| Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917. | | | | The High Priest to Alexander | | By Alfred Tennyson |
| | | | “Derrame en todo el orbe de la tierra |
| Las armas, el furor, y nueva guerra.” |
| La Araucana, Canto xvi. |
GO forth! thou man of force! | |
| The world is all thine own; | |
| Before thy dreadful course | |
| Shall totter every throne. | |
| Let India’s jewels glow | 5 |
| Upon thy diadem: | |
| Go, forth to conquest go, | |
| But spare Jerusalem. | |
| For the God of gods, which liveth | |
| Through all eternity, | 10 |
| ’Tis He alone which giveth | |
| And taketh victory: | |
| ’Tis He the bow that blasteth, | |
| And breaketh the proud one’s quiver; | |
| And the Lord of armies resteth | 15 |
| In His Holy of Holies for ever! | |
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| For God is Salem’s spear, | |
| And God is Salem’s sword; | |
| What mortal man shall dare | |
| To combat with the Lord? | 20 |
| Every knee shall bow | |
| Before His awful sight; | |
| Every thought sink low | |
| Before the Lord of might. | |
| For the God of gods, which liveth | 25 |
| Through all eternity, | |
| ’Tis He alone which giveth | |
| And taketh victory: | |
| ’Tis He the bow that blazeth, | |
| And breaketh the proud one’s quiver; | 30 |
| And the Lord of armies resteth | |
| In His Holy of Holies for ever! | | | | |
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