Biblical, post-Holocaust question #5
Oh, Moses, on Mount Nebo
If you’d seen Israel flow
Rupture, profusely bleed
And coagulate through centuries,
If you’d seen beyond the great sea
Into the bowels of Europe,
What would you have told
God at the end?
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Oh, Moses, on Mount Nebo
If you’d seen Israel flow
Rupture, profusely bleed
And coagulate through centuries,
If you’d seen beyond the great sea
Into the bowels of Europe,
What would you have told
God at the end?
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