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Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917.

By H. Rosenblatt (Trans. Leah W. Leonard)

The Last Sabbath Light

THE LAST lone Sabbath candle sheds

Its light as pure as Torah;

Three other wicks as black as night

Lie spent in the Menorah.

Without, the darkness gathers thick;

The window panes are frozen—

“Oh, God, let not for my last breath

A pall of gloom be chosen.

“On me a mother’s tears were shed

One evening of each seven;

So gather up my dying flame

And build a star in heaven.”