hosannah  to  the  Lord  !  ' — Faint  was  the  cry 
Withering  on  the  wind  as  if  to  die, 
And  loud  as  clarion- winds  above  the  sound 
Shrill'd  the  fierce  anger  of  the  hosts  around ; 
And  while  before  the  Storm  his  head  was  bowed 
They  rose  like  ocean  waves  and  clamour'd  aloud 
For  judgment  on  the  Jew  ! 


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XVI 

FAB  as  the  sight 

Could  penetrate  the  blackness  of  the  Night, 
Stretched  the  multitudinous  living  Sea, 
The  angry  waters  of  Humanity, 
And  lo  !  their  voice  was  as  the  ocean's  roar 
Thund'rously  beating  on  some  sleepless  shore  ; 
And  he,  the  Man  Divine,  whose  eyes  were  dim 
With  shining  down  on  those  who  worshipt  him, 
Seem'd  as  a  lonely  pharos  on  a  rock, 
Firm  in  its  place,  yet  shaken  by  the  shock, 
And  ever  blinded  by  the  pitiless  foam 
Of  waves  that  surge  and  thunder  as  they  come ! 

And  as  I  have  seen,  on  some  lone  ocean-isle 
Where  never  Summer  lights  or  flowers  may  smile, 


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But  where  the  fury  of  the  Tempest  blows, 
The  ocean  birds  in  black  and  shivering  rows 
Huddle  along  the  rocks ;  now  one,  alone, 
Plunges  upon  the  whirlwind,  and  is  blown 
Hither  and  thither  as  a  straw,  and  then 
Struggles  back  feebly  to  his  rocky  den, 
There  still  to  shiver  and  eye  the  dreadful  flood 
And  with  his  comrades  hungering  for  food 
Euffle  the  feathery  crest  and  brood  in  fear : — 
Ev'n  so,  those  lonely  Saints,  who  gather'd  near 
The  Man  forlorn,  seem'd  to  the  Sea  of  Life 
Which  rose  around  with  ceaseless  stress  and  strife, 
And  ever  one  of  these,  as  if  to  face 
The  angry  blast,  would  flutter  from  his  place, 
And  driven  hither  and  thither  be  backward  blown, 
And  fall  again  with  faint  despairing  moan 
At  his  sad  Master's  feet ! 

Then  as  the  Storm 
Eaged  ever  louder  round  his  lonely  form, 


THE    WANDERING  JEW  135 

The  Jew  uplifted  hands  and  cried  aloud ! 

And  in  a  moment,  Darkness  like  a  cloud 
Cover'd  him,  the  great  whirlwinds  ceased  to  roar, 
And  all  those  Waves  of  Life  were  still  once  more. 


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XVII 

THEN  said  that  Form  who  sat  in  Judgment  there  : 

*  Ye  saw  a  mirage  and  ye  thought  it  fair, 

He  brought  a  gospel  and  ye  found  it  sweet, 

Yea,  deemed  it  heavenly  manna  and  did  eat, 

Yet  were  ye  empty  still  and  never  fed. 

This  man  has  given  ye  husks  to  eat,  not  bread. 

He  said  "  There  is  no  Death  !  "  yet  Death  doth  reign. 

He  promised  you  a  gift  no  man  may  gain, 

Yea,  Life  that  shall  endure  eternally, 

And  told  ye  of  a  God  no  eye  shall  see, 

Because  He  is  not !     Bid  him  lift  his  hand 

And  show  the  Life  Divine  and  Heavenly  Land, 

Bid  him  arise  and  take  his  Throne  and  reign  ! 

He  cannot,  for  he  knoweth  he  dream 'd  in  vain, 


THE    WANDERING  JEW  137 

And  empty  of  his  hope  he  stands  at  last, 
Now  the  full  measure  of  his  power  hath  passed. 
Not  yours  the  sin,  poor  Shadows  of  the  Dead, 
Not  yours  the  shame,  which  rests  upon  his  head 
As  dust  and  ashes.     Back  to  your  graves,  and  sleep  ! 
We  judge  the  Shepherd,  not  the  blameless  sheep 
Who  gather'd  on  the  heights  to  hear  his  voice 
Cry  down  to  deep  on  deep  "  Eejoice  !  rejoice  !  " 
Fringe  of  his  raiment  that  is  riven  and  rent, 
Breath  of  his  nostrils  that  is  lost  and  spent, 
Thin  echoes  of  his  voice  from  out  the  tomb, 
Go  by.     This  Man  is  ours,  to  judge  and  doom.' 

He  spake  ;  and  quietly,  without  a  word, 
The  Christ  bow'd  down  his  head,  but  those  who  heard, 
His  remnant,  wringing  hands  and  making  moan, 
Cried  :  '  Lord,  thou  hearest  ?     Speak — and  take  thy 

Throne ! 

Still  these  wild  waters  of  Humanity, 
Walking  thereon,  as  once  on  Galilee  ! 


138  THE    WANDERING  JEW 

Our  graves  lie  open  yonder,  but  we  are  fain 
To  wake  with  thee  and  never  to  sleep  again — 
Unfold  Thy  Heavens,  and  bid  these  clouds  give  place, 
That  we  may  look  upon  the  Father's  face ! ' 

And  Jesus  answer'd  not,  but  shook  and  wept. 

Then  the  grey  Mother  to  his  bosom  crept, 
And  with  her  thin  hands  touch'd  his  sad  grey  hair, 
Saying  '  My  Son,  my  First-born  !     Let  me  share 
Thy  failure  or  Thy  glory  !     Free  or  bound, 
Cast  down  into  the  dust  or  throned  and  crown'd, 
Thou  art  still  my  Son !  '  and  kneeling  at  his  feet, 
That  other  Mary,  gazing  up  to  meet 
The  blessing  of  his  eyes,  cried  '  Holy  be 
Thy  Name,  for  all  the  joy  it  brought  to  me  ! 
Not  for  thy  Godhead  did  I  hold  thee  dear, 
Not  for  thy  Father,  who  hath  left  thee  here 
Helpless,  unpitied,  homeless  'neath  the  skies, 
But  for  the  human  love  within  thine  eyes  ! 


