| Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917. | | | | The Harp of Zion | | By James Willis |
| | | THE HARP of Zion sleepeth | |
| In the shadow of the hill; | |
| The child of promise weepeth | |
| His weary exile still; | |
| The ages of his sorrow | 5 |
| Flow on like Jordan’s stream; | |
| He looketh for the morrow, | |
| But cannot see its beam. | |
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| No beam of heaven discloseth | |
| His father’s land of birth; | 10 |
| His footstep ne’er reposeth | |
| In the nations of the earth; | |
| To them he blindly holdeth | |
| The lamp he cannot see; | |
| While darkness deep enfoldeth | 15 |
| The homes of Galilee! | |
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| Yet not, O God, for ever | |
| Thou’lt judge him in thy wrath; | |
| But bid the darkness sever | |
| Above his destined path; | 20 |
| In thy dread book is written | |
| The period of his doom; | |
| And the vale thy curse has smitten, | |
| As a garden yet shall bloom. | |
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| Even now the destined ages | 25 |
| Are closing o’er the land; | |
| And every sign presages | |
| The morn again at hand; | |
| The darkness swiftly weareth, | |
| Light trembles from the shore; | 30 |
| Each wind of heaven prepareth | |
| The wanderer to restore! | | | | |
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