| Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917. | | | | Judas Maccabeus | | By Henry Snowman |
| | | VICTOR of God! O thou whose lamp of Fame | |
| Fed with the fire of immortality, | |
| Doth swing, triumphant, ’cross the glooming sea | |
| Of Time! Preserver of thy Country’s name! | |
| Judas, whose heart and arm were as a flame | 5 |
| To burn and burst the chains of slavery, | |
| And rage about the witching upas-tree | |
| Of Grecian glamour and of Grecian shame! | |
| Soul of th’ undying dead! Arise, and hear | |
| The troubled cry of Israel that comes, | 10 |
| And quivers o’er his fathers’ ancient tombs, | |
| And perishes in night of Doubt and Fear; | |
| While East and West voice self-shaped destinies, | |
| Come, Great Deliverer, arise! arise! | | | | |
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