[¹] The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, by William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle. Volume iii. ... London ... 1914, pp. 68–69.
LXII.
A Hebrew Address to Queen Victoria (1849)
Translated Extract from an Address of Russian Jews in Safed on their coming under England’s protection, 1849.
(After compliments to the Consul in Jerusalem.)
“We acknowledge to the Lord and praise Him that He has put it into the heart of the Glory the Pity of the mighty Crowned Queen, the pious, the precious, the upright who reigns over the provinces of England and its dependencies, to do good to the people of Israel and to succour them with every kind of aid, for great and small, and to defend them from those that rise up against them.
“With a perfect heart
Of mercy and loving kindness;
And with the tips of the wings of Mercy