| Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917. | | | | The Wild Gazelle | | By Lord Byron |
| | | THE WILD gazelle on Judah’s hills | |
| Exulting yet may bound, | |
| And drink from all the living rills | |
| That gush on holy ground; | |
| Its airy step and glorious eye | 5 |
| May glance in tameless transport by:— | |
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| A step as fleet, an eye more bright, | |
| Hath Judah witness’d there, | |
| And o’er her scenes of lost delight | |
| Inhabitants more fair. | 10 |
| The cedars wave on Lebanon, | |
| But Judah’s statelier maids are gone! | |
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| More blest each palm that shades those plains | |
| Than Israel’s scatter’d race; | |
| For, taking root, it there remains | 15 |
| In solitary grace; | |
| It cannot quit its place of birth, | |
| It will not live in other earth. | |
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| But we must wander witheringly, | |
| In other lands to die; | 20 |
| And where our fathers’ ashes be, | |
| Our own may never lie: | |
| Our temple hath not left a stone, | |
| And Mockery sits on Salem’s throne. | | | | |
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