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Aaron Ben Mier loquitur	A
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If I remember Raschi An I live	B
Grandson to bless thy grandchild I'll forget	C
Never that youth and what he did for Prague	D
Aye aye I know he slurred a certain verse	E
In such and such a prayer omitted quite	F
To stand erect there where the ritual	G
Commands us rise and bow towards the East	H
Therefore the ingrates brand him heterodox	I
Neglect his memory whose virtue saved	J
Each knave of us alive Not I forget	C
No more does God who wrought a miracle	G
For his dear sake The Passover was here	A
Raschi just wedded with the fair Rebekah	D
Bode but the lapsing of the holy week	D
For homeward journey with his bride to France	K
The sacred meal was spread All sat at board	L
Within the house of Rabbi Jochanan	M
The kind old priest his noble new found son	M
Whose name was wrung in every key of praise	N
By every voice in Prague from Duke to serf	O
Save the vindictive bigot Narzerad	L
The beautiful young wife whose cup of joy	P
Sparkled at brim next her the vacant chair	A
Awaited the Messiah who unannounced	L
In God's good time shall take his place with us	Q
Now when the Rabbi reached the verse where one	M
Shall rise from table flinging wide the door	A
To give the Prophet entrance if so be	R
The glorious hour have sounded Raschi rose	S
Pale grave yet glad with great expectancy	R
Crossed the hushed room and with a joyous smile	T
To greet the Saviour opened the door	A
A curse	E
A cry Revenged a thrust a stifled moan	M
The sheathing of a poniard that was all	U
In the dark vestibule a fleeing form	V
Masked gowned in black and in the room of prayer	A
Raschi face downward on the stone cold floor	A
Bleeding his life out Oh what a cry was that	L
Folk shuddered hearing roods off in the street	L
Wherewith Rebekah rushed to raise her lord	L
Kneeling beside him striving in vain to quench	W
With turban veil torn shreds of gown stained hands	X
The black blood's sickening gush He never spoke	D
Never rewarded with one glance of life	Y
The passion in her eyes He met his end	L
Even as beneath the sickle the full ear	A
Bows to its death so beautiful silent ripe	Z
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Well we poor Jews must gulp our injuries	A2
Howe'er they choke us What redress in Prague	D
For the inhuman murder A strange Jew	B2
The victim the suspected criminal	G
The ducal counselor Such odds forbade	L
Revenge or justice We forbore to seek	D
The priest discrowned o' the glory of his age	C2
The widow bride mourned as though smitten of God	L
Gave forth they would with solemn obsequies	A2
Bury their dead and crave no help from man	M
Now of what chanced betwixt the night of murder	A
And the appointed burial I can give	D2
Only the sum of gossip servants' tales	A2
Neighbors' reports close confidences leaked	L
From friends and kindred Night and day folk said	L
Rebekah wept prayed fasted by the corpse	A2
Three mortal days Upon the third her eyes	A2
Sunk in their pits glimmered with wild strange fire	A
She started from her place beside the dead	L
Kissed clay cold brow cheeks lids and lips once more	A
And with a maniac's wan heart breaking smile	T
Veiled hooded glided through the twilight streets	A2
A sable shadow From the willow grove	E2
Close by the Moldau's brink beyond the bridge	F2
Her trace was lost 'T was evening and mild May	G2
Air full of spring skies perfect as a pearl	H2
Yet one who saw her pass amidst the shades	A2
O' the blue gray branches swears a sudden flame	I2
As of miraculous lightning thrilled through heaven	M
One hour thereafter she reentered Prague	D
Slid swiftly through the streets as though borne on	M
By ankle wings or floating on soft cloud	L
Smiling no more but with illumined eyes	A2
Transfigured brow grave lips and faltering limbs	A2
So came into the room where Raschi lay	G2
Stretched 'twixt tall tapers lit at head and foot	L
She held in both hands leafy flowerless plants	A2
Some she had fastened in her twisted hair	A
Stuck others in her girdle and from all	U
Issued a racy odor pungent sweet	L
The living soul of Spring Death's chamber seemed	L
As though clear sunshine and a singing bird	L
Therein had entered From the precious herb	J2
She poured into a golden bowl the sap	K2
Sparkling like wine then with a soundless prayer	A
White as the dead herself she held the cup	L2
To Raschi's mouth A quick small flame sprang up	L2
From the enchanted balsam died away	G2
And lo the color dawned in cheek and lips	A2
The life returned the sealed blind lids were raised	L
And in the glorious eyes love reawoke	D
And looking up met love	M2
So runs the tale	N2
Mocked by the worldly wise but I believe	O2
Knowing the miracles the Lord hath wrought	L
In every age for Jacob's seed Moreover	A
I with the highest and meanest Jew in Prague	D
Was at the burial No man saw the dead	L
Sealed was the coffin ere the rites began	M
And none could swear it went not empty down	M
Into the hollow earth Too shrewd our priest	L
To publish such a wonder and expose	A2
That consecrated life to second death	P2
Scarce were the thirty days of mourning sped	L
When we awoke to find his home left bare	A
Rebekah and her father fled from Prague	D
God grant they had glad meeting otherwhere	A

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