<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=419510" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Maid Of Jerusalem</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Maid of Jerusalem, by the Dead Sea,<br>I wandered all sorrowing thinking of thee,--<br>Thy city in ruins, thy kindred deplored,<br>All fallen and lost by the Ottoman's sword.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I saw thee sit there in disconsolate sighs,<br>Where the hall of thy fathers a ruined heap lies.<br>Thy fair finger showed me the place where they trod,<br>In thy childhood where flourished the city of God.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The place where they fell and the scenes where they lie,<br>In the tomb of Siloa--the tear in her eye<br>She stifled: transfixed there it grew like a pearl,<br>Beneath the dark lash of the sweet Jewish Girl.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Jerusalem is fallen! still thou art in bloom,<br>As fresh as the ivy around the lone tomb,<br>And fair as the lily of morning that waves<br>Its sweet-scented bells over desolate graves.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When I think of Jerusalem in kingdoms yet free,<br>I shall think of its ruins and think upon thee;<br>Thou beautiful Jewess, content thou mayest roam;<br>A bright spot in Eden still blooms as thy home.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Clare">John Clare</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=419510" data-title="The Maid Of Jerusalem de John Clare" data-description="Maid of Jerusalem, by the Dead Sea, I wandered all sorrowing thinking of thee,-- Thy city in ruins, thy kindred deplored, All fallen and lost by the Ottoman's sword. I saw thee sit there in disconsolate sighs, Where the hall of thy fathers a ruin..."></div> </div> </div>

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