Henry Wadsworth Longfellow traveled to Newport, Rhode Island in 1854. He wrote the following poem after he visited its famous Jewish cemetery.
The Jewish Cemetery at Newport
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
How came they here? What burst of Christian hate,
What persecution, merciless and blind,
Drove o'r the sea - that desert desolate -
These Ishmaels and Hagars of mankind?
They lived in narrow streets and lanes obscure,
They lived in narrow streets and lanes obscure,
Ghetto and Judenstrass, in murk and mire:
Taught in the school of patience to endure
The life of anguish and death of fire.
But ah! What once has been shall be no more!
The groaning earth in travail and in pain
Brings forth its races, but does not restore,
And the dead nations never rise again.
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