| Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917. | | | | On the Russian Persecution of the Jews | | By Algernon Charles Swinburne |
| | | O SON of man, by lying tongues adored, | |
| By slaughterous hands of slaves with feet red-shod | |
| In carnage deep as Christian ever trod | |
| Profaned with prayer and sacrifice abhorred | |
| And incense from the trembling tyrant’s horde, | 5 |
| Brute worshippers or wielders of the rod, | |
| Most murderous even of all that call thee God, | |
| Most treacherous even that ever called thee Lord; | |
| Face loved of little children long ago, | |
| Head hated of the priests and rulers then, | 10 |
| If thou see this, or hear these hounds of thine | |
| Run ravening as the Gadarean swine, | |
| Say, was not this thy Passion, to foreknow | |
| In death’s worst hour the works of Christian men? | | | | |
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