Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ISRAEL AND HIS BOOK, by FELIX NAPOLEON GERSON


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First Line: An age-worn wanderer, pale with thought and tears
Last Line: The wondrous promise grief could not conceal!
Subject(s): Bible; God; Israel; Jews; Religion; Judaism; Theology


AN age-worn wanderer, pale with thought and tears,
With heart heroic and prophetic look,
Comes clasping to his breast the Sacred Book—
The amulet of Israel through the years!
"Behold!" he says, "through ages dark with fears,
Through travail and through miseries that shook.
The soul of Judah, this he ne'er forsook.
It is his Book!—Therein his God appears!"
His Book! more glorious with supernal light
Than all the beacons reared by mortal hands
Since time first lisped its anguish in the night.
His Book! That gave a God to all the lands;
Whose pages shall through us again reveal
The wondrous promise grief could not conceal!





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