THE    WANDERING  JEW  139 

And  wheresoe'er  thou  goest,  howsoe'er 

Thou  fallest,  tho'  it  be  to  Hell's  despair, 

I,  thy  poor  handmaid,  still  would  follow  thee, 

For  in  thy  face  is  Love's  Eternity, 

And  tho'  thou  art  of  all  the  World  bereaven, 

Still,  where  thou  art,  Beloved,  there  is  Heaven  ! ' 

As  some  white  Alpine  peak,  wrapt  round  with  cloud, 

Suddenly  sweeps  aside  its  clinging  shroud 

Of  gloomy  mists  and  vapours  dark  and  chill, 

And  shines  in  lonely  splendour  clear  and  still, 

With  gleams  of  stainless  ice  and  snow  thrice  shriven, 

Against  the  azure  of  the  opening  Heaven, 

So  that  the  soul  is  shaken  unaware 

With  that  new  glory  desolately  fair, — 

E'en  so  the  Christ,  uprising  suddenly 

To  loneliness  of  lofty  sovereignty, 

Cast  off  the  darkness  of  despair  and  tower'd 

High  o'er  the  shadows  that  beneath  him  cower'd  \ 

Then  all  was  hush'd,  while  on  his  hoary  head 


140  THE    WANDERING  JEW 

Light  from  a  million  spheres  was  softly  shed, 
Fire  from  a  million  worlds  that  lit  the  Night 
Fell  on  his  face  miraculously  bright, 
And  even  that  Judge  who  watch'd  him  from  afar 
Seem'd  but  a  storm-cloud  shrinking  'neath  a  Star  ! 
And  thus,  while  heavenly  anger  lit  his  cheek 
As  still  sheet-lightning  lights  the  snowy  peak, 
He  answered: 

*  Woe  !  eternal  Woe  !  be  yours 
Who  scorn  the  Eternal  Pity  which  endures 
While  all  things  else  pass  by !     Your  lips  did  thirst — 
I  brought  ye  water  from  the  Founts  which  burst 
Beneath  the  bright  tread  of  my  Father's  feet ! 
Ye  hunger'd,  and  I  brought  ye  food  to  eat — 
Manna,  not  husks  or  ashes  :  these  ye  chose, 
And  me,  the  living  Christ,  ye  bruised  with  blows 
And  would  have  slain  once  more,  and  evermore  ! 
Ye  revell'd,  and  I  moan'd  without  your  door 
Outcast  and  cold ;  ye  sinned  hi  my  Name, 
And  flung  me  then  the  raiment  of  your  shame  ; 


THE    WANDERING  JEW  141 

Ye  turn'd  the  heart  of  the  Eternal  One 

'Gainst  you,  his  children,  and  'gainst  me,  his  Son, 

So  that  my  promise  grew  a  dream  forlorn, 

And  all  I  sow'd  in  love,  ye  reapt  in  scorn. 

Woe  to  ye  all !  and  endless  Woe  to  Me 

Who  deem'd  that  I  could  save  Humanity  ! 

The  Father  knew  men  better  when  He  sent 

His  angel  Death  to  be  his  instrument 

And  smite  them  ever  down  as  with  a  sword  ! 

Instead  of  Death,  I  offer'd  ye  my  Word, 

My  Light,  my  Truth,  my  Life  ! — I  wasted  breath, 

For  though  I  gave  ye  these,  ye  turn'd  to  Death  ! 

And  I,  your  Lord,  for  love  of  you,  denied 

My  Soul  the  sleep  it  sought,  and  rose  to  guide 

Your  footsteps  to  the  Land  we  ne'er  shall  gain, 

Because  at  last  I  know  my  Dream  was  vain  ! 

I  plough'd  the  rocks,  and  cast  in  rifts  of  stone 

The  seeds  of  Life  Divine  that  ne'er  have  grown  ; 

I  labour'd  and  I  labour,  last  and  first, 

Within  a  barren  Vineyard  God  hath  curst ; 


142  THE    WANDERING  JEW 

And  now  the  Winter  of  mine  age  is  here, 
And  one  by  one  like  leaves  ye  disappear, 
While  I,  a  blighted  Tree,  abide  to  show 
The  Woe  of  all  Mankind,  the  eternal  Woe 
Which  I,  your  Lord,  must  share  !  ' 

Even  so  he  spake, 

Pallid  in  wrath ;  but  as  low  murmurs  wake 
Under  the  region  of  the  Peak,  and  rise 
To  thunders  answered  from  the  thund'ring  skies, 
While  cataract  cries  to  cataract,  and  o'erhead 
Heaven  darkens  into  anger  deep  and  dread, 
Cries  from  the  shadowy  legions  answer'd  him, 
Wild  voices  wail'd,  and  all  the  Void  grew  dim 
With  cloud  on  cloud.     So  that  serene  sad  Face 
Was  blotted  out  of  vision  for  a  space, 
And  out  of  darkness  on  that  radiant  form 
Sprang  the  fierce  pards  and  panthers  of  the  Storm  ! 
Then  the  Earth  trembled,  and  the  crimson  levin 
Shot  swift  and  lurid  o'er  the  vaults  of  Heaven, 


THE    WANDERING  JEW  143 

And  thunder  answer'd  thunder  with  crash  on  crash 
As  beast  doth  beast,  but  at  each  lightning-flash 
I  saw  him  standing  pale  and  terrible, 
Unscath'd  yet  swathen  as  with  fire  from  Hell ! 

But  lo,  from  out  the  darkness  round  his  feet 
There  came  a  voice  most  passionately  sweet 
Crying  '  Adonai !  Lord  !     Forgive  us,  even 
Altho'  our  sins  be  seventy  times  seven  ! 
Comfort  the  remnant  of  thy  flock,  and  bless 
Thy  Well  Beloved  ! ' — and  my  Soul  could  guess 
Whose  voice  had  call'd,  for  at  the  voice's  sound 
He  trembled  and  he  reach'd  towards  the  ground 
With  eager  trembling  hands ;  and  at  the  touch 
Of  her  who  had  loved  not  wisely,  but  too  much, 
His  force  fell  from  him,  and  he  wept  aloud, 
While  heavily  his  hoary  head  was  bowed 
In  utter  impotence  of  Deity  ! 


144  THE    WANDERING  JEW 


XVIII 

EVEN  then,  methought,  that  angry  living  Sea 

Surged  round  him,  and  again  I  did  discern 

The  Phantoms  of  Golgotha  ! — Soldiers  stern 

"Who  pointed  with  their  spears  and  pricked  him  on, 

While  on  his  shoulders  drooping  woe-begone 

They  thrust  the  great  black  Cross  !     Upon  his  head 

A  crown  of  thorns  was  set,  and  dript  its  red 

Dark  drops  upon  his  brow,  while  loud  they  cried 

'  Lo,  this  is  Jesus  whom  we  crucified, 

And  lo,  he  hath  risen,  and  shall  die  once  more  ! ' 

And  as  a  waif  is  cast  on  some  dark  shore 

By  breaking  waves  of  Ocean  and  is  ta'en 

Back  by  the  surge  again  and  yet  again, 

Even  so  the  Man  was  tost,  till  he  lay  prone, 

Breathless,  a  ragged  heap,  beneath  the  Throne. 


