"Abolish Moses, if ye will; destroy The great traditions of your fathers; say Abraham was naught, naught Isaac, Jacob, all The patriarchs, heroes, martyrs, prophets, kings; That Seed of Abraham naught, our nation's Hope, Foretold to be an universal King; Make one wide blank and void, an emptied page, Of all the awful glories of our past-- Deliverance out of Egypt, miracle On miracle wrought dreadfully for us Against our foes, path cloven through the sea, Jehovah in the pillar of cloud and fire, And host of Pharaoh mightily overthrown; The law proclaimed on Sinai amid sound And light insufferable and angels nigh Attending; manna in the wilderness; The rock that lived and moved and followed them, Our fathers, flowing water in the waste-- Obliterate at a stroke whatever sets The seal of God upon you as His own, And marks you different from the heathen round-- Shekinah fixed between the cherubim, The vacant Holy of Holies filled with God, The morning and the evening sacrifice, Priest, altar, incense, choral hymn and psalm, Confused melodious noise of instruments Together sounding the high praise of God; All this, with more I will not stay to tell, This temple itself with its magnificence, The hope of Him foreshown, the Messenger Of that eternal covenant wherein Your souls delight themselves, Who suddenly One day shall come unto His temple--blot, Expunge, erase, efface, consent to be No more a people, mix and merge yourselves With aliens, blood that in your veins flows pure All the long way one stream continuous down From Abraham called the friend of God--such blood Adulterate in the idolatrous, corrupt Pool of the Gentiles--men of Israel! Or are ye men? and are ye Israel? I stand in doubt of you--I stand in doubt Of kinsmen mine supposed that bide to hear Such things as seems that ye with pleasure hear! "Say, know ye not they mean to take away Your place and name? Are ye so blind? Or are Ye only base poor creatures caring not Though knowing well? Oft have ye seen the fat Of lambs upon the flaming altar fume One instant and in fume consume away; So swiftly and so utterly shall pass, In vapor of smoke, the glorious excellency, The pomp, the pride, nay, but the being itself, Of this our nation from beneath the sun, Let once the hideous doctrine of a Christ Condemned and crucified usurp the place In Hebrew hearts of that undying hope We cherish of Messiah yet to reign In power and glory more than Solomon's, From sunrise round to sunrise without end, And tread the Gentiles underneath our feet."