JUDAS MACCABAEUS puts himself at their head, and they go into the inner courts.) SCENE III.

-- JASON, alone.
JASON.
Through the Gate Beautiful I see them come With branches and green boughs and leaves of palm, And pass into the inner courts.

Alas! I should be with them, should be one of them, But in an evil hour, an hour of weakness, That cometh unto all, I fell away From the old faith, and did not clutch the new, Only an outward semblance of belief; For the new faith I cannot make mine own, Not being born to it.

It hath no root Within me.

I am neither Jew nor Greek, But stand between them both, a renegade To each in turn; having no longer faith In gods or men.