| Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917. | | | | The Jews’ Cemetery on the Lido | | By John Addington Symonds |
| | | A TRACT of land swept by the salt seafoam, | |
| Fringed with acacia flowers and billowy deep, | |
| In meadow-grasses, where tall poppies sleep, | |
| And bees athirst for wilding honey roam, | |
| How many a bleeding heart hath found its home, | 5 |
| Under these hillocks which the seamews sweep! | |
| Here knelt an outcast race to curse and weep, | |
| Age after age, ’neath heaven’s unanswering dome. | |
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| Sad is the place and solemn. Grave by grave, | |
| Lost in the dunes, with rank weeds overgrown, | 10 |
| Pines in abandonment; as though unknown, | |
| Uncared for, lay the dead, whose records pave | |
| This path neglected; each forgotten stone | |
| Wept by no mourner but the moaning wave. | | | | |
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