| Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917. | | | | Only a Jew | | By David Banks Sickles |
| | | NOBODY cares, for he’s only a Jew, | |
| Crush him with vengeance in sight of the cross! | |
| All of his allies are feeble and few, | |
| Vice is his jewel and virtue his dross. | |
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| Only a Jew, like the prophets of yore, | 5 |
| Bearing with patience his burdens and wrongs; | |
| Leader of liberty, maker of law, | |
| Singing with David the sweetest of songs. | |
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| Only a Jew, with his epics and art, | |
| Charming the ages with music divine; | 10 |
| Ravage his fireside and shiver his heart, | |
| ’Till he partakes of the bread and the wine. | |
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| Only a Jew—like the loved Nazarene, | |
| Full of forgiveness and pity for all; | |
| Giving them alms with a hand that’s unseen, | 15 |
| Lifting the weak when they totter and fall. | |
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| Only a Jew in the reign of thought, | |
| Winning his way in the ranks of the great; | |
| Marvels of beauty his genius has wrought, | |
| Cannot be blighted by passion or hate. | 20 | | | |
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