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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=386671" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>In the Jewish Synagogue at Newport</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here, where the noises of the busy town, <br>The ocean's plunge and roar can enter not,<br>We stand and gaze around with tearful awe,<br>And muse upon the consecrated spot.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No signs of life are here: the very prayers<br>Inscribed around are in a language dead;<br>The light of the &quot;perpetual lamp&quot; is spent<br>That an undying radiance was to shed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What prayers were in this temple offered up,<br>Wrung from sad hearts that knew no joy on earth,<br>By these lone exiles of a thousand years,<br>From the fair sunrise land that gave them birth!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How as we gaze, in this new world of light,<br>Upon this relic of the days of old,<br>The present vanishes, and tropic bloom<br>And Eastern towns and temples we behold.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Again we see the patriarch with his flocks,<br>The purple seas, the hot blue sky o'erhead,<br>The slaves of Egypt, -- omens, mysteries, --<br>Dark fleeing hosts by flaming angels led.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A wondrous light upon a sky-kissed mount,<br>A man who reads Jehovah's written law,<br>'Midst blinding glory and effulgence rare,<br>Unto a people prone with reverent awe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The pride of luxury's barbaric pomp,<br>In the rich court of royal Solomon --<br>Alas! we wake: one scene alone remains, --<br>The exiles by the streams of Babylon.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our softened voices send us back again<br>But mournful echoes through the empty hall:<br>Our footsteps have a strange unnatural sound,<br>And with unwonted gentleness they fall.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The weary ones, the sad, the suffering,<br>All found their comfort in the holy place,<br>And children's gladness and men's gratitude<br>'Took voice and mingled in the chant of praise.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The funeral and the marriage, now, alas!<br>We know not which is sadder to recall;<br>For youth and happiness have followed age,<br>And green grass lieth gently over all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nathless the sacred shrine is holy yet,<br>With its lone floors where reverent feet once trod.<br>Take off your shoes as by the burning bush,<br>Before the mystery of death and God.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Emma+Lazarus">Emma Lazarus</a><div class=q>
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No signs of life are here: the very prayers
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