| Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917. | | | | Chanukah Lights | | By Harold Debrest |
| | | YOU see these slender tapers standing there | |
| Like Lilliputians wrestling with the air, | |
| In yellow garb, that strange suggestive hue | |
| Of tragic reminiscence to the Jew? | |
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| These tiny lights have struggled thus for years; | 5 |
| Though often bathed in blood and drenched in tears, | |
| They flicker still—It seems no mortal might | |
| Can crush God’s great miracle of light. | |
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| This little group of torches came to show | |
| The hiding place of Heaven here below; | 10 |
| By lighting every corner of the earth, | |
| They see and preach life’s meaning and its worth. | |
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| Though weak and few they caused the very heart | |
| Of all humanity to stir, and gave the start | |
| To God’s most sacred truths; Indeed proclaim | 15 |
| His Fatherhood, His purpose and His name. | |
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| Yea, Israel, it is Thy fate to fight | |
| In darkened corners and to shed the light | |
| Till all the world at last has learned to see | |
| Its way to God and immortality. | 20 | | | |
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