| Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917. | | | | In the Name of Jesus of Nazareth | | Anonymous |
| | (Christmas, 1890)
GLOWS once more in the Russian sky, the blood-red dawn of a day of hate— | |
| Shrills at the Throne of God, the cry of a people that faints ’neath its cross’s weight, | |
| Of a people hounded and done to death | |
| In the name of Jesus of Nazareth. | |
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| Bells are ringing and organs peal; a thousand choirs their hymns upraise; | 5 |
| Peasant and pope at the altar kneel, and lone, in his guarded palace, prays | |
| The fear-torn despot; and thus he saith: | |
| In the name of Jesus of Nazareth: | |
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| “Father in Heaven, thy reign of love come, and Thy will on this earth be done, | |
| Even as it is in Thy courts above. Forgive us, as we forgive everyone; | 10 |
| And tempt us never, but keep from scath | |
| In the name of Jesus of Nazareth.” | |
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| Up to God’s throne with the organ’s voice and the chime of bells, goes the mob’s fierce shout: | |
| Drowned are the hymns by the horrid noise of curses and groans and the thud of knout; | |
| For the tyrant’s prayer is a liar’s breath— | 15 |
| In the name of Jesus of Nazareth. | |
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| Christians, say, shall a savage Tsar blaspheme unchidden the name of Christ? | |
| Yours, not mine, is this holy war, by your faith in him that was sacrificed— | |
| By your faith that your souls may be saved from death | |
| In the Name of Jesus of Nazareth! | 20 |
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| One is the Father—his sons all men. These brothers of mine are your brothers, too; | |
| Save our brothers, I charge you, then, in their brother’s name whom the Romans slew— | |
| In his name, who forgave with his dying breath— | |
| My brother, Jesus of Nazareth. | | | | |
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