Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SUNSHINE AFTER STORM; A TALE FROM THE TALMUD, by WILLIAM DEARNESS First Line: The rabbi viewed on zion's hill Last Line: His higher destiny to hasten. Subject(s): Clergy; Israel; Jews; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Judaism | ||||||||
THE rabbi viewed on Zion's hill A fox the holy ruins treading, Expanding griefs their bosoms fill, Who suppliant hands to heaven are spreading. With dancing eyes and ringing laugh, Akiba marks the fox descending; Exulting, waves aloft his staff; His ill-timed mirth his friends offending. How canst thou smile? See God's own house, His holy place wild beasts infesting. Such would indignant pity rouse, If grace be still within thee resting. Why weep? quoth he, when near fulfilled: Her doom of trouble we're beholding. Join you with what another skilled In heavenly purpose, is unfolding. Comes next, the later, happier seer Who Salem's glory sees in vision, Of men and dames whose hundredth year Abounds in peace and rich provision. Jeshurun toils through grief to joy. Whom God would choose, He first must chasten, Let Israel faith and hope employ His higher destiny to hasten. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE RABBI'S SON-IN-LAW by SABINE BARING-GOULD A LITTLE HISTORY by DAVID LEHMAN FOR I WILL CONSIDER YOUR DOG MOLLY by DAVID LEHMAN JEWISH GRAVEYARDS, ITALY by PHILIP LEVINE NATIONAL THOUGHTS by YEHUDA AMICHAI SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#3): 2. ANGEL ... by MARVIN BELL A TALE FROM THE TALMUD by WILLIAM DEARNESS SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 114 by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI |
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