Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LEOPOLD ZUNZ, by J. F.


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LEOPOLD ZUNZ, by                    
First Line: To thee o'er whose fresh-closed tomb
Last Line: Nor soon nor yet will bid a last farewell.
Subject(s): Death; Honor; Jews; Memory; Dead, The; Judaism


To thee o'er whose fresh-closed tomb
The early violets and snowdrops bloom,
With these, for thee, I interweave
This votive wreath of laurel leaf.

Thine was a spirit of an earlier age,
When nobler triumphs graced the stage,
Whereon our country's heroes moved,
Who gloriously their guerdon proved.

And thine it was to flash a clearer light
O'er the tragedy of an age-long night,
And trace, in living words, the story
Of Israel's virile thought and former glory.

Wakening the echoes of a far-off time,
In strains scarce less sublime,
Than those the halls of Zion rang,
When, o'er the land her minstrels sang.

Leaving to Israel a lingering ray,
A promised dawn of a brighter day,
Long o'er thy mem'ry a nation's love will dwell,
Nor soon nor yet will bid a last farewell.





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