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

By George Alexander Kohut

Leo N. Levi

LET no lament break forth but rather sing

Hosannas to the Everlasting King;

Let Hallelujahs everywhere resound

And animate the newly hallowed ground

Where lovingly a garland we may place

To symbolize the homage of his race.

No wringing hands, nor shrill-voiced grief shall lift

Our hero from his consecrated crypt;—

If ye would truly honor him, who bore

The ensign of the fathers to the fore,

Then follow on, and raise the battle-flag,

And hasten on each footstep that would lag.

Unfold forsooth the ancient standard, and

Obey our leader’s clarion-toned command.