| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 807. To Russia |
| | | By Joaquin Miller |
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| WHO tamed your lawless Tartar blood? | |
| What David bearded in her den | |
| The Russian bear in ages when | |
| You strode your black, unbridled stud, | |
| A skin-clad savage of your steppes? | 5 |
| Why, one who now sits low and weeps, | |
| Why, one who now wails out to you,— | |
| The Jew, the Jew, the homeless Jew. | |
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| Who girt the thews of your young prime | |
| And bound your fierce divided force? | 10 |
| Why, who but Moses shaped your course | |
| United down the grooves of time? | |
| Your mighty millions all to-day | |
| The hated, homeless Jew obey. | |
| Who taught all poetry to you? | 15 |
| The Jew, the Jew, the hated Jew. | |
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| Who taught you tender Bible tales | |
| Of honey-lands, of milk and wine? | |
| Of happy, peaceful Palestine? | |
| Of Jordan’s holy harvest vales? | 20 |
| Who gave the patient Christ? I say, | |
| Who gave your Christian creed? Yea, yea, | |
| Who gave your very God to you? | |
| Your Jew! Your Jew! Your hated Jew! | |
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