DREYFUS: (*Listens*) I hear again the r...

DREYFUS: (Listens) I hear again the roar of the sea, as yesterday as every day for almost five years. So will hear it tomorrow. The days pass, change into years. My life will end here, in this living grave; my name will be forgotten; this great injustice will no longer interest people. But the ocean will continue to lash this rock. Well has Koheleth, our great Hebrew poet sung, “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.” (Footsteps off-stage and voices) Ha, who comes here in the dead of night? Surley, no friend. (Hysterical) I know, they come to murder me, lest my innocence be proclaimed. They had not expected this miserable Jew to survive their torment so long. They had forgotten the power of the Eternal Jew, to endure endless persecution, and yet to survive. Come then, life or death, I fear you not.

Citation: Jacob Gordin, Captain Dreyfus, Public Domain, 1898 pp. 14-15.