profaned
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Gather the silver vessels, Dismantle the rich curtains of the doors, Bring the Perpetual Lamp; all these shall burn, For Israel's light is darkened, Israel's Law Profaned by strangers.
From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 Jewish poems: Translations by Lazarus, Emma
Great acts like these, by vulgar tongue Profaned, should not be said, but sung.
From Poetical Works by Churchill, Charles
Upon this day, the five and twentieth day Of the month Caslan, was the Temple here Profaned by strangers,—by Antiochus And thee, his instrument.
From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Jerusalem did weep to see herself Profaned: The alarmed band of Levi's race Did elevate to heaven appalling cries.
From Athaliah A Tragedy, Intended For Reading Only, Translated Into English Blank Verse, From Racine (A. Gombert's Edition, 1825) by Donkersley, J.
That death-stain on the vernal sward Hallowed to freedom all the shore; In fragments fell the yoke abhorred— The footstep of a foreign lord Profaned the soil no more.
From Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition by Stoddard, Richard Henry
