| Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917. | | | | The Arch of Titus | | By Harry Wolfsohn (Trans. Horace M. Kallen from the Hebrew) |
| | | CRUMBLING, age-worn, in Rome the eternal, | |
| Stands the arch of Titus’ triumph, | |
| With its carven Jewish captives | |
| Shouldering the holy Menorah. | |
| And each nightfall, when the turmoil | 5 |
| Of the Petrine clangor ceaseth, | |
| Seven flames the arch illumine, | |
| Mystic glowings, burning strangely. | |
| Then cast off their graven shackles, | |
| Judah’s sons of marble graven, | 10 |
| Living step they from the ruin, | |
| Living stride they from the Jordan. | |
| They are healed in its waters, | |
| Till the freshness of each dawning, | |
| Then resume their ancient labor, | 15 |
| Perfect marble, whole and holy. | |
| Dust of dust the wheeling seasons | |
| Grind that mighty archéd splendor, | |
| Rase the Gaul and rase the Roman, | |
| Grind away their fame and glory, | 20 |
| The shackled Jews alone withstand them, | |
| Shouldering their holy Menorah. | | | | |
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