caused the house to tremble. Then the father slew his son, and the husband, his wife. The last survivor embraced his slaughtered children, kissed them for the last time, threw himself on his knife and died. . . .
"The noble community of Worms Its fine spirits and immaculate ones, Twice, with awe, have sanctified the Name of the Unity; They gave up their souls with entwined love. Swifter than eagles and stronger than lions, The heroes of the glorious community of Mayence, Have sacrificed their souls for the unity of His tremendous name! "
Streams of blood, heaps of massacred Jews, numberless bodies. fromMayence, Worms and Speyer—from all the communities on theRhine.
"Angel of the Lord!" I desperately exclaimed, "Why hast thou not smitten me with blindness? Why hast thou opened my eyes to see all this terrific bloodshed? Show thou me, at least, the Jews' revenge on their murderers.
(To be Concluded in Our Next Number)
IN ISRAEL
A longing and sighing is trembling through the air, A hoping, a wishing, a sombreness is there, The whole world is luring the Wandering Jew away; An aching and straining, a struggle where he goes, A heaving and moaning with every wind that blows, An everlasting fray, In Israel to-day!
A palm-tree, an olive a'blowing in the breeze, A full herd a'lowing the ancient shepherd sees, A green field beside where the river Jordan rolled; A mountain, a valley, a wonder t'is to see, A'coming, a'going there's peace in Galilee, A quietness we're told, In Israel of old!