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| WHEN Solomon, great King of Israel, | |
| Builded the Temple of old, | |
| He fashioned the “Ark of the Cov’nant” | |
| Within and without of gold. | |
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| He moulded two Cherubim splendid | 5 |
| (At God, the Eternal’s command) | |
| Whose pinions the Holy of Holies | |
| Like a luminous symbol spanned. | |
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| The wings of these wonderful angels | |
| He welded together where | 10 |
| The Lord from His high seat of Mercy | |
| Re-echoed the voice divine. | |
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| And thus when the people lay prostrate | |
| Before the shimmering shrine, | |
| From betwixt the horns of the Altar | 15 |
| Re-echoed the voice divine. | |
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| We, also, dear children of Israel, | |
| Are bending before the Ark, | |
| And our spirits’ gold wings are shining | |
| Bright in the mystical dark. | 20 |
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| As they touch, we whisper devoutly | |
| The great ineffable name, | |
| And His voice, like music celestial, | |
| Chimes from the Ner Tamid’s 1 flame. | |
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| The words we can clearly distinguish— | 25 |
| Their meaning is solemn and grand; | |
| “O, Children of Israel, remember! | |
| Know ye before Whom you stand!” | |
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