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Return to your ancient past
Aid your sister with education and culture
And people of Israel will once more be a nation.
Awake, daughter of Babylon, mother of knowledge
Take up in your hand the pen…
Hanging her corals on the night she leaves
silent, possessing nothing.
A moon dives, a splash extinguished
in a wall of water.
Alone, just herself, the path
blown clean with white godhead
twists…
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned…
All the letters in this beautiful new prayer book,
from beginning to end, I set with my own hands.
Gele, daughter of R. Moses the printer
and Frau Freide, who bore me among ten children, may they…
My soul sighs, fate brings only trouble.
My spirit was lifted, and I grew bold.
I heard a voice: ‘Your poem is gold.
Who has learned to sing like you, Rachel?’
My spirit in turn replies: I’ve lost…
The word which came to Jeremiah for all the Judeans living in the land of Egypt, living in Migdol, Tah-panhes, and Noph, and in the land of Pathros:
Thus said the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel…
