| Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917. | | | | Sir Moses Montefiore | | By E. Yancey Cohen |
| | | SWEET blue-eyed Charity, devout and calm, | |
| Hath been the dear companion of his days, | |
| How hath he hearken’d to her prayerful lays, | |
| Sad-voic’d and plaintive as an angel’s psalm! | |
| She pointed and he hasten’d where the palm | 5 |
| Sighs faintly in the pitiless Syrian rays, | |
| Where men sank gasping on the lone highways | |
| And cried aloud for succor and for balm. | |
| The sick he heal’d, the fallen rais’d he up; | |
| Light track’d his footsteps through the darksome land— | 10 |
| And sav’d, men wept and bless’d him in their tears. | |
| Come, friends, lift we on high the loving cup | |
| And hail with greetings from our distant strand | |
| This hero crested with his hundred years! | | | | |
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