| Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917. | | | | “She gladly shared his cup of death” | | By Bernard Gruenstein |
| | | SHE gladly shared his cup of death. She sought | |
| And chose his stainless shroud of icy sea, | |
| Her heart was his, to sink with him her plea, | |
| When strained to seek the shore. Her only thought, | |
| To hold his hand and help him die. She caught | 5 |
| His courage, and felt the rhapsody | |
| Of joining him in death’s wild jubilee | |
| Beneath the roar of sea with soul unwrought. | |
| She was the perfect wife that loved her mate, | |
| Content to crown her life with mutual fate. | 10 |
| She clung to him, her soul of soul, her light; | |
| Without him all were black as starless night. | |
| To-day she sleeps with him in Neptune’s grave, | |
| Because she loved him only, and was brave. | | | | |
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