| Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917. | | | | The Ha’ Bible | | By Robert Nicoll |
| | | AH, I could worship thee! | |
| Thou art a gift a God of love might give; | |
| For love and hope and joy | |
| In thy Almighty-written pages live;— | |
| The slave who reads shall never crouch again; | 5 |
| For, mind-inspired by thee, he bursts his feeble chain! | |
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| God! unto thee I kneel, | |
| And thank thee! Thou unto my native land— | |
| Yea, to the outspread earth— | |
| Hast stretched in love thy everlasting hand, | 10 |
| And thou hast given earth, and sea, and air— | |
| Yea, all that heart can ask of good and pure and fair! | |
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| And, Father, thou hast spread | |
| Before men’s eyes this charter of the free, | |
| That all thy book might read, | 15 |
| And justice, love, and truth, and liberty. | |
| The gift was unto men,—the giver, God! | |
| Thou slave! it stamps thee man,—go spurn thy weary load! | |
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| Thou doubly precious book! | |
| Unto thy light what does not Scotland owe:— | 20 |
| Thou teachest age to die, | |
| And youth in truth unsullied up to grow! | |
| In lowly homes a comforter art thou,— | |
| A sunbeam sent from God,—an everlasting bow! | | | | |
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