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SCENE II.

The Synagogue crowded with worshippers. Among the

women in the Gallery are discovered Iaeshajd yon Obb and Glaibe Gbbsseijk. Below, among the men, Suss- KiND YON Obb and Rsxtbek. At the Reader^ s Desk^ Rabbi Jacob. Fronting the audience under the Ark of the Covenant, stands a high desk, behind which is seen the white head of an old man boused in prayer, Babuch

and Naphtau enter and take their seats.

BABUCH.

Think you he speaks before the serYice ?

KAFHTALI.

Yea. Lo, phantom-like the towering patriarch !
[Rabbi Cbesselin slowly rises beneath the Ark,

RABBI GBESSELIN.

Woe onto Israel I woe unto all
Abiding 'mid strange peoples ! Ye shall be
Cat off from that land where ye made jour home.
I, Cresselin of Clhinon, haYe traYeled far.
Thence where my fathers dwelt, to warn my race.
For whom the fire and stake haYe been prepared.
Our brethren of Verdun, all OYer France,
Are burned aliYe beneath the 6oyim*8 torch.
What terrors haYe I witnessed, ere my sight
Was mercifully quenched I In Gki.scony,