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![]() Images of Us Images of Friends Gallery by Glas |
![]() By the rivers of Babylon we sat mourning and weeping when we remembered Zion. |
![]() On the poplars of that land we hung up our harps. | ![]() There our captors asked us for the words of a song; |
![]() Our tormentors, for a joyful song: "Sing for us a song of Zion!" | ![]() But how could we sing a song of the LORD in a foreign land? |
![]() If I forget you, Jerusalem, may my right hand wither. | ![]() May my tongue stick to my palate if I do not remember you, |
![]() If I do not exalt Jerusalem beyond all my delights. | ![]() Remember, LORD, against Edom that day at Jerusalem. |
![]() They said: "Level it, level it down to its foundations!" | ![]() Fair Babylon, you destroyer, happy those who pay you back the evil you have done us! |
![]() Happy those who seize your children and smash them against a rock. | ![]() The river's tent is broken; the last fingers of leaf |
![]() Clutch and sink into the wet bank. The wind | ![]() Crosses the brown land, unheard. The nymphs are departed. |
![]() Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song. | ![]() The river bears no empty bottles, sandwich papers, |
![]() Silk handkerchiefs, cardboard boxes, cigarette ends | ![]() Or other testimony of summer nights. The nymphs are departed. |
![]() Quotes from Psalms 137 and T.S. Eliot's 'The Wasteland' |