| Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917. | | | | Contents of the Bible | | By Peter Heylyn |
| | | IF thou art merry, here are airs; | |
| If melancholy, here are prayers; | |
| If studious, here are those things writ | |
| Which may deserve thy ablest wit; | |
| If hungry, here is food divine; | 5 |
| If thirsty, nectar, heavenly wine. | |
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| Read, then; but, first, thyself prepare | |
| To read with zeal and mark with care; | |
| And when thou read’st what here is writ, | |
| Let thy best practice second it; | 10 |
| So twice each precept read shall be— | |
| First in the book, and next in thee. | | | | |
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