Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ISRAELITE, by SEM TOB


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ISRAELITE, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The rose that twines a thorny sprig
Last Line: Because they issue from a jew.
Alternate Author Name(s): Santob De Carrion; Santo, Don
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Judaism


THE rose that twines a thorny sprig
Will not the less perfume the earth;
Good wine that leaves a creeping twig
Is not the worse for humble birth.

The hawk may be of noble kind
That from a soiled eyrie flew,
And precepts are not the less refined
Because they issue from a Jew.





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