Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, 5666-NEW YEAR-1905, by JACOB KLEIN


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5666-NEW YEAR-1905, by                    
First Line: From old to new, with broadening sweep
Last Line: Held by the hand of god.
Subject(s): Holidays; Jews; New Year; Rosh Hashanah; Judaism


FROM old to new, with broadening sweep,
The stream of life moves on;
And still its changing currents keep
A changeless undertone.

In prophet word and martyr faith,
Visions of saint and seer,
The poet's song, the hero's death—
That undertone we hear.

A sense we have of things unseen,
Transcending thing of time;
We catch earth's broken chords between
The everlasting chime.

And light breaks through the rifted haze
In shining vistas broad;
We stand amid the eternal ways,
Held by the hand of God.





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