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\u201cBy the Waters of Babylon\u201d
\nby Emma Lazarus<\/p>\n

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Little Poems in Prose<\/em><\/p>\n

I. The Exodus. (August 3, 1492.)<\/p>\n

1. The Spanish noon is a blaze of azure fire, and the dusty pilgrims crawl like an endless serpent along treeless plains and bleached highroads, through rock-split ravines and castellated, cathedral-shadowed towns.<\/p>\n

2. The hoary patriarch, wrinkled as an almond shell, bows painfully upon his staff. The beautiful young mother, ivory-pale, well-nigh swoons beneath her burden; in her large enfolding arms nestles her sleeping babe, round her knees flock her little ones with bruised and bleeding feet. \u201cMother, shall we soon be there?\u201d<\/p>\n

3. The youth with Christ-like countenance speaks comfortably to father and brother, to maiden and wife. In his breast, his own heart is broken.<\/p>\n

4. The halt, the blind, are amid the train. Sturdy pack-horses laboriously drag the tented wagons wherein lie the sick athirst with fever.<\/p>\n

5. The panting mules are urged forward with spur and goad; stuffed are the heavy saddlebags with the wreckage of ruined homes.<\/p>\n

6. Hark to the tinkling silver bells that adorn the tenderly-carried silken scrolls.<\/p>\n

7. In the fierce noon-glare a lad bears a kindled lamp; behind its network of bronze the airs of heaven breathe not upon its faint purple star.<\/p>\n

8. Noble and abject, learned and simple, illustrious and obscure, plod side by side, all brothers now, all merged in one routed army of misfortune.<\/p>\n

9. Woe to the straggler who falls by the wayside! no friend shall close his eyes.<\/p>\n

10. They leave behind, the grape, the olive, and the fig; the vines they planted, the corn they sowed, the garden-cities of Andalusia and Aragon, Estremadura and La Mancha, of Granada and Castile; the altar, the hearth, and the grave of their fathers.<\/p>\n

11. The townsman spits at their garments, the shepherd quits his flock, the peasant his plow, to pelt with curses and stones; the villager sets on their trail his yelping cur.<\/p>\n

12. Oh the weary march, oh the uptorn roots of home, oh the blankness of the receding goal!<\/p>\n

13. Listen to their lamentation:\u00a0They that ate dainty food are desolate in the streets; they that were reared in scarlet embrace dunghills. They flee away and wander about. Men say among the nations, they shall no more sojourn there; our end is near, our days are full, our doom is come.<\/i><\/p>\n

14. Whither shall they turn? for the West hath cast them out, and the East refuseth to receive.<\/p>\n

15. O bird of the air, whisper to the despairing exiles, that to-day, to-day, from the many-masted, gayly-bannered port of Palos, sails the world-unveiling Genoese, to unlock the golden gates of sunset and bequeath a Continent to Freedom!<\/p>\n

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Jason Novak works at a grocery store in Berkeley, California, and changes diapers in his spare time.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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