THE    WANDERING  JEW  145 

Golgotha !     Like  the  very  Hill  of  Death, 
Skull-shapen,  yet  a  living  thing  of  breath, 
The  dark  Judge  loom'd,  with  orbs  of  fateful  flame, 
And  motion'd  back  the  crying  crowd  that  came 
Shrieking  for  judgment  on  that  holy  head  ; 
And  lo,  they  faltered  back  ! 

Then  the  Voice  said  : 
'  Arise,  0  Jew  ! ' 

And  Jesus  rose. 

'  Again 
Take  up  thy  Cross ! ' 

Calm,  with  no  moan  of  pain, 
Jesus  took  up  the  Cross.     While  'neath  its  load 
He  shook  as  if  to  fall,  his  white  hair  snow'd 
Around  his  woeful  face  and  wistful  eyes ! 

While  thus  he  stood,  bowed  down  in  pain,  the  cries 
Of  those  who  loved  him  pierced  his  suffering  heart. 
Trembling  he  heard  again,  with  lips  apart 

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1 46  THE    WANDERING  JEW 

And  listening  eyes,  the  faithful  remnant  moan  : 
'  Adonai !     Lord  and  Master  !     Take  thy  Throne, 
And  claim  thy  Kingdom  ! '  but  with  clamorous  sound 
Of  laughter  fierce  and  mad  the  cry  was  drowned, 
And  at  his  naked  breast  the  forked  light 
Stabb'd  like  a  knife,  while  thro'  the  gulfs  of  Night 
The  thunders  roar'd  ! 

Trembling  at  last  he  rose, 
And  as  a  wind-srnit  tree  shakes  off  the  snows 
That  cling  upon  its  boughs,  he  gathered 
His  strength  together,  and  with  lifted  head 
Gazed  at  his  Judge  ;  and  lo,  again  the  storm 
Of  darkness  ebbed  away  and  left  his  Form 
Serene  and  luminous  as  an  Alpine  peak 
Shining  above  these  valleys  !     On  his  cheek 
The  sheeted  light  gleam'd  softly,  while  on  high 
The  silent  azure  open'd  like  an  eye 
And  gazed  upon  him,  pitilessly  fair. 


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So  round  about  him  as  he  waited  there 
Silence  like  starlight  fell,  till  suddenly, 
Like  surge  innumerable  of  one  great  Sea, 
A  million  voices  moaned,  '  Speak  now  his  Doom ! r 


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XIX 

THEN,  pointing  with  dark  finger  thro'  the  gloom 

On  him  who  stood  erect  with  hoary  head, 

The  Judge  gazed  down  with  dreadful  eyes,  and  said 


And  the  Jew  answer'd,  while  the  heavenly  blue 
Fill'd  like  an  eye  with  starry  crystal  tears, 
'  Far  have  I  wander'd  thro'  the  sleepless  years- 
Be  pitiful,  0  Judge,  and  let  me  die  ! ' 

'  Death  to  him,  Death  ! '  I  heard  the  voices  cry 
Of  that  great  Multitude.    But  the  Voice  said : 


THE    WANDERING  JEW  149 

'Nay! 

Death  that  brought  peace  thyself  didst  seek  to  slay  ! 
Death  that  was  merciful  and  very  fair, 
Sweet  dove-eyed  Death  that  hush'd  the  Earth's  despair, 
Death  that  shed  balm  on  tired  eyes  like  thine, 
Death  that  was  Lord  of  Life  and  all  Divine, 
Thou  didst  deny  us,  offering  instead 
The  Soul's  fierce  famine  that  can  ne'er  be  fed — 
Death  shall  abide  to  bless  all  things  that  be, 
But  evermore  shall  turn  aside  from  thee — 
Hear  then  thy  Doom  ! ' 

He  paused,  while  all  around 
The  Sea  of  Life  lay  still  without  a  sound, 
And  on  the  Man  Divine,  Death's  King  and  Lord, 
The  sacrament  of  heavenly  Light  was  pour'd. 

'  Since  thou  hast  quicken'd  what  thou  canst  not  kill, 

Awaken'd  famine  thou  canst  never  still, 

Spoken  in  madness,  prophesied  in  vain, 

And  promised  what  no  thing  of  clay  shall  gain, 


150  THE    WANDERING  JEW 

Thou  shalt  abide  while  all  things  ebb  and  flow, 
Wake  while  the  weary  sleep,  wait  while  they  go, 
And  treading  paths  no  human  feet  have  trod 
Search  on  still  vainly  for  thy  Father,  God ; 
Thy  blessing  shall  pursue  thee  as  a  curse 
To  hunt  thee,  homeless,  thro'  the  Universe  ; 
No  hand  shall  slay  thee,  for  no  hand  shall  dare 
To  strike  the  godhead  Death  itself  must  spare  ! 
With  all  the  woes  of  Earth  upon  thy  head, 
Uplift  thy  Cross,  and  go.     Thy  Doom  IB  said.' 


THE    WANDERING  JEW  151 


XX 

AND  lo  !  while  all  men  come  and  pass  away, 
That  Phantom  of  the  Christ,  forlorn  and  grey, 
Haunteth  the  Earth  with  desolate  footfall.  .  .  , 

God  help  the  Christ,  that  Christ  may  help  us  all ! 


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'The  dumb  wistful  yearning  in  man  to  somethirg  higher — yearning  such  as  the 
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The  TAOEBLATT  (Berlin)  says  :  '  We  have  again  to  thank  Robert  Buchanan  for  a 
pof  in  tbat  stands  out  from  the  chaos  of  books  and  booklets.  It  is  stimulating,  spiritual, 
entrancing — really  a  "  rhjnie  for  the  time,"  with  its  restless  striving  and  its  pessimism. 
We  feel  inclined  to  believe  that  the  spirit  of  Don  Juan  and  Cain  speaks  to  us  once  mote. 
Epigrammatic  point,  clever  word-play,  piquancy,  home-hitting  satire.' 

The  STAB  says  :  '  Buchanan  is  a  spiritualist  in  a  world  of  materialists.  In  this  is  his 
significance,  and  in  this  he  stands  side  by  ride  with  the  greatest  poets  of  our  time,  with 
him  who  has  just  left  us,  and  with  "  the  Master  yonder  in  the  Isle." ' 

VANITY  FAIK  says  :  '  A  very  remarkable  production.  The  audacity  of  its  reflections 
is  little  short  of  astounding.  The  poem  is  a  brilliant  piece  of  work.' 

The  OBSERVER  says  :  •  The  best  work  Mr.  Buchanan  has  given  ns.  It  is  plain  speak- 
ing in  a  very  pretty  language,  and  with  a  good  story  to  tell.  Let  it  be  said  at  once 
that  the  poem  is  written  for  grown  men  and  women,  not  for  children,  and  that  it  is 
a  clever,  interesting,  and  intelligent  production.' 

