BY THE WATERS OF BABYLON.
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10. Who cmvrla blinking forth from the loath- MHne recessea of the Jewry ;
11. Nerveless his fingers, puny hig frame ; haunted by the bat^like phantoms of superstition is his brain. *
12. Thou shalt say to the bigot, " My Brother," and to the creature of darkness, " My Friend."
13. And thy heart shall spend itself in foun- taina of love upon the ignorant, the coarse, and the abject.
14. Then in the obacority thou shalt hear a rush of wings, thine eyes shall be bitten with pongent smoke.
15. And close against thy quivering lips shall be pressed the li?e coal wherewith the Seraphim brand the Propbets.
TIL CHRYSALIS.
1. LoNQ, long has the OrienUTew apon around his helpteasneaa the cunningly enmeshed web of Talmud and Kabbala.
2. Imprisoned in dark comers of misery and oppression, closely he drew about him the dusl^ gray filaments, soft as silk and stubborn as steel, until he lay death-stiffened in mummied seclusion.
3. And the world has named him an ugly worm, shunning the bleaaed daylight.
4. But when the emancipating springtide