Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Daily Dose

From Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems, edited by John Hollander

BACK AGAIN

"Our softened voices send us back again
But mournful echoes through the empty hall:
Our footsteps have a strange unnatural sound,
And with unwonted gentleness they fall."

From In a Jewish Synagogue at Newport

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