Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917. | | The Jew to Jesus | By Florence Kiper Frank |
| O MAN of my own people, I alone | |
Among these alien ones can know thy face, | |
I who have felt the kinship of our race | |
Burn in me as I sit where they intone | |
Thy praises,those who, striving to make known | 5 |
A God for sacrifice, have missed the grace | |
Of thy sweet human meaning in its place, | |
Thou who art of our blood-bond and our own. | |
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Are we not sharers of thy Passion? Yea, | |
In spirit-anguish closely by thy side | 10 |
We have drained the bitter cup, and, tortured, felt | |
With thee the bruising of each heavy welt. | |
In every land is our Gethsemane. | |
A thousand times have we been crucified. | | | |
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