| Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917. | | | | Judea | | By Charles M. Wallington |
| | | I SAW in rift of cloud a beaming light | |
| That spread soft radiance over Judea’s plain, | |
| Where mother of a race watched sunny rain | |
| Before red flashes told of stormy night. | |
| She looked afar, through misty ages vast, | 5 |
| And saw her progeny the scorn of men, | |
| Far scattered, trod to earth to rise again, | |
| And hold distinction, though the world should last | |
| Till sun and planets fell in void of time | |
| And light was scant as when the world was born. | 10 |
| She saw her sons surmount the stings of scorn | |
| With sad eyes and with brow of care; sublime | |
| In aspect her breast throbbing with new life; | |
| Beheld universal motherhood’s young | |
| Cease their dire bickerings, she stood among | 15 |
| The children of the earth unstirred by strife; | |
| Saw creeds lose force in the long ages’ span, | |
| One God, one hope, and peace o’erspread the earth, | |
| Regenerative man’s new heart at bright, | |
| The soul’s broad scope, and brotherhood of man. | 20 | | | |
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