Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, JUDAH, by GEORGE R. DU BOIS


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First Line: While the tribes of earth yet in the darkness
Last Line: Or tarnish a name unsoiled.
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Judah (bible); Judaism


WHILE the tribes of earth yet in the darkness groped,
Ere iron savagery set free,
O Judah! had'st thou with science coped
In law and poesy.

God's chosen people, thy songs are sung
In the great world to-day;
In every clime, in every tongue,
Thy name shall last for aye!

Since time began, yea, when the earth
We're told was very young,
Fair Judah flourished and gave birth
To wise men who have sung—

Psalms wherein human longings bring
Home to each heart to-day
The unspoken hope, the desire to cling
To a Higher Power alway.

Strong nations rise at last to fall
Beneath the strokes of Fate;
But Judah rises like a wall—
Invincible 'gainst hate.

Two thousand years have not sufficed,
Tho' of Fatherland despoiled,
To destroy the race by all despised,
Or tarnish a name unsoiled.





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