| Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917. | | | | The Rabbi’s Song | | By Rudyard Kipling |
| | | IF thought ever reach to Heaven, | |
| On Heaven let it dwell. | |
| For fear that Thought be given | |
| Like Power to reach to Hell; | |
| For fear that Desolation | 5 |
| And darkness on thy mind | |
| Perplex the habitation | |
| Which thou hast left behind. | |
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| Our lives, our tears as water | |
| Are poured upon the ground; | 10 |
| God giveth no man quarter, | |
| Yet God a means hath found, | |
| Tho’ faith and hope have vanished | |
| And even love grows dim, | |
| A means whereby his banished | 15 |
| Be not expelled from Him. | | | | |
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