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The Jew

Moses, from whose loins I sprung,
    Lit by a lamp in his blood
    Ten immutable rules, a moon
    For mutable lampless men.

    The blonde, the bronze, the ruddy,
    With the same heaving blood,
    Keep tide to the moon of Moses.
    Then why do they sneer at me?

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