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

By Isidore G. Ascher

The Spirit of the Sabbath

  • “Come my beloved to meet the bride, the presence of the Sabbath let us receive.”—JEWISH PRAYER BOOK.


    • ON evening’s bosom snowy cloudlets weave,

    Light fantasies the veil of night shall hide.

    The wraiths of spectral cares that softly glide

    In silentness, and plaintive sighs that heave

    From those who have no strength to loudly grieve,

    Are hushed; and in an ecstasy of pride,

    The soul of rest and stillness glorified.

    Welcome the beauty of the Sabbath Eve!

    Peace folds the soul, as petals fold a flower,

    Hushed in sweet slumbers with night’s darkened spell,

    The bride has entered in her lovely bower,

    Where love entrenched in radiance doth dwell,

    And decked in sweetness, purity and truth,

    We greet her in her everlasting youth.


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