| Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917. | | | | The Jews Weeping in Jerusalem | | By James Wallis Eastburn |
| | | WHY, trembling and sad, dost thou stand there and mourn, | |
| Son of Israel, the days that can never return? | |
| And why do those tear-drops of misery fall | |
| On the mouldering ruin, the perishing wall? | |
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| Was yon city, in robes of the heathen now clad, | 5 |
| Once the flourishing Zion, where Judah was glad? | |
| And those walls, that disjointed and scattered now lie, | |
| Were they once vowed to Heaven and hallowed on high? | |
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| Yet why dost thou mourn? Oh, to gladness awaken! | |
| Though Jehovah this city of God has forsaken, | 10 |
| He preserves for His people a city more fair, | |
| Which a ruthless invader no longer shall share. | |
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| No longer the tear for your city shall flow; | |
| No longer thy bosom the sad sigh bestow; | |
| But night shall be followed by glorious day, | 15 |
| And sorrow and sighing shall vanish away. | | | | |
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