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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=354891" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Babylonian Captivity</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">By far Euphrates’ stream we state, <br> A weary band of herded slaves, <br>And over Judah’s fallen estate <br> We wept into the passing waves. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">On willow-boughs that o’er us bent <br> Our once glad-sounding harps were hung, <br>That but the wild wind, as it went, <br> Might grieve their wailful chords among. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But they who spoiled us—even they <br> Who wasted us with daily wrongs, <br>To make them mirth did asking say: <br> “Come sing us one of Zion’s songs!” </div><div style="margin:10px 0">How can with us the will remain <br> To strike the harp with fettered hand? <br>How can we sing a joyful strain <br> As captives in a foreign land? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And when, Jerussalem! We let <br> Thy memory pass on Time’s grey wing, <br>May our right hands at once forget <br> Their mastery o’er the sounding string! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yea, let our tongues to song be dumb, <br> As in a dull and voiceless dream, <br>Till to thy courts again we come <br> And thy redemption be the theme! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then, Edom, thou shalt get thy wound! <br> For thou, on Zion’s evil day, <br>Saidst—“Raze her beauty to the ground, <br> And captive drive her sons away!” </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And lo! Yet fiercer visions rise, <br> The day is fixed, the hour is known, <br>When, Babylon! Thy fateful skies <br> Shall raid red wrath and ruin down! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Till by thy towers all overthrown, <br> Thy daughters, desolate as we, <br>Each with her shame shall sit alone, <br> With shame and wild-faced misery! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And then may the avenger dash <br> Thy children’s heads against stones; <br>For so, ’mid Zion’s falling crash, <br> Didst thou with all our little ones. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charles+Harpur">Charles Harpur</a><div class=q>
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 A weary band of herded slaves, 
And over Judah’s fallen estate 
 We wept into the passing waves. 

On willow-boughs that o’er us bent 
 Our once glad-sounding harps were hung, 
That but the wild wind, as ..."></div>
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