Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.
The Old Jew
By Maxwell Bodenheim
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Which tamed even the doctors with its pure fire.
They examined him; made him bow to them:
Massive altars were they, at whose swollen feet grovelled a worshiper.
Then they laughed, half in scorn of him; and there came a miracle.
The little man was above them at a bound.
His austerity, like an irresistible sledge-hammer, drove them lower and lower:
They dwindled while he soared.