Empire
under Alexander the Great. The water betokens the Roman or the fourth of
the great monarchies to whose dominion the Jews were subjected. The ox
is a symbol of the Saracens, who subdued Palestine; the butcher that
killed the ox denotes the crusaders by whom the Holy Land was taken from
the Saracens; the Angel of Death the Turkish power to which Palestine is
still subject. The tenth stanza is designed to show that God will take
signal vengeance on the Turks, and restore the Jews to their own land.]

[Footnote 61: There is a concluding verse which Heine has omitted. "Then
came the Holy One of Israel--blessed be he--and slew the Angel of Death,
who," etc.--TRAN.]

[Footnote 62: A suburb of Vienna.]

[Footnote 63: In Lower Austria, on the railroad from Vienna to Eger.]

[Footnote 64: From Grillparzer's _Autobiography_ (1855).]

[Footnote 65: A decoration.]

[Footnote 66: A Critical Edition by Dr. A.C. Kalischer. Permission J.M.
Dent & Co., London, and E.P. Dutton & Co., New York.]

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