| Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917. | | | | Judah | | By George R. Du Bois |
| | | WHILE the tribes of earth yet in the darkness groped, | |
| Ere iron savagery set free, | |
| O Judah! had’st thou with science coped | |
| In law and poesy. | |
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| God’s chosen people, thy songs are sung | 5 |
| In the great world to-day; | |
| In every clime, in every tongue, | |
| Thy name shall last for aye! | |
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| Since time began, yea, when the earth | |
| We’re told was very young, | 10 |
| Fair Judah flourished and gave birth | |
| To wise men who have sung— | |
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| Psalms wherein human longings bring | |
| Home to each heart to-day | |
| The unspoken hope, the desire to cling | 15 |
| To a Higher Power alway. | |
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| Strong nations rise at last to fall | |
| Beneath the strokes of Fate; | |
| But Judah rises like a wall— | |
| Invincible ’gainst hate. | 20 |
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| Two thousand years have not sufficed, | |
| Tho’ of Fatherland despoiled, | |
| To destroy the race by all despised, | |
| Or tarnish a name unsoiled. | | | | |
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