The  ILLUKTBATED  SrOBTixo  AND  DRAMATIC  NEWS  says :  ' Occupied  all  day  and 
much  amused  with  reading  Buchanan's  "  Outcast "  .  .  .1  revelled  in  the  work  because, 
in  the  first  place,  it  is  dramatically  interesting  ;  and,  secondly,  it  is  so  wild,  vigorous, 
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affords  them  of  brickheaving  and  slating.  .  .  .  The  first  tale  is  very  beautiful,  and 
shows  that  Mr.  Buchanan  s  liana  has  lo  t  none  of  its  poetic  cunning.  Tue  book  contains 
a  fine  criticism  of  life  and  all  its  interests,  and  is  phenomenally  clever.' 
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The  World  Went  Very  Well  Then. 
For  Faith  and  Freedom. 


Dorothy  Forster. 
Uncle  Jack. 
Children  of  Gibeon. 
Bell  of  St.  Paul's. 
To  Call  Her  Mine. 


The  Holy  Rose. 
Armorel  of  Lyon- 

esse. 
St.  Katharine's  by 

the  Tower. 


By  BOBEBT   BUCHANAN. 

The  Shadow  of  the  Sword.    |     Matt. 
A  Child  of  Nature.  [     Heir  of  Linne. 
The  Martyrdom  of 
God  and  the  Man. 
Love  Me  for  Ever. 
Annan  Water. 


Madeline. 
The  New  Abelard. 
Foxglove  Manor. 
Master  of  the  Mine. 
By  HALL   CAINE. 


The  Shadow  of  a  Crime. 

A  Son  of  Hagar.      |  The  Deemster. 

JV1ORT.  &  FRANCE  S  COLLINS. 

Transmigration. 

From  Midnight  to  Midnight. 

Blacksmith  and  Scholar. 

Village  Comedy.     |  You  Play  He  False. 


By  WILKIE    COLLINS. 

Armadale.  The  Frozen  Deep. 

After  Dark.  The  Two  Destinies. 

No  Name.  Law  and  the  Lady 

Antonina.  |  Basil      Haunted  Hotel. 
Hide  and  Seek.          The  Fallen  Leaves. 
The  Dead  Secret.       Jezebel's  Daughter. 
Queen  of  Hearts.       The  Black  Robe. 
My  Miscellanies.       Heart  and  Science. 
Woman  in  White.    "I  Say  No." 
The  Moonstone.         Little  Novels. 
Man  and  Wife.          The  Evil  Genius. 
Poor  Miss  Finch.       The  Legacy  of  Cain 
Miss  or  Mrs?  A  Rogue's  Life. 

New  Magdalen.          Blind  Love. 
By  BUTTON   COOK. 
Paul  Foster's  Daughter. 

By  MATT    CROI. 
Adventures  of  a  Fair  Rebel. 

By  W1LLIAJTI    CIHPLES. 

Hearts  of  Gold. 

By  ALPIIONSE   DAUDET. 

The  Evangelist;  or,  Port  Salvation. 

By  ERAS71U3    OAWSON. 

The  Fountain  of  Youth. 

By  JAIUES  DE  MILLE. 

A  Castle  in  Spain. 

By  J.  LEIT1I  DERWENT. 

Our  Lady  of  Tears.  |     Circe's  Lovers. 

By  DICK.  DONOVAN. 

Tracked  to  Doom. 

By  ITIrs.  ANNIE  EDWARDE9. 

Archie  Lovell. 

By  G.  MANVILLE   FENN. 

The  New  Mistress. 

By  PERCY   FITZGER  '.LD. 

Fatal  Zero. 

By  R.  E.  FRANCILS,<  V. 


A  Real  Qu.xn. 
King  or  Knave 


Sueen  Cophetua. 
ne  by  One. 
Prcf.bySirBARTLE  FRERE. 
Pandurang  Harl. 

By  EDWARD   GABBETT, 
The  Capsl  Girls. 


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Robin  Gray.  I  The  Golden  Shaft. 

Loving  a  Dream.    |  Of  High  Degree. 
The  Flower  of  the  Forest. 

Ky  ic.  <;LA:\VILLE. 
The  Lost  Heiress. 
The  Fossicker. 

By  <  i:<  1 1-   ORIFFITH. 
Corinthia  Marazion. 

Ky  T1IO.TI  AS    II  \KDY. 
Under  the  Greenwood  Tree. 

By   IJIJi:  I     HAUTE. 
A  Waif  of  the  Plains. 
A  Ward  of  the  Golden  Gate. 
A  Sappho  of  Green  Springs. 
Colonel  Starbottle's  Client. 

By  JULIAN  HAWTHORNE. 
Garth.  Dust. 

Eilice  Quentln.          Fortune's  Fool. 
Sebastian  Strome.     Beatrix  Randolph. 
David  Poindexter's  Disappearance. 
The  Spectre  of  the  Camera. 

By  Sir  A.  HELPS. 
Ivan  de  Biron. 

By  ISAAC:  HENDERSON. 

Agatha  Page. 

By  Mrs.  ALFRED    HUNT. 

The  Leaden  Casket,  j  Self-Condemned. 
That  other  Person. 

By  JEAN  INCELOW. 
Fated  to  be  Free. 

By  R.  A  SHE    KINO. 
A  Drawn  Game. 
"The  Wearing  of  the  Green." 

By  E.  LYNN  LINTON. 


lone. 

Paston  Carew. 

Sowing  the  Wind. 


Patricia  Kemball. 

Under  which  Lord? 

"  My  Love !  " 

The  Atonement  of  Learn  Dundas. 

The  World  Well  Lost. 

By  HENRY    W.  LUCY. 
Gideon  Fleyce. 

By  JUSTIN  MCCARTHY. 

A  Fair  Saxon.  Donna  Quixote. 

Linley  Rochford.       Maid  of  Athens. 
Miss  Misanthrope.     Camiola. 
The  Waterdale  Neighbours. 
My  Enemy's  Daughter. 
Dear  Lady  Disdain. 
The  Comet  of  a  Season. 

By  A«NES   1TI ACOONELL. 
Quaker  Cousins. 

Ky  !>.  CHRISTIE  .HURRAY. 
J, lie's  Atonement.      Val  Strange. 
Joseph's  Coat.  Hearts. 

Coals  of  Fire.  A  Model  Father. 

Old  Blazer's  Hero. 
By  the  Gate  of  the  Sea. 
A  Bit  of  Human  Mature, 
First  Person  Singular. 
Cynic  Fort  >ne. 
The  Way    .f  th.e  World. 

By  :MJ  I:RAY  &  HERMAN. 

The  Bishops'  Bible. 
Paul  Jones's  Alias. 

By  III:  .TIE   NISBET. 
"Bail  Up!" 

