Israel

: James J. Ryan

ISRAEL

Nomads, wood-carriers, and camel-drivers,

Aliens wandering twixt mighty foes,

A homeless race! did anyone suppose

Their history would live to be the Scriptures?

A narrow moody people, by all others

Scorned, cheated, and dispersed; but still the one

Great thought persisting, changeless as the sun -

God is the father and all men are brothers!