| Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917. | | | | Lines on Carmen Sylva | | By Emma Lazarus |
| | | TREMBLING old men are stamm’ring | |
| Scarce can their anguish tell— | |
| Whisp’ring the ancient Hebrew, | |
| The “Hear, O Israel!” | |
| Some little Jew is falling, | 5 |
| Clubbed in his narrow pale— | |
| The Queen is singing sweetly | |
| Songs of the Nightingale. | |
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| Watchmen are growing fretful, | |
| Why should they longer wait? | 10 |
| Hurry the homeless wanderers | |
| Through the next dark suffering-gate. | |
| What though anchors are lifted, | |
| What though poor exiles flee— | |
| Carmen Sylva is warbling | 15 |
| An Ode to Humanity. | | | | |
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