Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PILLOW AND STONE, by ABRAM SAMUEL ISAACS


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PILLOW AND STONE, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon a stone in olden time
Last Line: The pillow's changed to stone!—
Subject(s): Angels; Jews; Judaism


UPON a stone in olden time
A wanderer sank to rest.
A wondrous vision soothed his heart
How strangely was he blessed!

The arched sky was his coverlet,
The night-wind cradle song;
A ladder mounted heavenward
Which bore an angel throng.

Ah, in these sober days of ours
When we soft close our eyes,
No lofty ladder climbs above,
No angel hosts arise.

And tho our bed be richly draped
And royal fares our own,
For oft we waken unrefreshed—
The pillow's changed to stone!—





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