| Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917. | | | | David Kaufmann | | By George Alexander Kohut |
| | | AMID the murm’ring din and seething strife | |
| Of all the world’s contending victories, | |
| Thou, modest scholar, writing histories | |
| Hast caused Judæa’s past to pulse with life; | |
| Hast conjured, with the magic of thy touch, | 5 |
| Whose quiver had the thrill of the sublime, | |
| The soul from its clay; and hast rescued time | |
| From its only foe: oblivion’s clutch, | |
| Which holds enthralled beneath its aged crust | |
| The teeming mysteries of throbbing thought | 10 |
| So many tried to find, yet few have sought | |
| To read aright, and read aright, to trust. | |
| Great Poet-Thinker, Critic of the Past, | |
| Thine is a memory to live, to last! | | | | |
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