By  GEORGES   OHNET. 
A  Weird  Gift. 

By  Mr«.  OLIPHANT. 
Whiteladiei. 


THE  PICCADILLY  (3/6)  NOVELS— continued. 
By  OUIDA. 


Held  In  Bondage. 

Strathmore. 

Chandos. 

Under  Two  Flags. 

Idalla. 

CecilCastlemalne's 


Tricotrln.   |    Puck. 

Folle  Farine. 

A  Dog  of  Flanders. 


Two  Little  Wooden 

Shoes. 

In  a  Winter  City. 
Ariadne. 
Friendship. 
Moths.     |   Rnfflno. 
Pipistrello. 
AVillage  Commune 
Bimbi.     |  Wanda. 
Frescoes.  0 thmar. 


Pascarel.  I    Signa.    In  Maremma. 
Princess    Naprax-    Syrlin.' Guilderoy. 


ine. 


Santa  Barbara. 


By  MARGARET  A.  PAUL. 

Gentle  and  Simple. 

By  J  A  TIES   PAYN. 

Lost  Sir  Massingberd. 

Lass  Black  than  We're  Painted* 

A  Confidential  Agent. 

A  Grape  from  a  Thorn. 

In  Peril  and  Privation. 

The  Mystery  of  Mirbridge. 

The  Canon's  Ward. 

Walter's  Word.        Talk  of  the  Town 

By  Proxy.  Holiday  Tasks. 

High  Spirits.  The  Burnt  Million. 

Under  One  Roof.       The  Word  and  the 

From  Exile.  Will. 

Glow-worm  Tales.     Sunny  Stories. 

By  E.  C.  PRICE. 
Yalentina.  |  The  Foreigners. 

Mrs.  Lancaster's  Rival. 

By  RICIIAltD  PRYCE. 
Miss  Maxwell's  Affections. 

By  CHARLES  READE. 
It  Is  Never  Too  Late  to  Mend. 
The  Double  Marriage. 
Love  Me  Little,  Love  Me  Long. 
The  Cloister  and  the  Hearth. 
The  Course  of  True  Love. 
The  Autobiography  of  a  Thief. 
Put  Yourself  in  his  Place. 
A  Terrible  Temptation. 
Singleheart  and  Doubleface. 
Good  Stories  of  Men  and  other  Animals. 


Hard  Cash. 
Peg  Wofflngton. 

Christie  Johnstone. 


Wandering  Heir. 
A  Woman-Hater. 
A  Simpleton. 


Griffith  Gaunt.          Readiana. 
Foul  Play.  The  Jilt. 

A  Perilous  Secret. 

By  Hire.  J.  H.  RIDDELL. 
The  Prince  of  Wales's  Garden  Party. 
Weird  Stories. 

By  F.  W.  RORINSON. 
Women  are  Strange. 
The  Hands  of  Justice. 

By  W.  CLARK    RUSSELL. 
An  Ocean  Tragedy. 
My  Shipmate  Louise. 
Alone  on  a  Wide  Wide  Sea. 

By  JOHN   SAUNDERS. 
Guy  Waterman.      |  Two  Dreamers, 
Bound  to  the  Wheel. 
The  Lion  In  the  Path. 
By  KATHARINE  SAUNDERS. 
Margaret  and  Elizabeth. 
Gideon's  Rock.         j  Heart  Salvage, 
The  High  Mills.       I  Sebastian. 


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By  LI  Eii:    SHARP. 
In  a  Steamer  Chair. 

By  HA  WLK  Y   S.TIA  RT. 

Without  Love  or  Licence. 

By  R.  A.  STI:K.\!»\LE. 
The  Afghan  Knife. 

By  BERTHA    THOMAS. 

Proud  Maisie.          |  The  Violin-player. 
By  FRANCES    E.  TROLLOPE. 

Like  Ships  upon  the  Sea. 
Anne  Furness.         |  Mabel's  Progress. 
By  IVAN  TUROENIEFF,  &c. 

Stories  from  Foreign  Novelists. 


THE  PICCADILLY  (3/6)  NOVELS — continued, 
By  A  NT  II  ON  V  TROLLOPE. 


Frau  Frohmann. 
Marion  Fay. 


Kept  in  the  Dark. 
Land-Leaguers. 


The  Way  We  Live  Now. 
Mr.  Scarborough's  Family. 

By  C.  C.  FRASER-TYTLER. 
Mistress  Judith. 

By  *  A  It  A II  TYTLER. 


Lady  Bell. 
Buried  Diamonds) 


The  Bride's  Pass. 

Noblesse  Oblige. 

The  Blackball  Ghosts. 

By   inAlilv  TWAIN. 
The  American  Claimant. 

By  J.  8.  WINTER. 
A  Soldier's  Children. 


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Artemus  Ward  Complete. 

By  EDITION!)  ABOUT. 

The  Fellah. 

By  HAMILTON  AIDE!. 

Carr  of  Carrlyon.  |  Confidences. 
By  ill  All  Y   ALBERT. 

Brooke  Finchley's  Daughter. 

By  Mrs.  ALEXANDER. 

Maid,  Wife,  or  Widow?  ]  Valerie's  Fate. 
By  (3  RANT  ALLEN. 

Strange  Stories.        The  Devil's  Die. 
Philistia.  This  Mortal  Coil. 

Babylon.  In  all  Shades. 

The  Beckoning  Hand. 
For  Maimie's  Sake.  |  Tents  of  Shem. 
The  Great  Taboo. 

By  ALAN  ST.  AUBYN. 
A  Fellow  of  Trinity. 

By  IS.  v.  S.  BARING  OOULD. 
Bed  Spider.  |  Eve. 

By  FRANK   BARRETT. 
Fettered  for  Life. 
Between  Life  and  Death. 
The  Sin  of  Olga  Zassoulich. 
Folly  Morrison.  I  Honest  Davle. 
Lieut.  Barnabas.'A  Prodigal's  Progress. 
Found  Guilty.  I  A  Recoiling  Vengeance. 
For  Love  and  Honour. 
John  Ford ;  and  His  Helpmate. 
By  W.  BESANT  &  J.  RICE. 


This  Son  of  Vulcan. 


By  Celia's  Arbour. 


Monks  of  Thelema. 
The  Seamy  Side. 

M 


Ten  Years'  Tenant. 


My  Little  Girl 
Case  of  Mr.Lucraft. 
Golden  Butterfly. 
Ready-Money  Mortiboy. 
With  Harp  and  Crown. 
'Twas  in  Trafalgar's  Bay. 
The  Chaplain  of  the  Fleet. 

