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We have no king or Queen; of every tribe
of their fathers, too many princes among them.
The House of David faded into the windmills of the flowered mountain, and
Esther, resting in Hamadan, left us Darius to rebuild,
and what have we done?
Evil tongues wag, unlike in the time of the brothers Hammer,
priests in armor, who lit the …
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