Algernon Charles Swinburne - On the Russian Persecution of the Jews lyrics

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Algernon Charles Swinburne - On the Russian Persecution of the Jews lyrics

O son of man, by lying tongues adored, By slaughterous hands of slaves with feet red-shod In carnage deep as ever Christian trod Profaned with prayer and sacrifice abhorred And incense from the trembling tyrant's horde, Brute worshippers of wielders of the rod, Most murderous even of all that call thee God, Most treacherous even that ever called thee Lord;-- Face loved of little children long ago, Head hated of the priests and rulers then, If thou see this, or hear these hounds of thine Run ravening as the Gadarean swine, Say, was not this thy Pa**ion to foreknow In d**h's worst hour the works of Christian men?