Now love, now pride—each lineament.
Thine is the faith thy fathers bore—
A heritage despised, contemned—
The fearful curse still lingers o’er
Israel’s outcast tribes condemned.
Thine is their faith—but dost thou deem
Thy soul is with the Nazarene?”
“False Prophet! had Ben Ezra’s ear
But heard thy lying prophecy,
Thou stand’st not, Heaven-daring here,