Thou, that without a priest or sacrifice,

Ephod or temple, lone ’mid human kind,

Cleav’st to thy statutes with unswerving mind,

As though enthroned upon His mercy-seat,

The spreading of the cherubim between,

Jehovah yet were seen!

Hebrew, come forth! dread not the light of day,

Dread not the insulter’s cry;

The arch that rose o’er thy captivity

No more shall turn thee from thy destined way.”