Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917.
By C. W. WynnePuissance of the Jew
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At least we have procured them harbourage—
A shelter from the flouts, the sneers, the gibes
Of malice that befits not this fair age!—
Turn where you will, each blood-stained, guilty page,
The foreign hatred ever doth abide,
The Jew is menaced still from every side.
Whate’er they touch turns golden in their hands,
And stone by stone the new Jerusalem
Is rising ’mid the waste of other lands,
For as their Wealth, so too their Power expands—
From East to West the sky is all aflame
With dawning greatness of the Jewish name!