| Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917. | | | | Leopold Zunz | | By J. F. |
| | | TO thee o’er whose fresh-closed tomb | |
| The early violets and snowdrops bloom, | |
| With these, for thee, I interweave | |
| This votive wreath of laurel leaf. | |
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| Thine was a spirit of an earlier age, | 5 |
| When nobler triumphs graced the stage, | |
| Whereon our country’s heroes moved, | |
| Who gloriously their guerdon proved. | |
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| And thine it was to flash a clearer light | |
| O’er the tragedy of an age-long night, | 10 |
| And trace, in living words, the story | |
| Of Israel’s virile thought and former glory. | |
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| Wakening the echoes of a far-off time, | |
| In strains scarce less sublime, | |
| Than those the halls of Zion rang, | 15 |
| When, o’er the land her minstrels sang. | |
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| Leaving to Israel a lingering ray, | |
| A promised dawn of a brighter day, | |
| Long o’er thy mem’ry a nation’s love will dwell, | |
| Nor soon nor yet will bid a last farewell. | 20 | | | |
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