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

By Ben Joseph Palquera (Trans. Harry W. Ettelson)

All Things To All Men

ADAPT thyself to time and circumstance

So wilt thou be untroubled every way.

Amongst the wise make wise thy countenance

And with the fool the role of dullard play;

Roar, if upon a lion thou shouldst chance;

But if an ass thou meetest simply bray.