| Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917. | | | | Bar Kochba | | By Emma Lazarus |
| | | WEEP, Israel! your tardy meed outpour | |
| Of grateful homage on his fallen head, | |
| That never coronal of triumph wore, | |
| Untombed, dishonored, and unchapleted. | |
| If Victory makes the hero, raw Success | 5 |
| The stamp of virtue, unremembered | |
| Be then the desperate strife, the storm and stress | |
| Of the last Warrior Jew. But if the man | |
| Who dies for freedom, loving all things less, | |
| Against world-legions, mustering his poor clan; | 10 |
| The weak, the wronged, the miserable, to send | |
| Their death-cry’s protest through the ages’ span— | |
| If such an one be worthy, ye shall lend | |
| Eternal thanks to him, eternal praise, | |
| Nobler the conquered than the conqueror’s end! | 15 | | | |
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