| Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917. | | | | To Walter Lionel de Rothschild on His Bar-Mitzvah | | By Louis B. Abrahams |
| | | THINE is the heritage of ancient birth, | |
| Age upon age hath dawned since first thy race | |
| Was cradled in the empurpled East: the place | |
| Whence seer and king have sprung—the great of earth. | |
| And thine the heritage of higher worth; | 5 |
| The large-souled Charity, whose pitying grace | |
| Hath left nor land nor sea without its trace, | |
| And raised a plenteous harvest ’midst the dearth, | |
| But thine a greater heritage than these; | |
| The heaven-born Faith, thy sires have taught the world; | 10 |
| Which lifts thine eyes to God without surcease, | |
| And bid thee guard His banner, wide unfurled. | |
| That deathless Faith make thou thy steadfast star, | |
| Thy heart shall know a peace no pain can mar. | | | | |
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