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TO EMMA LAZARUS - 1905, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear bard and prophet, that thy rest
Last Line: Richard watson gilder.
Subject(s): Jews; Judaism


DEAR bard and prophet, that thy rest is deep,
Thanks be to God! Not now on thy heart falls
Rumor intolerable. Sleep, O sleep!
See not the blood of Israel that crawls
Warm yet, into the moon and night; that cries
Even as of old, till all the world stands still
At rapine that even to Israel's agonies
Seems strange and monstrous, a mad dream of ill.
Thou sleepest! Yea, but as in grief we said:—
There is a spiritual life unconquerable.
So, bard of the ancient people, though, being dead
Thou speakest and thy voice we love full well.
Never thy holy memory forsakes us;
Thy spirit is the trumpet that awakes us!

RICHARD WATSON GILDER.





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