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CHRISTIAN AND JEW.
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"But Zion said:
My Lord forgetteth me.
Lo, she hath made her bed
In dust; forsaken weepeth she
Where alien rivers swell the sea.

"She laid her body as the ground,
Her tender body as the ground to those
Who passed; her harpstrings cannot sound
In a strange land; discrowned
She sits, and drunk with woes."—

"O drunken not with wine,
Whose sins and sorrows have fulfilled the sum,
Be not afraid, arise, be no more dumb;
Arise, shine,
For thy light is come."—

"Can these bones live?"—
"Can these bones live?"—"God knows:
The prophet saw such clothed with flesh and skin;
A wind blew on them, and life entered in;
They shook and rose.
Hasten the time, O Lord, blot out their sin,
Let life begin."