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THE JEW by ISAAC ROSENBERG

Poet Analysis

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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