Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MORITZ STEINSCHNEIDER, by GEORGE ALEXANDER KOHUT


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MORITZ STEINSCHNEIDER, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If I had known, dear master, when of late
Last Line: And lost its matchless cunning only now.
Subject(s): Honor; Jews; Memory; Scholarship & Scholars; Judaism


IF I had known, dear Master, when of late
I held thy hand within my own to say
The thousand things I'd thought of on the way,
But sheer forgot for very awe to state;—
If I had known the summons was so near
And that thy presence never more would grace
The little room that was the trysting place

Of every scholar, booklover and seer
That came from North, from South, from East, and West
To call himself thy pupil and be blest—
I fain would have besought thee to allow
My unclean lips to kiss the wizard hand
That made of learning such a wonderland,
And lost its matchless cunning only now.





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