Laugh, laugh at all my dreams!

Shaul Tchernichovsky 1875 (Autonomous Republic of Crimea) – 1943 (Jerusalem)



Laugh, laugh at all my dreams!
What I dream shall yet come true!
Laugh at my belief in man,
At my belief in you.

Freedom still my soul demands,
Unbartered for a calf of gold.
For still I do believe in man,
And in his spirit, strong and bold.

And in the future I still believe
Though it be distant, come it will
When nations shall each other bless,
And peace at last the earth shall fill.”
Shaul Tchernichovsky
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Submitted on April 20, 2016

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Scheme XABA XCBC XDXDX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 404
Words 81
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 5

Shaul Tchernichovsky

Shaul Tchernichovsky, was a Russian-born Hebrew poet. He is considered one of the great Hebrew poets, identified with nature poetry, and as a poet greatly influenced by the culture of ancient Greece. more…

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