| Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917. | | | | 5666—New Year—1905 | | By Jacob Klein |
| | | FROM old to new, with broadening sweep, | |
| The stream of life moves on; | |
| And still its changing currents keep | |
| A changeless undertone. | |
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| In prophet word and martyr faith, | 5 |
| Visions of saint and seer, | |
| The poet’s song, the hero’s death— | |
| That undertone we hear. | |
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| A sense we have of things unseen, | |
| Transcending thing of time; | 10 |
| We catch earth’s broken chords between | |
| The everlasting chime. | |
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| And light breaks through the rifted haze | |
| In shining vistas broad; | |
| We stand amid the eternal ways, | 15 |
| Held by the hand of God. | | | | |
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