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Wake, Israel, wake! Recall to-day / The glorious Maccabean rage, / The sire heroic, hoary-gray, / His five-fold lion-lineage: / The Wise, the Elect, the Help-of-God, / The Burst-of-Spring, the Avenging Rod.*
From Mizpeh's mountain-ridge they saw / Jerusalem's empty streets, her shrine / Laid waste where Greeks profaned the Law, / With idol and with pagan sign. / Mourners in tattered black were there, / With ashes sprinkled on their hair.