“Aye, these also we would comfort. Came we here except to share the loaf and the cup with the uncrowned and the unshod amongst
“Few, aye, too few are the featherless who dare the wind, and many are the wingèd and full-fledged yet in the nest.
“And we would feed them all with our beak, both the sluggish and the swift.”
And another publican said: “Have I not been told that you would protect the harlots of Jerusalem?”
Then in the face of Jesus I saw, as it were, the rocky heights of Lebanon, and He said: “It is true.
“On the day of reckoning these women shall rise before the throne of my Father, and they shall be made pure by their own tears. But you shall be held down by the chains of your own judgment.
“Babylon