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Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917.

By Punch

“Is life worth living?”

IS life worth living? To the querulous cry

Let this long record, lately closed, reply!

A century of service to mankind!

Pessimist cold and cynic blandly blind,

’Tis fitter comment on that query stale

Than sneers that pall and arguments that fail.

Long in the land his days, whose heart and hand

All high and human causes could command;

Long in the land his memory will abide

His country’s treasure and his people’s pride.