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Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917.

By Isaac Lazarowich

Myer Davis

FAREWELL! the word is idle, not in vain

He lived his righteous life, he must farewell

Who lived for others’ good. What man may tell

The rich fruits of his toil, in sun and rain?

What sheaves were garnered from the sacred grain

Sown by his gracious lips, ere on their spell

The lasting silence lingering slowly fell

Down, like a wall between us? Yet again,

Good night! good-bye! There is a time to weep

For us, till the morn break and the shadows fly,

Which long stretched out across the evening creep

Hour after hour until the cock’s first cry;

O! holy herald of the day-springs leap

Out of the dying dark, good night, good-bye.