| Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917. | | | | “Whither Shall I Go?” | | By Eliza Scudder |
| | | I CANNOT find thee! still on restless pinion | |
| My spirit beats the void where thou dost dwell; | |
| I wander lost through all thy vast dominion, | |
| And shrink beneath thy light ineffable. | |
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| I cannot know thee! even when most adoring | 5 |
| Before thy shrine I bend in lowliest prayer; | |
| Beyond these bounds of thought, my thought upsoaring, | |
| From further quest comes back; thou art not there. | |
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| Yet high above the limits of my seeing | |
| And folded far within the inmost heart, | 10 |
| And deep below the deeps of conscience being, | |
| Thy splendor shineth; there, O God, thou art. | |
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| I cannot lose thee; still in thee abiding | |
| The end is clear, How wide so’er I roam; | |
| The law that holds the worlds my steps is guiding, | 15 |
| And I must rest at last in thee, my home. | | | | |
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