THE BANNER OF THE JEWS
(By Emma Lazarus)
Wake, Israel, Wake! Recall to-day
The Glorious Maccabean rage,
The sire heroic, hoary-gray,
His five-fold lion-lineage,
The wise, the elect, the Help-of-God,
The burst of Spring, the Avenging Rod.
From Murpeh’s mountain ridge they saw
Jerusalem’s empty streets: her shrine