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Poems (Jordan)/Sorrow

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4640244Poems — SorrowRebecca Queen Jordan
SORROW
A child of no nation, whom all nations claim—
Though no welcoming smile may we feign,
For it enters our life-doors, nor tells why it came,
Though we question again and again.

A child and so helpless, with tear-wetted eyes,—
Tears which drop upon all that we hold—
Yet we nestle it close, and to muffle its cries
Ever closer our hearts will enfold.

A Jew is this wand'rer of royal descent,
In whose features enshadowed, we trace
The sure likeness to Him, who such bearer hath sent,
That we thus may remember His Face.