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Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917.

By (Trans. Robert Needham Cust)

Patriotism

From the Persian

TO each his country dearer far

Than the throne of Solomon;

Thorns from home, too, dearer are

Than myrtle or than cinnamon.

Joseph, in the pride of State,

Ruling over Egypt’s strand

Sighed, and would have changed his fate

For poverty in Canaan’s Land.