| Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917. | | | | During the Crusades (“Thy faithful sons, whom Thou in love hast owned”) | | By Eleazar |
| | | THY faithful sons, whom Thou in love hast owned, | |
| Behold! are strangled, burnt and racked and stoned; | |
| Are broken on the wheel; like felons hung; | |
| Or, living, into noisome charnels flung. | |
| I see them yonder, of their eyes bereft, | 5 |
| And there their mangled limbs in twain are cleft. | |
| Beneath the wine-press are their bodies drawn, | |
| Crushed, drowned, or with harsh saws asunder sawn. | | | | |
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