Uri Zvi Gruenberg, one of the most powerful and original of the younger Palestinian poets, is considered the poet of the Revisionist movement there. The present poem is translated from the Hebrew by Jacob Sloan.
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We have reached might with our giving.
We have reached the sky with our planes.
But we have brought no platter of wonders
Down to the bottom of our living.
The Mothers have sung about it and sung:
There will come a golden kid one of these
hours,
Come laden with treasures and wonderful
dowers;
The kid never came, and is never coming.
There’s a pair of black horses one of these
hours.
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