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Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917.

By William Blake

Mock on! Mock on!

MOCK on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau,

Mock on, mock on, ’tis all in vain;

You throw the sand against the wind

And the wind blows it back again.

And every sand becomes a gem

Reflected in the beams divine,

Blown back they blind the mocking eye

But still in Israel’s paths they shine.