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| PATIENT in sorrow, and never repining, | |
| Bending submissively low to the blast; | |
| Conscious that Heaven is never designing | |
| That sickness or sorrow forever should last, | |
| Striving mid poverty, earnest and active, | 5 |
| Nerving his efforts, industrious and true, | |
| Spurning all wrong, howsoever attractive, | |
| Humble and pious, though “Only a Jew.” | |
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| Prosperity crowning his efforts and striving, | |
| See, Fortune, propitious, his industry bless; | 10 |
| To comfort and competence, haply arriving, | |
| Still earnest and active, his energies press. | |
| Gladly relieving all sorrow and anguish, | |
| While tears sympathetic his features bedew, | |
| Where sad ones in poverty and wretchedness languish, | 15 |
| God’s angel on earth—though “Only a Jew.” | |
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| Affectionate heart, throbs his bosom, e’er swelling | |
| For dear ones, who claim his attachment and love; | |
| An earthly Elysium, his Eden-like dwelling | |
| (A foretaste on earth of bright heaven above.) | 20 |
| Obedient his child life, now his children adore him; | |
| His wife, with affection, does life’s joys renew, | |
| The bright rays of happiness ever shine o’er him, | |
| As father, as husband, though “Only a Jew.” | |
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| Progressive in Science, in Art and in Learning; | 25 |
| Dispensing their benefits, near and afar— | |
| Till grateful, his worth now his country discerning | |
| He graces in honor the Senate—the Bar— | |
| Pleading in eloquence ’gainst every oppression; | |
| He strives for the “Right,” and does baseness pursue, | 30 |
| Yet “damned with faint praise,” he hears envy’s expression, | |
| After all, you must own, that he’s “Only a Jew.” | |
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| His tongue free from evil, his lips from deceiving, | |
| E’en to those who may spurn him his heart remains dumb; | |
| While sadly their bootless malignity grieving, | 35 |
| He knows that a time of Redemption will come. | |
| When shining again in Empyrean splendor, | |
| The glories of Israel will beam forth anew, | |
| Thus blessing in Life, does his blessed death render | |
| A pure soul to God, though he’s “Only a Jew.” | 40 |
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