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. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: IMANUEL EHRENHARDT by EDGAR LEE MASTERS RETRIBUTION by FRIEDRICH VON LOGAU CUMNOR HALL by WILLIAM JULIUS MICKLE HYMN: 32. THE NATIVITY OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST by CHRISTOPHER SMART FAUSTINE by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE THE AFTER WOMAN by FRANCIS THOMPSON THE MORAL FABLES: THE FOX, THE WOLF, AND THE HUSBANDMAN by AESOP |