Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, DURING THE CRUSADES, by RABBI ELEAZAR


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DURING THE CRUSADES, by                    
First Line: Thy faithful sons, whom thou in love hast owned
Last Line: Crushed, drowned, or with harsh saws asunder sawn.
Subject(s): Crusades; Jews; Judaism


THY faithful sons, whom Thou in love hast owned,
Behold! are strangled, burnt and racked and stoned;
Are broken on the wheel; like felons hung;
Or, living, into noisome charnels flung.
I see them yonder, of their eyes bereft,
And there their mangled limbs in twain are cleft.
Beneath the wine-press are their bodies drawn,
Crushed, drowned, or with harsh saws asunder sawn.





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