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December 27, 1940
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle
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THE DECLINE OF THE .ASMONEANS
By CECILLE ZENIA LEWIS
Greetings
and
Best Wishes
for a
Chanukah . . .
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For wont of warmth with two
SCENE I.
sons blessed,
on
(Palace, Queen Alexandra
Thy warmth sooths like daugh-
the Throne)
ter rest.
QUEEN ALEXANDRA:
Son Hyrcanus is now High Priest,
Hyrcanus, my son, the wisdom Aristobulus set gainst me fist
My brine of sadness in thy wall
gray
Would bid thy rebel husband's
My calm sues to ill a prey.
In balsam soft of rare ripe fruit
call.
My reapers sang with shepherd's Like ashen clouds bid stale
green,
flute
These armed years of sceptral My years cast now a spring-lost
peace,
sheen.
See ASMONEANS—Page 13
For war-hymn glee no war debts
(Aristobulus's Wife Makes
Herself Congenial)
cease;
Though oft for honour hands
SCENE II.
of kings
(After Queen Alexandra's Death)
Inflate the sail with windless Hyrcanus Alone in The Temple
A Joyous Chanukah to All
clings.
SOLIL
II
HYRCANUS:
In peace the flower sees its dew,
This steel holds gore within its
All conquest sows,, a wasteland
sway
lieu
in its sharpened
Lost battles mock the gold of. For freedom
ray.
kings—
royal son and priest I hide .
The sea-lured victim homewards A
Within these walls where truths
sings.
abide
(Enter a Pharisee)
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ThC. flame of God once present
here,
PHARISEE:
My queen, I bid your wiser ear Now sends through me the chill
of fear.
For Janneus's name your after
The blinking stones from dark
tear.
of wall
Diogene within his palm
A Joyous Chanukah to All!
King Janneus held by his calm Like blinking fires outward call
Fear-bound
within
this
holy
The blemished name, restored
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I must beyond a window pace—
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The people's faith in rumor silt To lay these bones on hardened
gold
Like sheep would seek the shep-
Where table niches bread loaves
herd's lilt.
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Who owns another's wisdom lip
The wine of wisdom blindly sip. When life is on the straw of
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QUEEN ALEXANDRA:
Decision lies on laboured breath.
Parties — Banquets
King Janneus's dark of death
Twixt wind of word and hazy Tomorrow's light within this dark
Wedding Receptions
May fill a future from this
breath
Dancing and Entertainment
spark.
Sees in Diogene the clue
The sword the hated deed must For crown sheen I will no gore,
Nightly in Our Famous
But restless flame my brother's
sue.
Fiesta Bar
core,
(Enter Istobulus's Wife)
With terror filled this night of
(Exit Pharisee)
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QUEEN ALEXANDRA:
Its
imprint
may
on
future
years.
My foster child of riper fruit,
My languour drinks the sweet of SAME SCENE—Next Morning
flute.
ARISTOBULUS: II
My withered hand now in State Hyrcanus upon this seal,
dread
Mine is the throne and kingdom
A Joyous Chanukah to All!
Feels cold for those soon, too
weal,
soon dead.
A watered flame is ashen left,
An eye on flames is flame bereft.
Bess and Saul Rosenman
Weak towers call for thieves of
night,
of
A gurded treasure lasts as might.
(Exit Both)
(Hyrcanus, in the Tent of Aretas,
Conspired Against Aristobulus,
the Arabian)
"Flower Arrangements with that
ARETAS:
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Personal Touch"
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The cities King Janneus won
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My pleasure in this tented hall.
HYRCANUS II:
My friend, this gift for civil
peace
Is serpent fruit of ear release.
Twixt watered thought and arid
need,
A land for peace now laid to
Chanukah Greetings!
seed.
No maiden soft will still my guilt
Nor bland the thought in gnawing
hilt.
Tomorrow on the battle field
Aristobulus in war must yield.
ARETAS:
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Still hours seek the wilder tunes.
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MESSENGER:
Aristobulus fiercely fought—
No storm such fury ever wrought
The army all now panic spread—
Chanukah Greetings!
To the inner temple walls he fled.
(Exit Messenger and Aretas.)
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With mirage weak there dreamt
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When raving cleft times deeply
Chanukah Greetings!
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(Exit)
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Within my vein live ire teems.
The kingdom reins now stream-
ers loose—
A loosened brick house ruin woos.
A PRIEST:
For God and Land we stand the
siege.
For land and king we faithful
liege.
Staunch faith in faithless malice
breeds
Our light but wrought for world
– seeds.
The heathens beat the Hebrew
time—
The heathen and Hebrew envy
rhyme.
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Season's Greetings ..
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CHANUKAH TO THE ENTIRE
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