| Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917. | | | | Israel and His Book | | By Felix N. Gerson |
| | | AN AGE-WORN wanderer, pale with thought and tears, | |
| With heart heroic and prophetic look, | |
| Comes clasping to his breast the Sacred Book— | |
| The amulet of Israel through the years! | |
| “Behold!” he says, “through ages dark with fears, | 5 |
| Through travail and through miseries that shook | |
| The soul of Judah, this he ne’er forsook. | |
| It is his Book!—Therein his God appears!” | |
| His Book! more glorious with supernal light | |
| Than all the beacons reared by mortal hands | 10 |
| Since time first lisped its anguish in the night. | |
| His Book! That gave a God to all the lands; | |
| Whose pages shall through us again reveal | |
| The wondrous promise grief could not conceal! | | | | |
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