| Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917. | | | | France’s Shame | | By B. B. Usher |
| | | TALK not of Christian France, lest mantling shame | |
| Glow in its fiery blush to burning flame, | |
| And on the altar of the wide world’s ire | |
| Doom French injustice to eternal fire. | |
| With public scorn we loath the vengeful lust | 5 |
| In which French soldiers have betrayed their trust, | |
| And bide the time when in the coming years | |
| Her infamy is purged with bloody tears. | |
| All nations call for justice to the Jew, | |
| Condemn the false, and magnify the true. | 10 |
| ’Tis Israel’s triumph, never more complete; | |
| “Conviction” has brought victory, to France, defeat. | |
| The world judges, France now bears the shame | |
| And Dreyfus glories in unsullied name. | |
| Let God avenge and man restrain his hate, | 15 |
| Jehovah’s justice is immaculate; | |
| Abide in faith and in the end we must | |
| See France degraded, humbled in the dust. | | | | |
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