Hoofs of Pegasus

<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</SPAN></span></p> <h2>THE JUDAS TREE</h2> <div class="poetry-container"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0"><span class="bigfont">W</span>INTER to my tree has lent</span> <span class="i0">Beauty clean and innocent,</span> <span class="i0">Here no purple flowers blow,</span> <span class="i0">But crystal blossoms of the snow,</span> <span class="i0">Every crooked bough is set</span> <span class="i0">With starry petals delicate.</span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Judas flung the silver down,</span> <span class="i0">And hanged himself beyond the town:</span> <span class="i0">Spring returns. The traitor blood</span> <span class="i0">Quickens in each scarlet bud.</span> <span class="i0">Frost and snow remember not—</span> <span class="i0">Mercy on Iscariot.</span></div> </div></div> <hr class="chap" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />