<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Passover</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Tell me: how is this night different </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">From all other nights?</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">How, tell me, is this Passover</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Different from other Passovers?</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Light the lamp, open the door wide</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">So the pilgrim can come in,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Gentile or Jew;</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Under the rags perhaps the prophet is concealed.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Let him enter and sit down with us;</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Let him listen, drink, sing and celebrate Passover;</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Let him consume the bread of affliction,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">The Paschal Lamb, sweet mortar and bitter herbs.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">This is the night of differences</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">In which you lean your elbow on the table,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Since the forbidden becomes prescribed,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Evil is translated into good.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div>
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<td valign="top" style="width: 444.0px" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">We will spend the night recounting</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Far-off events full of wonder,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">And because of all the wine</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">The mountains will skip like rams.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Tonight they exchange questions:</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">The wise, the godless, the simple-minded and the child.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">And time reverses its course,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Today flowing back into yesterday, </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Like a river enclosed at its mouth.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Each of us has been a slave in Egypt,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Soaked straw and clay with sweat,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">And crossed the sea dry-footed.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">You too, stranger.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">This year in fear and shame,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Next year in virtue and in justice.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div>
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