By  WALTER    BEtttfVT. 
Dorothy  Forster.       Uncle  Jack. 
Children  of  Gibeon.    Herr  Paulus. 
All  Sorts  and  Conditions  of  Men. 
The  Captains'  Room. 
All  In  a  Garden  Fair. 
The  World  Went  Very  Well  Then. 
For  Faith  and  Freedom. 
To  Call  Her  Mine. 
The  Bell  of  St.  Paul'*, 
Ibe  Holy  Rose. 


BySHELSLEY  BEAUCHAITIP. 

Grantley  Grange. 

By  FREDERICK  BOYLE. 

Camp  Notes.  |  Savage  Life. 

Chronicles  of  No-man's  Land. 

By  BRET   IIARTE. 

Flip.  I  Californian  Storle* 

Maruja.  I  Gabriel  Conroy. 

An  Heiress  of  Red  Dog. 
The  Luck  of  Roaring  Camp. 
A  Phyllis  of  the  Sierras. 

By  I1AROLD    lilt YI><;i  •«. 

Uncle  Sam  at  Home. 

By  ROBERT  BUCHANAN. 


The  Shadow  of  the 

Sword. 

A  Child  of  Nature. 
God  and  the  Man. 
Love  Me  for  Ever. 
Foxglove  Manor. 


The  Martyrdom  oi 

Madeline. 
Annan  Water. 
The  New  Abelard. 
Matt. 
The  Heir  of  Linne. 


The  Master  of  the  Mine. 

By  HALL   CAINE. 

The  Shadow  of  a  Crime. 

A  Son  of  Hagar.     |  The  Deemster. 

By  Commander  CAMERON. 

The  Cruise  of  the  "Black  Prince." 
By  Ittr*.  LOVETT  CAilIERON. 

Deceivers  Ever.      |  Juliet's  Guardian. 

By  AUSTIN   CLARE. 
For  the  Love  of  a  Lass. 

By  Mr*.  ARCHER  CLIVE. 

Paul  Ferroll. 

Why  Paul  Ferroll  Killed  his  Wife. 
Sty  MACLAREN   COBBAN. 

The  Cure  of  Souls. 

By  C.  ALLSTON  COLLINS. 

The  Bar  Sinister. 

ilIORT.  &  FRANCE*  COLLINS. 

Sweet  Anne  Page.  |  Transmigration. 

From  Midnight  to  Midnight. 

A  Fight  with  Fortune. 

Sweet  and  Twenty.  I  Village  Comedy. 

Frances.  You  Play  me  False. 

Blacksmith  and  Scholar. 


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TWO-SHII.HNG  NOVELS — continued. 

By  WILK1E    COLLINS. 
Armadale.  My  Miscellanies. 

After  Dark.  j  Woman  in  White. 

No  Name.  !  The  Moonstone. 

Antonina.  |   Basil.    Man  and  Wife. 
Hide  and  Seek.       |  Poor  Miss  Finch. 
The  Dead  Secret.    I  The  Fallen  Leaves. 
Queen  of  Hearts.      Jezebel's  Daughter 
Miss  or  Mrs  ?  The  Black  Robe. 

New  Magdalen.         Heart  and  Science. 
The  Frozen  Deep.      "  I  Say  No." 
Law  and  the  Lady.    The  Evil  Genius. 
The  Two  Destinies. !  Little  Novels. 
Haunted  Hotel.       j  Legacy  of  Cain. 
A  Rogue's  Life.          Blind  Love. 

By  OT.  J.  COLQUHOUN. 
Every  Inch  a  Soldier. 

By  DUTTON  COOK. 
Leo.  |  Paul  Foster's  Daughter. 

By   C.  EGBERT   CRA»DO<:K. 
Prophet  of  the  Great  Smoky  Mountains. 

By  B.  M.  CROiiER. 
Pretty  Miss  Neville. 
A  Bird  of  Passage. 
Diana  Harrington. 
Proper  Pride. 

By  WILLIAM  CYPLES. 
Hearts  of  Gold. 

By  ALPIIONSE   DAUDET. 
The  Evangelist;  or,  Port  Salvation. 

By  JAMES  DE   MILLE. 
A  Castle  in  Spain. 

By  .J.  LEITII    DERWENT. 
Our  Lady  of  Tears.  |  Circe's  Lovers. 

By  CHARLES   DICKENS. 
Sketches  by  Boz.     I  Oliver  Twist. 
Pickwick  Papers.      Nicholas  Nickleby. 

By  DICK  DONOVAN. 
The  Man-Hunter.    |  Caught  at  Last  I 
Tracked  and  Taken. 
Who  Poisoned  Hetty  Duncan? 
The  Man  from  Manchester. 
A  Detective's  Triumphs. 
In  the  Grip  of  the  Law. 
By  Mrs.  ANNIE  EDWARDES. 
A  Point  of  Honour.  |  Archie  Lcvell. 
By  M.  BETHAM-EDWARDS. 
Felicia.  I  Kitty. 

By  EDWARD  EGGLESTON. 

By*  PERCY  FITZGERALD. 

Bella  Donna.          I  Polly. 
Never  Forgotten.    I  Fatal  Zero. 
The  Second  Mrs.  Tillotson. 
Seventy-five  Brooke  Street. 
The  Lady  of  Brantome. 
By  PERCY  FITZGERALD 

and  others. 
Strange  Secrets. 

ALBANY    DE    FONBLANQUE. 
Filthy  Lucre. 

By  R.  E.  FRANCILLON. 


Olympia. 
One  by  One. 
A  Real  Queen. 


tueen  Cophetua. 

Ing  or  Knave? 

Romances  of  Law. 


By  HAROLD  FREDERICK. 

Beth's  Brother's  Wife. 

The  Lawton  Girl. 

Pref.  by  Sir  RARTLE  FREKE. 

Pandurang  Hari, 


TWO-SHILLING  NOVELS — continued. 

By    IIAIIV   FKISWELL. 
One  of  Two. 

By  EDWARD  GARRETT. 
The  Capel  Girls. 

By  CHARLES  GIBBON. 


In  Honour  Bound, 
Flower  of  Forest. 
Braes  of  Yarrow. 
The  Golden  Shaft. 
Of  High  Degree. 
Mead  and  Stream. 
Loving  a  Dream. 
A  Hard  Knot. 
Heart's  Delight. 
Blood-Money. 


Robin  Gray. 
Fancy  Free. 
For  Lack  of  Gold. 
What      will      the 

World  Say? 
In  Love  and  War. 
For  the  King. 
In  Pastures  Green. 
Queen  of  Meadow. 
A  Heart's  Problem. 
The  Dead  Heart. 

By  WILLIAM  GILBERT. 
Dr.  Austin's  Guests.  I  James  Duke. 
The  Wizard  of  the  Mountain. 

By   ERNEST  GLANVILLE. 
The  Lost  Heiress. 

By  HENRY  GKEVILLE. 
A  Noble  Woman.      |  Nikanor. 

