[155] _The Wandering Jew_, or _Love's Masquerade_. "His port and mien bore marks of many years.... "Yet his cheek bore the mark of youth," while in the latter he is described as being "so old he seems to have outlived a world's decay." Shelley follows the German version, as used in a fragment he picked up torn and soiled in Lincoln's Inn Fields, whose author he did not know. Mr. Eubule-Evans, in a long dramatic poem of considerable power,[156] tells the story of Theudas, who could be released from his doom of immortality if only he would repent, but he will not. He renews his youth every forty years, growing suddenly from a decrepit man to a handsome, gifted youth, which naturally suggests complications of human love-affairs. Other elements of supernaturalism are used, as angels, demons, and so forth while the Æons and the Intermedii (whoever they are!) appear as chorus. [156] _The Curse of the Wandering Jew._ _The Wandering Jew, a Christmas Carol_,[157] retells the story with variations and with some power. The Jew here is shown to be very old and feeble, clad in antique raiment, with stigmata of the wounds on hands and feet. He is symbolic of the Christ, of His failure to win men. "For lo, at last I knew The lineaments of that diviner Jew, That like a Phantom passeth everywhere, The world's last hope and bitterest despair, Deathless, yet dead! And lo! while all men come and pass away That phantom of the Christ, forlorn and gray, Haunteth the earth, with desolate footfall." [157] By Robert Buchanan. The Wandering Jew is seen definitely once in Gothic fiction, in Lewis's _The Monk_, where a mysterious stranger, bearing on his forehead a burning cross imprinted, appears and is spoken of as the Wandering Jew. He is unable to stay more than fourteen days in any one place but must forever hurry on. Rev. T. Clark[158] gives a bird's-eye view of history such as a person of the long life and extensive migrations of the wanderer would see it. [158] In _The Wandering Jew_, or the _Travels and Observations of Bareach the Prolonged_.