Christ washed the feet of Judas! <br />The dark and evil passions of his soul, <br />His secret plot, and sordidness complete, <br />His hate, his purposing, Christ knew the whole, <br />And still in love he stooped and washed his feet. <br /> <br />Christ washed the feet of Judas! <br />Yet all his lurking sin was bare to him, <br />His bargain with the priest, and more than this, <br />In Olivet, beneath the moonlight dim, <br />Aforehand knew and felt his treacherous kiss. <br /> <br />Christ washed the feet of Judas! <br />And so ineffable his love 'twas meet, <br />That pity fill his great forgiving heart, <br />And tenderly to wash the traitor's feet, <br />Who in his Lord had basely sold his part. <br /> <br />Christ washed the feet of Judas! <br />And thus a girded servant, self-abased, <br />Taught that no wrong this side the gate of heaven <br />Was ever too great to wholly be effaced, <br />And though unasked, in spirit be forgiven. <br /> <br />And so if we have ever felt the wrong <br />Of trampled rights, of caste, it matters not, <br />What e'er the soul has felt or suffered long, <br />Oh, heart! this one thing should not be forgot: <br />Christ washed the feet of Judas.<br /><br />George Marion McClellan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-feet-of-judas/
