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Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917.

By Alfred Tennyson

The High Priest to Alexander

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

Upon thy diadem:

Go, forth to conquest go,

But spare Jerusalem.

For the God of gods, which liveth

Through all eternity,

’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

In His Holy of Holies for ever!

For God is Salem’s spear,

And God is Salem’s sword;

What mortal man shall dare

To combat with the Lord?

Every knee shall bow

Before His awful sight;

Every thought sink low

Before the Lord of might.

For the God of gods, which liveth

Through all eternity,

’Tis He alone which giveth

And taketh victory:

’Tis He the bow that blazeth,

And breaketh the proud one’s quiver;

And the Lord of armies resteth

In His Holy of Holies for ever!