Were My Bosom as False as Thou Deemst It To Be
by George Gordon, Lord Byron
(From Hebrew Melodies - 1815)
1
- Were my bosom as false as thou deemst it to be,
- I need not have wanderd from far Galilee;
- It was but abjuring my creed to efface
- The curse which, thou sayst, is the crime of my race.
2
- If the bad never triumph, then God is with thee!
- If the slave only sin, thou art spotless and free!
- If the Exile on earth is an Outcast on high,
- Live on in thy faith, but in mine I will die.
3
- I have lost for that faith more than thou canst bestow,
- As the God who permits thee to prosper doth know;
- In his hand is my heart and my hopeand in thine
- The land and the life which for him I resign.
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