Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917. | | Israel in Russia | By Arthur Guiterman |
| THOU art but One! O God to Whom we bow | |
In adoration; | |
Een as in Egypt, Thou wilt hear us now | |
Thy Chosen Nation. | |
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Much have we sinned; far from Thy face have fled, | 5 |
By passion driven. | |
Deep our repentance; Thou myself hast said | |
We are forgiven. | |
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Empires of old upon us heaped their chains, | |
Burthens and lashes; | 10 |
Thy thunders rolledand of their might remains | |
Stubble and ashes! | |
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Still those we taught to hold Thy Name in awe | |
Smite and berate us; | |
We are the leash that binds them to Thy Law | 15 |
Wherefore they hate us! | |
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Vengeance is Thine! yet Thine is mercy, too. | |
Shield us, but grieve them | |
Not! be our prayer: They know not what they do. | |
Father! forgive them! | 20 | | |
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