Russia and the Jews

O MUSCOVITE, blind is your wrath, with

Your heel on the Israelite’s neck,

And your hand on that baleful old blade,

Persecution, ’twere wisdom to reck.

The Pharaoh’s calm warning, Beware!

Lo, the Pyramids pierce that grey gloom

Of a desert that is but a waste, by a river

That is but a tomb,

Yet the Hebrew abides and is strong.