| W. Garrett Horder, comp. The Poets’ Bible: New Testament. 1895. | | | | Christ retiring to Bethany | | Arthur Middlemore Morgan |
| | ‘In the daytime He was teaching in the temple; and at night He went out and abode in the mount that is called the Mount of Olives?’—L UKE XXI. 37. ‘He went out of the city into Bethany; and He lodged there.’—M ATT. XXI. 17. |
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PIERCED ere My hour by shafts of death and sin, | |
| Ill words, revealing ambushed enemy; | |
| Crowned ere My hour with souls who mine would be, | |
| I work all day the city walls within. | |
| But when the sun sets and the stars begin | 5 |
| To light His path Who taught their orbs to glow, | |
| I pass the gates; I leave the strife and din, | |
| And to my friends beneath the hill I go; | |
| One whom I wakened from his four-day sleeping, | |
| One whom I raised from sev’nfold death, and one | 10 |
| Who household vigils round the Master keeping | |
| Leaves not her sister now to list alone. | |
| Sweet human love! I taste thy joys at even, | |
| At dawn I go away to make them heaven. | | | |
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