The Rabbis Song

 "The House Surgeon"--Actions and Reactions 2 Samuel XIV. 14.
If Thought can reach to Heaven,
 On Heaven let it dwell,
For fear the Thought be given
 Like power to reach to Hell.
For fear the desolation
 And darkness of thy mind
Perplex an habitation 
 Which thou hast left behind.

Let nothing linger after--
 No whimpering gost remain,
In wall, or beam, or rafter,
 Of any hate or pain.
Cleans and call home thy spirit,
 Deny her leave to cast,
On aught thy heirs inherit,
 The shadow of her past.

For think, in all thy sadness,
 What road our griefs may take;
Whose brain reflect our madness,
 Or whom our terrors shake:
For think, lest any languish
 By cause of thy distress--
The arrows of our anguish
 Fly farther than we guess.

Our lives, our tears, as water,
 Are spilled upon the ground;
God giveth no man quarter,
 Yet God a means hath found,
Though Faith and Hope have vanished,
 And even Love grows dim--
A means whereby His banished
 Be not expelled from Him!

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