The Ashkenazi Revolution

120The entire Earth is full of injustice,It is flooded with blood; -No, it is impossible for it to continueLike this for very long –No, I can no longer hold backSpeedily, in a moment toward you;To the throne I shall approach,Straight to the king.After the sadistic ridicule of a Jew who wishes to bring salvation to hispeople, the satanic ridicule comes, in the bitter end, when he finds thedreamer of dreams:Where did he disappear to? Where did he go? NobodyIn the city knows –But the rumor has passed: RabbiZerah has gone mad.And to the nearby city he was broughtTo the sanctuary he went,He was found with weary eyesCalling: “God, the king”.The end that found R. Zerah, Bialik wished also upon Herzl. But hisprophecy and request were not fulfilled.Here is yet another poem of ridicule against Herzl, which was written byBialik during this time and that he, himself, later buried:In the cities of the sea where the sun setsThere are, blessed be he whose lot is thus in the world:A lofty people, from their smallest to their greatest.