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

By Rudyard Kipling

The Rabbi’s Song

IF thought ever reach to Heaven,

On Heaven let it dwell.

For fear that Thought be given

Like Power to reach to Hell;

For fear that Desolation

And darkness on thy mind

Perplex the habitation

Which thou hast left behind.

Our lives, our tears as water

Are poured upon the ground;

God giveth no man quarter,

Yet God a means hath found,

Tho’ faith and hope have vanished

And even love grows dim,

A means whereby his banished

Be not expelled from Him.