| Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917. | | | | The Jewish Captive’s Song | | By Marion and Celia Moss |
| | | ONE is thine hour of might, | |
| Zion, and fallen art thou; | |
| Thy temple’s sacred height | |
| Is desecrated now. | |
| That I should live to see | 5 |
| The ruins of that dome, | |
| And Judah’s children be, | |
| Bondsmen, and slaves to Rome. | |
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| When I saw heaven’s wrath descending, | |
| Why ’scap’d I from the grave, | 10 |
| While thousands died defending | |
| The shrine they could not save; | |
| But bless’d are those who sleep | |
| In their quiet resting place, | |
| That they did not live to weep | 15 |
| O’er the scattering of their race. | | | | |
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