Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE JEW TO JESUS, by FLORENCE KIPER FRANK


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THE JEW TO JESUS, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O man of my own people, I alone
Last Line: A thousand times have we been crucified.
Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jews; Religion; Judaism; Theology


O MAN of my own people, I alone
Among these alien ones can know thy face,
I who have felt the kinship of our race
Burn in me as I sit where they intone
Thy praises,—those who, striving to make known
A God for sacrifice, have missed the grace
Of thy sweet human meaning in its place,
Thou who art of our blood-bond and our own.

Are we not sharers of thy Passion? Yea,
In spirit-anguish closely by thy side
We have drained the bitter cup, and, tortured, felt
With thee the bruising of each heavy welt.
In every land is our Gethsemane.
A thousand times have we been crucified.





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