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

By Ben Zed (Trans. Joseph Chotzner)

The Miser

A MISER once dreamed he had given away

Some bread to a beggar he’d met in the day.

He woke with a start and solemnly swore

That as long as he lived he would slumber no more.