Where is thy home in thy promised land? <br />Desolate and forsaken! <br />The stranger's arm hath seized thy brand, <br />Thou art bowed beneath the stranger's hand, <br />And the stranger thy birthright hath taken. <br />Where is the mark of thy chosen race? <br />Infamous and degraded! <br />It hath fallen on thee, on thy dwelling-place, <br />And that heaven-stamped sign to a foul disgrace <br />And the scoff of the world, has faded. <br />First-born of nations! upon thy brow, <br />Resistless and revenging, <br />The fiery finger of God hath now <br />Written the sentence of thy woe, <br />The innocent blood avenging! <br />Lion of Judah! thy glory is past, <br />Vanished and fled for ever. <br />Homeless and scattered, thy race is cast <br />Like chaff in the breath of the sweeping blast, <br />To rally or rise again, never!<br /><br />Frances Anne Kemble<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/lament-for-israel/
