Unknown, 'Jewish Partisan Song'

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Jewish Partisan Song

"From lands of palm and lands bedecked with snow
We came with all our people's pain and woe,
Where falls our martyr's blood into the earth,
Our courage and our hope shall have rebirth.
Tomorrow's dawn will robe our world in light,
Our yesterday will vanish with the night.
But if our freedom should arrive too late,
The world should know the meaning of our fate.
My muse is not a poet's playful dream,
I write in blood and not in ink my theme,
We sang it as our world went up in flame,
We sang it fighting to defend our name."

Author unknown