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| SEE how the people of Israel come trooping, | |
| Waving like victors their banners on high; | |
| Joy has uplifted the hearts that were drooping, | |
| Promise enkindled the light in the eye. | |
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| Waking at length from the slumbers of ages, | 5 |
| Eager they turn to welcome the light, | |
| Making the dreams of their poets and sages | |
| Gloriously true with their zeal and their might. | |
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| Straight grow the backs that with stooping were doubled, | |
| Noble and straight as the cedar and pine; | 10 |
| Cleared are the brows which affliction sore troubled, | |
| Glad as the viners, who taste the new wine. | |
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| Hope has welled up in their hearts like a fountain, | |
| Bursting with power its way to the sun; | |
| Freedom has come like bright dawn on the mountain, | 15 |
| Flushed with the glow of its triumphs begun. | |
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| David, behold, to thy stronghold on Zion, | |
| Speed they like runners who make for their goal, | |
| Bearing the flag of the Judean lion, | |
| Bearing a spirit as bold in the soul. | 20 |
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| As to thy temple, O Israel, returning, | |
| Leave they the shores which as aliens they trod, | |
| Ecstasy thrills them, all eager, all burning, | |
| Filled with the love of their land and their God. | |
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| Give to thy people the shield of salvation, | 25 |
| Favor, O Lord, thy anointed of old; | |
| Bring them together once more as a nation, | |
| Gather again in thy sheltering fold. | |
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