| Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917. | | | | In That Day | | By A. C. Benson |
| | | ABSALOM! Absalom! | |
| Put back thy fragrant hair! | |
| Loud is the city’s hum. | |
| Why dost thy linger there | |
| To set soft hearts on fire? | 5 |
| That thou may’st reign and be | |
| What mainly men desire | |
| What best it liketh thee? | |
| Hark to the City’s hum, | |
| Absalom, Absalom! | 10 |
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| Absalom, Absalom! | |
| Canst thou not clearer see | |
| The thronging forms that came | |
| Beneath the branching tree? | |
| The green ways of the wood, | 15 |
| And dropping from the dart | |
| The small dull pool of blood | |
| That drains the traitorous heart? | |
| See the dim forms that come, | |
| Absalom, Absalom. | 20 | | | |
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