| Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917. | | | | Jeremiah, the Patriot | | By John Keble |
| | | | “Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans.”—Jer. xxxvii. 13. |
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THEY say, “The man is false, and falls away”: | |
| Yet sighs my soul in secret for their pride; | |
| Tears are mine hourly food, and night and day | |
| I plead for them, and may not be denied. | |
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| They say, “His words unnerve the warrior’s hand, | 5 |
| And dim the statesman’s eye and disunite | |
| The friends of Israel”; yet, in every land, | |
| My words, to Faith, are Peace, and Hope, and Might. | |
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| They say, “The frenzied one is fain to see | |
| Glooms of his own; and gathering storms afar;— | 10 |
| But dungeons deep, and fetters strong have we.” | |
| Alas! Heaven’s lightning would ye chain and bar? | |
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| Ye scorners of th’ Eternal! wait one hour; | |
| In His seer’s weakness ye shall see His power. | | | |
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