| Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917. | | | | “Is life worth living?” | | By Punch |
| | | 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 | 5 |
| 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. | 10 | | | |
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