Claudia Procula and Other Verses (Classic Reprint)

Religious Claudia Procula, or The Dream of Pilate s Wife. i HE waning light of the full paschal moon 1F ell like a plaintive requiem, on the walls And silent streets of doomed Jerusalem. Faint streaks of dawn crept over Gilead sheights; The breath of Spring rose fresh upon the slopes Of Olivet; sweet birds sang joyous in The olive groves of sad Gethsemane, And on the branching palms of Kedron svale, Where flowers smiled above the verdant sod. All earth lay calm and beauteous, but alas !W hat recked the Spring, or bird, or flower, for Him Who groaned beneath the sorrows of the world! Within their council chamber sat High Priest And Pharisee, with Scribes and Lawyers grave, The Sanhedrin, or sacred Senators, The Seventy who ruled Judea srealm, Subordinate unto the rod of Rome. The name is either Procula or Procla.
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