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...WHAT MY LOVER SAID by HOMER GREENE THE HOCK-CART, OR HARVEST HOME by ROBERT HERRICK SONNET: WRITTEN ON THE DAY THAT MR. LEIGH HUNT LEFT PRISON by JOHN KEATS THE SOLITARY WOODSMAN by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 3. ISAAC BROWN by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM A TOMB BY THE SEA by ASCLEPIADES OF SAMOS ENVOI: DEATH (2) by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) |