| Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917. | | | | The Temple | | By David Levi |
| | | GO forth, O people, | |
| Sacred to thought, to labour and to sorrow, | |
| And through the centuries pursue thy way. | |
| God of Infinity, He is thy God, | |
| And measureless alike ’mid alien fanes, | 5 |
| Along the sea and lands that thou shalt tread, | |
| Pilgrim of endless years, thy path shall be. | |
| The road is dark, is long and full of pain; | |
| Beside thee still shall go, at God’s behest, | |
| Like to the fiery column, quenchless Hope. | 10 |
| As winnowed grain is flung into the air, | |
| So, ’midst all peoples God shall scatter thee, | |
| And thou shalt bear, as well as thine own griefs, | |
| The griefs and burdens of all other races. | |
| Peoples shall rise, shall shine, shall pass away, | 15 |
| But thou, sacred to life, beside the graves | |
| Of all shall pass immortal, vaster far than time | |
| Or than this earth, no tomb can hold | |
| Thy thoughts immeasurable. | |
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| Sorrowful and grand, | 20 |
| Thou to the rush confused of years to come, | |
| And in the wreck of peoples and of empires, | |
| Thou in all ages, living, speaking witness, | |
| Shalt say to all—“I am.” And to the past | |
| The future thou shalt bind, and race to race, | 25 |
| People to people, and the scattered limbs | |
| Of Adam drawing into thine own self, | |
| In thee, new Adam, one mankind shall grow | |
| Like unto God, and holy on the earth. | |
| Thou the reviving universe shalt fill | 30 |
| With truth and peace. | | | | |
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