| Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917. | | | | The False Hope | | By Horace M. Kallen |
| | | | “Zionism’s only Hope is in the Jews of America.”—NORDAU. |
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METHOUGHT I saw the heavy eyelids rise, | |
| The Midased face shine clear of its gilt dream | |
| The lightning gaze that should beseem | |
| The answerer; the flash shall fire the skies | |
| With beauty of a mighty heart that flies | 5 |
| Strong with its hope and in its strength supreme | |
| With its own life a people’s life redeem, | |
| Ordained and sealed unto this enterprise. | |
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| This great thing was: dear God! what doth enhance | |
| The swinish sleep, the dream, the easihead! | 10 |
| What turns him from the master—Circumstance | |
| To slumber and a trough of unearned bread! | |
| O sluggard, spendthrift of the fateful Chance! | |
| O shameless shame of our heroic dead. | | | |
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