I "WOULD a man 'scape the rod?" Rabbi Ben Karshook saith, "See that he turn to God The day before his death." "Ay, could a man inquire When it shall come!" I say. The Rabbi's eye shoots fire -- "Then let him turn to-day!" II Quoth a young Sadducee: "Reader of many rolls, Is it so certain we Have, as they tell us, souls?" "Son, there is no reply!" The Rabbi bit his beard: "Certain, a soul have I -- We may have none," he sneered. Thus Karshook, the Hiram's-Hammer The Right-hand Temple-column, Taught babes in grace their grammar. And struck the simple, solemn. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BLIND BOY by COLLEY CIBBER NO MASTER by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES THE WHITE SHIP by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI AVE ATQUE VALE; IN MEMORY OF CHARLES BAUDELAIRE by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE PASSED BY by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS |