The Rambling Sailor/Friend, Wherefore———?

FRIEND, WHEREFORE———?
I WILL not count the years—there are days too—
  And to-night again I have said
   "What if you should be lying dead?"
Well, if it were so, I could only lay my head
    Quietly on the pillow of my bed
  Thinking of Him on whom poor sufferers cried
  Suffering Himself so much before He died:
  And then of Judas walking three years by His side—
  How Judas kissed Him—how He was crucified.
      Always when I see you
       I see those two;
      Oh! God it is true
  We do not, all of us, know what we do;
      But Judas knew.