ALLENBY
(JERUSALEM, 1917)
HUSH! over the City of David
A silence seems to fall,
And down the long sealed ages
There comes a far, clear call:
"ALLENBY, conqueror, hero!"
He comes in Christian state;
Uncovered and reverend, he enters
Through the Holy City's gate.
A silence seems to fall,
And down the long sealed ages
There comes a far, clear call:
"ALLENBY, conqueror, hero!"
He comes in Christian state;
Uncovered and reverend, he enters
Through the Holy City's gate.
Never a cannon has thundered
'Gainst the haunts that men revere—
The Sepulchre, hallowed and holy,
Golgotha, Gethsemane drear;
He has won them, this new crusader,
With never a battle scar,
And he sets in the place of the crescent
The Christian's risen Star.
'Gainst the haunts that men revere—
The Sepulchre, hallowed and holy,
Golgotha, Gethsemane drear;
He has won them, this new crusader,
With never a battle scar,
And he sets in the place of the crescent
The Christian's risen Star.
And high on the heights of the eons
There watches a serried host—
Those who conquered the city
Far back in the ages lost.
There Shishak of Egypt frowns darkly
To see where his warriors trod,
And Nebuchadnezzar remembers
How he pillaged the City of God.
There watches a serried host—
Those who conquered the city
Far back in the ages lost.
There Shishak of Egypt frowns darkly
To see where his warriors trod,
And Nebuchadnezzar remembers
How he pillaged the City of God.
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