Yet that scaffold sways the future, And behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, Keeping watch above his own.2 Truth is on the scaffold, about to be executed. The poem’s final stanza is introduced by “Yet” (that reiterates the “yet” of the preceding verse), which contradicts usual assumptions. This “yet” is a belated echo of the “yet” of verse 5 in the parable. In both cases “yet” tells otherwise and disrupts usual thinking. In the parable the “yet” allows that the capricious judge