Dead nations never rise again? Hitler and Longfellow certainly felt so about Zion (Emma Lazarus disagreed, as did Henry Dawson regarding the 'certain' deaths of his Jewish SBEs)

When Emma Lazarus read Longfellow's otherwise moving poem about the old Jewish cemetery in Newport, Rhone Island, she hated the concluding line that - with Social Darwinistic finality - flatly stated that dead nations (ie Zion) never rise again.