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Chastened by grief Ben Horad holier grew	A
And uncomplaining toiled from day to day	B
His sad sweet smile his loving flock well knew	A
His kindly voice their sorrows charmed away	B
Yet though he bowed before his Master's will	C
His heart was sad for he was human still	C
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By night or day wherever he might stray	B
Through bustling city streets or lonely lane	D
One form he ever saw a maiden gay	B
One voice he heard a soft melodious strain	D
And oh the loneliness to see and hear	E
Yet lack the tender touch of one so dear	F
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Long as he read into the silent night	G
The winking stars soft peeping in his room	H
While at his hand the dreamy lambent light	G
Just lit his book and left all else in gloom	H
His study walls evanished and in mist	I
He saw the maid whose dead lips once he kissed	I
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Yet dead no more but his dear spirit wife	J
And still in heaven she sang the same glad strain	D
She would have sung on earth had not her life	J
Been given to him that he might live again	K
And as she sang he wept Ah woe is me	L
Who robbed her of her sweet futurity	I
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There came a day when on the Rabbi's ears	M
Fell the low moans of one in mortal pain	D
Slowly they died as though dissolved in tears	N
While a weak infant's wail took up the strain	D
Sadly Ben Horad smiled and raised his head	I
She has been spared that agony he said	I
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Then all his sorrow died but not for long	O
For soon again the spirit voice he heard	I
Crooning all day a little cradle song	O
With happiness and love in every word	I
And as she sang he wept Ah woe is me	L
Who robbed her of her sweet maternity	L
	-
Once more he heard her moans and once again	K
Heard the young mother crooning o'er her child	I
And then came no more sorrow in the strain	D
Which had there been might him have reconciled	I
But as she sang he wept Ah woe is me	L
Who robbed her of her sweet maturity	L
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And still he read the Talmud day and night	I
And still the years slipped by on noiseless wing	P
Then one day as he studied lo the sprite	I
Till then long silent recommenced to sing	P
He sighed To day she feasts her eldest boy	Q
And I have robbed my darling of this joy	Q
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Again was silence and again there fell	R
Upon the Rabbi's ears the sweet refrain	D
With the glad tumult of a marriage bell	R
Now rising like a bird now low again	K
Her daughter weds he said Ah woe is me	L
Who robbed her of her sweet maternity	L
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Year after year he lived and children died	I
Of age whom he had dandled until he	L
Worn with his grief for death's oblivion sighed	I
But still he heard the same sweet melody	L
And could not die until the singing ceased	I
For by her life had his life been increased	I
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Long flashed the lamp upon the sacred page	S
Long peeped the star worlds through the orioled pane	D
Long nightly sat the white haired saintly sage	S
And listened till at last the happy strain	D
Died into discord God be thanked he said	I
Next day they found him smiling now but dead	I

Arthur Weir

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