Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE JEW, by ISAAC ROSENBERG


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First Line: Moses, from whose loins I sprung
Last Line: Then why do they sneer at me?
Subject(s): Bible; Freedom; Jews; Religion; Soldiers' Writings; Liberty; Judaism; Theology


Moses, from whose loins I sprung,
Lit by a lamp in his blood
Ten immutable rules, a moon
For mutable lampless men.

The blonde, the bronze, the ruddy,
With the same heaving blood,
Keep tide to the moon of Moses.
Then why do they sneer at me?






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