By  JOHN  IIABI5EKTON. 
Brueton's  Bayou.    |  Country  Luck. 

By  ANDREW   IIALLIDAY. 
Every-Day  Papers. 

By  Lady  DUFFUS  HARDY. 
Paul  Wynter's  Sacrifice. 

By  TSJGMAS  HARDY. 
Under  the  Greenwood  Tree. 
Ry  J.  BERWICK  HAR WOOD. 
The  Tenth  Earl. 

By  JULIAN  HAWTHORNE. 


Sebastian  Strome. 

Dust. 

Beatrix  Randolph* 

Love — or  a  Name. 


Garth. 

Ellice  Qnentin. 

Fortune's  Fool. 

Hiss  Cadogna. 

David  Poindexter's  Disappearance. 

The  Spectre  of  the  Camera. 

By  Sir  ARTHUR   HELPS. 
Ivan  de  Biron. 

Ky    HENRY    HERMAN. 
A  Leading  Lady. 

By  Mrs.  CASHEL   HOEY. 
The  Lover's  Creed.     . 
By  :Ur».  GEORGE  HOOPER. 
The  House  of  Raby. 

By  TIGIIE    HOPKINS. 
'Twixt  Love  and  Duty. 

By  Mrs.  H5JNGERPORD. 
A  Maiden  all  Forlorn. 
In  Durance  Vile.       A  Mental  Struggle. 
Marvel.  A  Modern  Circe. 

By  Mrs.  ALFRED  HUNT. 
Thornicroft's  Model.  I  Self  Condemned. 
That  Other  Person.    !  Leaden  Casket. 

By  JEAN  INGELOW. 
Fated  to  be  Free. 

By  HARRIETT  JAY 
The  Dark  Colleen. 
The  Queen  of  Connaught. 

By  MARK    KERSHAW. 
Colonial  Facts  and  Fictions. 

By  R.  ASHE    KING. 
A  Drawn  Game.      I  Passion's  Slaifc 
"  The  Wearing  of  the  Grsea," 
Bell  Barry, 


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TWO-SHILLING  NOVELS— continued. 

By  JOHN   LEYS. 
The  Lindsays. 

By  E.  LYNN   LINTON. 
Patricia  Kemball.     Paston  Carew. 
World  Well  Lost.     "  My  Love  I" 
Under  which  Lord?    lone. 
The  Atonement  of  Learn  Dundas. 
With  a  Silken  Thread. 
The  Rebel  of  the  Family. 
Bowing  the  Wind. 

By  HENRY   IV.  LUCY. 
Gideon  Fleyce. 

By  JUSTIN  MCCARTHY. 
A  Fair  Saxon.  Donna  Quixote. 

Linley  Rochford.       Maid  of  Athens. 
Hiss  Misanthrope.    Camiola. 
Dear  Lady  Disdain. 
The  Waterdale  Neighbours. 
My  Enemy's  Daughter. 
The  Comet  of  a  Season. 

By  AGNES  MACDONELL. 

Quaker  Cousins. 

KATI1ARINF    ?.  MACQUOID. 

The  Evil  Eye.         |  Lost  Rose. 

By  W.  H.  MALLOCH. 
The  New  Republic. 
By  FLORENCE    1T1ARRYAT. 

Open !  Sesame !       |  Fighting  the  Air. 
A  Harvest  of  Wild  Cats. 
Written  In  Fire. 

By  J.  MASTERMAN. 
Haifa-dozen  Daughters. 
By  BRANDER  MATTHEWS. 
A  Secret  of  the  Sea. 

By  LEONARD   MERR1CK. 
The  Han  who  was  Good. 

By  JEAN  M1DDLE.TIASS. 
Touch  and  Go.        |  Hr.  Dorillion. 

By  Mrs.  MOLEStVOiiTII. 
Hathercourt  Rectory. 

By  J.  E.  MUDDOCK. 
Stories  Weird  and  Wonderful. 
The  Dead  Man's  Secret. 
By  D.  CHRISTIE  MURRAY. 
A  Hodel  Father.       Old  Blazer's  Hero. 
Joseph's  Coat.  Hearts. 

Coals  of  Fire.  Way  of  the  World. 

Yal  Strange.  Cynic  Fortune. 

A  Life's  Atonement. 
By  the  Gate  of  the  Sea. 
A  Bit  of  Human  Nature. 
First  Person  Singular. 
By  MURRAY  nuel   HERMAN. 
One  Traveller  Returns. 
Paul  Jones's  Alias. 
The  Bishops'  Bible. 

By  HENRY   MURRAY. 
A  Game  of  Bluff. 

By  ALICE   O'HANLON. 
The  Unforeseen.     |  Chance?  or  Fate? 


TWO-SHILLING  NOVELS — continued. 

By  GEORGES  OIINET. 
Doctor  Ramcau.        A  Last  Love. 
A  Weird  Gift. 

By  Mrs.  OLIPIIANT. 
Whiteladies.  |  The  Primrose  Path 

The  Greatest  Heiress  in  England. 
By  Mrs.  ROBERT  O  RE1LLY. 
Phcebe's  Fortunes. 

By  OUIDA. 


Held  in  Bondage. 

Strathmore. 

Chantios. 

Under  Two  Flags. 

Malta. 

CecilCastlemalne's 

Gage. 
Tricotrin. 
Puck. 

Folle  Farlne. 
A  Dog  of  Flanders. 
Pascarel. 
Signa. 
Princess    Naprax- 

ine. 

In  a  Winter  City. 
Ariadne. 


Corn- 


Two  Little  Wooden 

Shoes. 
Friendship. 
Moths. 
Pipistrello. 
A    Village 

munc. 
Bimbi. 
Wanda. 
Frescoes. 
In  Maremrna. 
Oth  mar. 
Guilderoy. 
Rufflno. 
Syrlin. 
Ouida's    Wisdom, 

Wit,  and  Pathos. 


MARGARET  AGNES  PAUL,. 

Gentle  and  Simple. 

By  J  A. TIES  PAYN. 


£200  Reward. 
Marine  Residence. 
Mirk  Abbey. 
By  Proxy. 
Under  One  Roof. 
High  Spirits. 
Carlyon's  Year. 
From  Exile. 
For  Cash  Only. 
Kit. 

The  Canon's  Ward 
Talk  of  the  Town. 
Holiday  Tasks. 


Bentinck's  Tutor. 

Murphy's  Mastar. 

A  County  Family. 

At  Har  Mercy. 

Cecil's  Tryst. 

Clyffards  of  Clyffe. 

Foster  Brothers. 

Found  Dead. 

Best  of  Husbands. 

Walter's  Word. 

Halves. 

Fallen  Fortunes. 

Humorous  Stories. 

Lost  Sir  Massingbard. 

A  Perfect  Treasure. 

