| Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917. | | | | Our Password | | By Isidore G. Ascher |
| | | NO hate can stifle our religion’s birth, | |
| This gift eternal, like the stars that shine | |
| Point heavenwards, yet light each clod of earth, | |
| Our footsteps press, when care and sorrow line | |
| The groping paths of life; our souls shall knead | 5 |
| The visions of the past, the day’s desire, | |
| And all that beautifies our simple creed | |
| In one eternal, and ethereal fire! | |
| The flame that vivifies the Jewish race, | |
| That consecrates the joys of common life, | 10 |
| Which time’s corrosive touch can ne’er efface, | |
| The boon in toil, the sweetness in the strife, | |
| The truth that animates like Heaven’s sun, | |
| Our prayer in life and death that God is One. | | | | |
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