| Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917. | | | | “Bow of Beauty” | | By Henry Vaughan |
| | | BOW of beauty, arching o’er us, tinted with unearthly dyes, | |
| Stealing silently before us on the cloud of stormy skies; | |
| In the beaming radiance seeming, like an angel-path from heaven; | |
| Or a vision to our dreaming, of some fairy fabric given. | |
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| Thou art Mercy’s emblem, brightly smiling through an angry frown; | 5 |
| Fairer for the gloom, as nightly glow the gems in Ether’s crown. | |
| And when wrath is darkest glooming on the countenance divine, | |
| Love’s and Mercy’s light assuming, like the rainbow it doth shine. | | | | |
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