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

By Alfred Tennyson

The High Priest to Alexander

  • “Derrame en todo el orbe de la tierra
  • Las armas, el furor, y nueva guerra.”
  • La Araucana, Canto xvi.

  • GO forth! thou man of force!

    The world is all thine own;

    Before thy dreadful course

    Shall totter every throne.

    Let India’s jewels glow

    Upon thy diadem:

    Go, forth to conquest go,

    But spare Jerusalem.

    For the God of gods, which liveth

    Through all eternity,

    ’Tis He alone which giveth

    And taketh victory:

    ’Tis He the bow that blasteth,

    And breaketh the proud one’s quiver;

    And the Lord of armies resteth

    In His Holy of Holies for ever!

    For God is Salem’s spear,

    And God is Salem’s sword;

    What mortal man shall dare

    To combat with the Lord?

    Every knee shall bow

    Before His awful sight;

    Every thought sink low

    Before the Lord of might.

    For the God of gods, which liveth

    Through all eternity,

    ’Tis He alone which giveth

    And taketh victory:

    ’Tis He the bow that blazeth,

    And breaketh the proud one’s quiver;

    And the Lord of armies resteth

    In His Holy of Holies for ever!