Explore "The Divine Tragedy" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
MANAHEM, THE ESSENIAN. / Three crosses in this noonday night uplifted, / Three human figures that in mortal pain / Gleam white against the supernatural darkness; / Two thieves, that writhe in torture, and between them / The Suffering Messiah, the Son of Joseph, / Ay, the Messiah Triumphant, Son of David! / A crown of thorns on that dishonored head! / Those hands that healed the sick now pierced with nails, / Those feet that wandered homeless through the world / Now crossed and bleeding, and at rest forever! / And the three faithful Maries, overwhelmed / By this great sorrow, kneeling, praying weeping! / O Joseph Caiaphas, thou great High-Priest / How wilt thou answer for this deed of blood?
SCRIBES and ELDERS. / Thou that destroyest the Temple, and dost build it / In three days, save thyself; and if thou be / The Son of God, come down now from the cross.