A  Woman's  Vengeance. 

The  Family  Scapagrace. 

What  He  Cost  Her. 

Gwendoline's  Harvest. 

Lika  Father,  Like  Son. 

Married  Beneath  Him. 

Not  V/ooed,  but  Won. 

Less  Black  than  We're  Painted, 

A  Confidential  Agent. 

Some  Private  Views. 

A  Grape  from  a  Thorn. 

Glow-worm  Tales. 

Ths  Mystery  of  Mirbridge. 

The  Burnt  Million. 

The  Word  and  the  Will. 

A  Princa  of  the  Blood. 

By  C.  L.  P1KK1S. 
Lady  Lovalace. 

By  EDGAR  A.  POE. 
The  Mystery  of  Marie  Roget. 

By  E.  C.  IMtM'E. 
Yalentlna.  |  The  Foreigners, 

Mrs.  Lancaster's  Rival. 
Gerald. 


BOOKS  PUBLISHED  BY  CHATTO  &  WINDUS. 


TWO-SHILLING  NOVELS— continued. 
By  CHARLES  READE. 

It  is  Never  Too  Late  to  Mend. 

Christie  Johnstone. 

Put  Yourself  in  His  Place. 

The  Double  Marriage. 

Love  Me  Little,  Love  Me  Long, 

The  Cloister  and  the  Hearth. 

The  Course  of  True  Love. 

Autobiography  of  a  Thief. 

A  Terrible  Temptation. 

The  Wandering  Heir. 

Singleheart  and  Doubleface. 

Good  Stories  of  Men  and  other  Animals. 

Hard  Cash.  A  Simpleton. 

Peg  Wofflngton.        Readiana. 

Griffith  Gaunt.          A  Woman-Hater. 

Foul  Play.  The  Jilt. 

A  Perilous  Secret. 

By  Mrs.  J.  II.  RI  DDELL. 
Weird  Stories.        |  Fairy  Water. 
Her  Mother's  Darling. 
Prince  of  Wales's  Garden  Party. 
The  Uninhabited  House. 
The  Mystery  in  Palace  Gardens. 
The  Hun's  Curse.     |     Idle  Tales. 
By  F.  W.  ROBINSON. 
Women  are  Strange. 
The  Hands  of  Justice. 

By  JAMES   Kl'IVriMAN. 
Skippers  and  Shellbacks. 
Grace  Balmaign's  Sweetheart. 
Schools  and  Scholars. 

By  W.  CLARK  RUSSELL. 
Round  the  Galley  Fire. 
On  the  Fo'k'sle  Head. 
In  the  Middle  Watch. 
A  Voyage  to  the  Cape. 
A  Book  for  the  Hammock. 
The  Mystery  of  the  "Ocean  Star." 
The  Romance  of  Jenny  Harlowe. 
An  Ocean  Tragedy. 
My  Shipmate  Louise. 

<;I:«K«;I:  AUOUSTUS  SALA. 

Gaslight  and  Daylight. 

By  JOHN  SAUNDERS. 

Guy  Waterman.      I  Two  Dreamers. 

The  Lion  in  the  Path. 

By  KATHARINE  SAUNDERS. 

Joan  Merryweather.    Heart  Salvage. 
The  High  Mills.  Sebastian. 

Margaret  and  Elizabeth. 

By  QEOKOE   R.  SIMS. 
Rogues  and  Vagabonds. 
The  Ring  o'  Bells. 
Mary  Jane's  Memoirs. 
Mary  Jane  Married. 
Tales  of  To-day.   1  Dramas  of  Life. 
Tinkletop's  Crime. 
Zeph:  A  Circus  Story. 

By  ARTHUR  SltE'M'HLE  Y. 
A  Match  in  the  Dark. 

By  HAWLEY  SMART. 
Without  Love  or  Licence. 

By  T.  W.  SPEIUHT. 
The  Mysteries  of  Heron  Dyke. 
The  Golden  Hoop.  I  By  Devious  Ways. 
Hoodwinked,  Ac.    |  Back  to  Life. 


TWO-SHILLING  NOVELS— continued. 

By  R.  A.  STERNDALE. 
The  Afghan  Knife. 

By  R.  LOUIS   STEVENSON. 
New  Arabian  Nights.  |   Prince  Otto. 
BY  BERTHA  THOMAS. 
Crassida.  |  Proud  Maisie. 

The  Violin-player. 

By  WAI /E'ER   TalORNBURY. 
Tales  for  the  Marines. 
Old  Stories  Re-told. 

T.  ADOI.l'HUS  TROLLOPE. 

Diamond  Cut  Diamond. 

By  F.  ELEANOR  TROLLOPE. 

Like  Ships  upon  the  Sea. 

Anne  Furness.         |  Mabel's  Progress. 

By  ANTHONY  TROLLOPE. 

Frau  .Frohmann.     I  Kept  in  the  Dark, 

Marion  Fay.  |  John  Caldigate. 

Tha  Way  We  Live  Now. 

The  American  Senator. 

Mr.  Scarborough's  Family. 

The  Land-Leaguers. 

The  Golden  Lion  of  Granpere. 

By  J.  T.  TKOWBRIDGB. 

Farnell's  Folly. 
By  IVAN  TURGENIEFF,  4kc. 

Stories  from  Foreign  Novelists. 
By  MARK  TWAIN. 

A  Pleasure  Trip  on  the  Continent. 

The  Gilded  Age. 

Mark  Twain's  Sketches. 

Tom  Sawyer.  I  A  Tramp  Abroad. 

The  Stolen  White  Elephant. 

Huckleberry  Finn. 

Life  on  the  Mississippi. 

The  Prince  and  the  Pauper. 

By  €.  «'.  FRASER-TYTLER. 
Mistress  Judith. 

By  SARAH   TV  J  1,1   IS. 


Noblesse  Oblige. 
Disappeared. 
Huguenot  Family. 
Blackball  Ghosts. 


The  Bride's  Pass. 

Buried  Diamonds. 

Saint  Mungo'sCity. 

Lady  Bell. 

What  She  Came  Through. 

Beauty  and  the  Beast. 

Citoyenne  Jaqueline. 

By  MM.  F.  II.  WILLIAMSON. 

A  Child  Widow. 

By  J.  S.  WINTER. 
Cavalry  Life.      |  Regimental  Legend! 

By  II.  F.  WOOD. 
The  Passenger  from  Scotland  Yard. 
The  Englishman  of  the  Rue  Cain. 

By  Lady  WOOD. 
Sabina. 

CEL1A  PARKER   WOO  1. 1,  ICY. 
Rachel  Armstrong;  or,  Love  &  Theology. 

By  EDMUND   YATES. 
The  Forlorn  Hope.  |  Land  at  Last. 
Castaway. 

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