CHRIST, when you hung upon that tree accurst,
Bleeding, and braised, and agonised by thirst,
Mocked, tantalized, and spat on and defiled,
On a near rising ground there stood and smiled.
Serene behind those ravening Hebrew beasts,
Annas and Caiaphas, the two high priests.
They felt uplifted, doubtless; for their god
Was Moloch who was always pleased with blood.
Under all names this one red God they love,
And when the evidence appeared to prove
The divine origin of Him who died,
They thought ’twas Moloch they had crucified !
Nor will they change; when the last worst war is done.
And all mankind lies rotting in the sun,
High on the highest pile of skulls will kneels
Thanking his god for that he did reveal
This crowning proof of his great grace to man,
A radiant, pink, well nourished Anglican.
(John Collings Squire)
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