| Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917. | | | | A Tabernacle Thought | | By Israel Zangwill |
| | | LOVELY grapes and apples, | |
| And such pretty flowers, | |
| Blooming in the Succah | |
| That in the backyard towers. | |
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| Green leaves for the ceiling | 5 |
| Sift the sun and shade | |
| To a pretty pattern | |
| As in forest glade. | |
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| Cool retreat and dainty | |
| For a little child, | 10 |
| Toddling in, by prospect | |
| Of its joys beguiled. | |
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| Round he casts his blue eyes, | |
| Stretches hand in haste; | |
| Darling baby, all this | 15 |
| Just is to his taste. | |
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| But soon his eyes brim over | |
| As with sudden tears, | |
| Ah, he learns the lesson | |
| Of the coming years. | 20 | | | |
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