| Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917. | | | | The Right of Asylum | | By Stephen Phillips |
| | | EASY the cry while vengeance now is wrought | |
| And from his lair the Anarchist is burned. | |
| “Shut be our harbors, closed be every port | |
| And from our shore be every alien turned.” | |
| Yet while the clamor and the pursuit is hot | 5 |
| And public anger public madness breeds, | |
| Be it not soon nor easily forgot | |
| That England thus an ancient title cedes. | |
| For centuries a pillow hath she spread | |
| For all that widowed goes and wandering | 10 |
| And in her lap hath laid the unhappy head | |
| Or broken Statesman and of outcast King. | |
| Shall she alarmed by that small horde deny | |
| This old sea-haven to world-misery? | | | | |
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