The Two Ideals

The inscription reads "THE TWO IDEALS / Now with the full year memory holds her tryst/ Heavy with such a tale of bitter loss/As never Earth has suffered since the Christ/Hung for us on the Cross. / If God, O Kaiser, makes the vision plain,/Gives you on some lone Calvary to see/The Man of Sorrows Who endured the pain/And died to set us free- / How will you face beneath its crown of thorn/That figure stark against the smoking skies,/The arms outstretched, the sacred head forlorn,/And those reproachful eyes? / How dare confront the false quest with the true?/Or think what gulfs between the ideals lie/Of Him Who died that men might live - and you/Who live that men may die? / Ah, turn your eyes away; He reads your heart;/Pass on and, having done your work abhorred,/Join hands with Judas in his place apart,/You who betrayed your Lord. / O.S. - ''The Wayside Calvary.'' / ''Punch,'' August 4th, 1915"