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First Line: Easy the cry, while vengeance now is wrought
Last Line: This old sea-haven to world-misery?
Subject(s): Freedom; Jews; Right To Asylum; Liberty; Judaism


EASY the cry while vengeance now is wrought
And from his lair the Anarchist is burned.
"Shut be our harbors, closed be every port
And from our shore be every alien turned."
Yet while the clamor and the pursuit is hot
And public anger public madness breeds,
Be it not soon nor easily forgot
That England thus an ancient title cedes.
For centuries a pillow hath she spread
For all that widowed goes and wandering
And in her lap hath laid the unhappy head
Or broken Statesman and of outcast King.
Shall she alarmed by that small horde deny
This old sea-haven to world-misery?





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