Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917.
By Alfred TennysonThe High Priest to Alexander
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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!
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!