| Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917. | | | | Legendary Lights | | By Alter Abelson |
| | | O, THE LEGENDARY light, | |
| Gleaming goldenly in night | |
| Like the stars above, | |
| Beautiful, like lights in dream, | |
| Eight, the taper-flames that stream | 5 |
| All one glory and one love. | |
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| In our Temple, magical— | |
| Memories, now tragical— | |
| Holy hero-hearts aflame | |
| With a glory more than fame; | 10 |
| There where a shrine is every sod, | |
| Every grave, God’s golden ore, | |
| With a pæan whose rhyme to God, | |
| Lit these lamps of yore. | |
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| Lights, you are a living dream, | 15 |
| Faith and bravery you beam, | |
| Youth and dawn and May. | |
| Would your beam were more than dream, | |
| Would the light and love you stream, | |
| Stirred us, spurred us, aye! | 20 |
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| Fabled memories of flame, | |
| Till the beast in man we tame, | |
| Tyrants bow to truth, amain, | |
| Brands and bullets yield to brain, | |
| Guns to God, and shells to soul, | 25 |
| Hounds to heart resign the rôle, | |
| Pillared lights of liberty, | |
| In your fairy flames, we’ll see | |
| Faith’s and freedom’s Phœnix-might, | |
| The Omnipotence of Right. | 30 | | | |
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