| Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917. | | | | Lament for Jerusalem | | By Marion and Celia Moss |
| | | JERUSALEM! on thy ruin’d walls | |
| The sun yet sheds its glittering rays, | |
| And shines amid thy lonely halls | |
| As once it shone in happier days: | |
| And Judea’s clime is still as fair, | 5 |
| Though Judah’s sons are outcasts there. | |
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| How long shall pagan foot profane | |
| Jehovah’s hallowed shrine; | |
| And memories alone remain | |
| Of all that once was thine? | 10 |
| How long shall we, thy children, roam | |
| As exiles from our native home? | |
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| To weep o’er Salem’s blighted fame, | |
| To gaze upon her strand, | |
| Is all the heritage we claim | 15 |
| Within our fatherland; | |
| To mourn o’er our free parents’ graves | |
| That we, their children, are but slaves. | |
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| When will that glorious hour come? | |
| When shall we once more see | 20 |
| Thy temple rear its stately dome, | |
| Thy children with the free? | |
| And thou, our fair, ill-fated land; | |
| Amongst the nations take thy stand? | | | | |
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