,it was the ,road to ,jericho           
,illustration  ,illustration     ,it was
 the ,road to ,jericho  ,by ,annie      
,fellows ,johnston      ,author of ,the 
,little ,colonel     ,the ,desert of    
,waiting     ,etc4      ,,illustrated   
,,by ,,john ,r ,,neill      ,,new ,,york
     ,,britton ,,publishing ,,company   
,illustration      ,copyright     #aiai 
by     ,annie     ,fellows     ,johnston
  ,illustration  ,illustration     ,it  
,was the ,road to ,jericho       ,it was
 the road to ,jericho1       ,and brave 
indeed the man     ,who went alone and  
waited not       ,to join the caravan4  
,for robber hoards swooped down the     
cliffs         ,like eagles on their    
prey1     ,and mercy was not known to   
them1       ,theirs but to kill and     
slay4  ,illustration       ,along the   
road to ,jericho         ,a man went    
riding by1     ,he heard a groan of     
mortal pain1         ,he heard a        
piercing cry4  ,illustration       ,he  
got him down from off his beast1        

,he found the one who bled1     ,the    
thieves had bruised and beaten him      
,and left him well nigh dead4      7,the
 ,levite and the priest had passed1     
,the calls to them were vain74     ,he  
bound his wounds4 ,with oil and wine    
,he eased the grevious pain4      ,then 
to the inn he carried him       ,and    
paid the keeper's price1     ,as one who
 does a deed for love1       ,nor counts
 it sacrifice4      ,lo1 as he passed   
upon his way1       ,his robe it showed 
a stain--     ,two red marks on his     
white sleeve1 where       ,the bleeding 
head had lain4      ,one1 made in pity  
when he stooped         ,to lift the    
wounded up1     ,the other1 when in love
 he bent         ,to offer him the cup4 
,illustration      ,two red1 red lines  
which made a cross1         ,and marked 
him as the man     ,whose name is1 till 
the end of time         ,the good       
,samaritan4     ,part ,,ii              
,illustration      ,the ,world pressed  
toward its ,jericho1       ,the goal of 

its desire--     ,its marts1 its        
pleasures and its shrines       ,its    
dreams of great empire4      ,a hoard of
 gold it bore along           ,to barter
 and to buy4     ,but on the road1 by   
thieves beset1           ,it1 too1 was  
left to die4      ,the ,son of ,god came
 down that way       ,to succour and to 
save1     ,to bind its wounds1 to heal  
its sin       ,to lift it from the      
grave4      ,lo6 ,he too1 went upon ,his
 way       ,when ,he had paid the price4
     ,marked by the red red lines that  
make       ,the ,cross of ,sacrifice4   
,illustration      ,where all the woe of
 all the world       ,upon ,his heart   
had lain     ,and all the sin of earth  
pressed sore       ,there gleamed that  
double stain4      ,and now we cannot   
name ,his name       ,who is the ,lord  
of ,heaven1     ,without a thought of   
that symbol       ,by love and pity     
given4      ,now onward to our ,jericho 
,we press with bated breath4     ,for   
evil grows the way1 and dark4           

,on every hand stalks death4     ,part  
,,iii  ,illustration      ,the robber   
hoards that strip and slay       ,take  
more than gold1 forsooth1     ,they kill
 our holiest of ,hopes--       ,they    
take all ,love--all ,youth6      ,they  
smite the mother and the maid--         
,the babe that cries unfed1     ,and    
little children1 sore afraid       ,sob 
in the night for bread4  ,illustration  
,oh1 who shall staunch such world-wide  
woe--       ,such universe of pain8     
,and who has oil and wine enough8       
,and must they cry in vain8             
,illustration      ,nay6 ,on the road to
 ,jericho       ,there be a million now1
     ,who bear ,christ's pity in their  
hearts1       ,his sign upon their brow4
      ,and millions more shall follow   
them       ,to bind and to restore4     
,till all the highway is made safe      
,and war shall be no more4      ,now    
,god give grace to all who hear         
,and may ,his love suffice     ,to blaze
 upon each heart each day       ,the    

,cross of ,sacrifice4  ,illustration    
,illustration         99       99       
99       99       99  ,transcriber's    
,note3  ,obvious punctuation repaired4  
,the original text spelled grievous as  
grevious4 ,this was retained so as to   
not change the poem's meter4  ,the      
original text had the contraction for it
 is 7it's7 in place of every possessive 
its4 ,this was corrected4