@3How can we sing King Alpha song In a strange land@1 We sat & cried along Babylon rivers remembering Zion. We hung up our harps on Babylon trees when our captors asked us for songs when they mocked us calling for a happy tune: "Sing us one of those Zion songs!" If I forgot you Jerusalem my right hand would wither my tongue would stick to the roof of my mouth if I didn't remember you if I couldn't start up a tune with: "Jerusalem . . ." YaHVeH recall the Edomites Jerusalem's day when they said: "Strip her Strip her bottom bare!" Now thief Babylon (a song for you): "Happy He'll be to pay you the reward you've rewarded us Happy He'll be to snatch your babies and smash them against a rock!" Used with the permission of Copper Canyon Press, P.O. Box 271, Port Townsend, WA 98368-0271, www.cc.press.org | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO A PRIZE BIRD by MARIANNE MOORE THEY SAY - . by JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER THE PROBLEM by RALPH WALDO EMERSON LOVE AT SEA by THEOPHILE GAUTIER A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 47. THE CARPENTER'S SON by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN |