Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A TABERNACLE THOUGHT, by ISRAEL ZANGWILL


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A TABERNACLE THOUGHT, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lovely grapes and apples
Last Line: Of the coming years.
Subject(s): Babies; Jews; Infants; Judaism


LOVELY grapes and apples,
And such pretty flowers,
Blooming in the Succah
That in the backyard towers.

Green leaves for the ceiling
Sift the sun and shade
To a pretty pattern
As in forest glade.

Cool retreat and dainty
For a little child,
Toddling in, by prospect
Of its joys beguiled.

Round he casts his blue eyes,
Stretches hand in haste;
Darling baby, all this
Just is to his taste.

But soon his eyes brim over
As with sudden tears,
Ah, he learns the lesson
Of the coming years.





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