Tell me, you deep, you large Sea, you flow so far around your islands here and there,--know you not somewhere in some corner, where the godly man may find his consolation and a safe place of rest? Know you not the name of that city? Tell the good word!--The Ocean flows onward and murmurs: "No! I have not seen such a place." * * * * * You beautiful Moon, in your glory! You look everywhere when all is still at night and covered with a black shroud. You pass over the whole world ever through the nights,--know you not somewhere a tent, where the good have no sorrow?--You may see the Moon disappear behind a cloud, and sigh and answer: "No, no!" * * * * * Tell me, then, my Soul, and Love and Hope also,--wherever the Sun passes is there not to be found a quiet life, where no evil goes with it, where one may live but in joy, where one may be free of sins and sorrows, of troubles and of sufferings?--They all give the one answer: "They live quietly up there in heaven!" Vun Sünd' un' Sorgen is' män frei, Vun Zores un' vun Lēiden? See geben Alle ēin Antwort: "Ruhig lebt män in Himmel dort!" B. W. EHRENKRANZ-ZBARZER. V. DIWREE CHOCHMO ('Saeefer Musser Haskel,' pp. 22, 23) Der Mensch darf sein gut, un' klug, un' frumm. Gut allēin känn a Scharlatan äuch sein; klug allēin känn an Apikōres äuch sein; un' frumm allēin känn a Narr äuch sein. Die grösste Reichkeit is' as män is' gesund; dās grösste Vergenügen is' as män hāt a ruhig Harz; dās grösste Glück is' as män is' frumm, wie män darf zu sein. A grōsser Mensch is' wie a Feuer: sein mit ihm vun weiten, leucht' er un' waremt; vun nāhnten, brennt er. * * * * * Der Narr bei an Unglück beschuldigt dem Anderen; der Frummer beschuldigt sich allēin; der Kluger Kēinem nit. Vun zu viel Ahawo känn män äuch viel leiden, wie vun zu viel Ssino: Jōssef hat zwēi Māl gelitten, bēide Māl vun zu viel Ahawo, ēin Māl vun Vāter's, dās andere Māl vun Potifar's Weib. Nit alle Māl känn män gläuben Trähren: Jōssef's Brüder hāben äuch gewēint, beschas see hāben gebracht Jainkefn dās varblutigte Hemdel. E. Z. ZWEIFEL. VI. DIE STIEFMUTTER ('Jüdische Lieder,' pp. 40-43) Auf'n Bess-hakwores, unter a Mazeewe, Hört sich bitter a Kol vun a Nekeewe; V. WORDS OF WISDOM Man must be good, and wise, and pious. Even a charlatan can be good alone; an apostate can be wise alone; a fool can be pious alone. * * * * * The greatest riches is to be well; the greatest pleasure is to have a peaceful heart; the greatest happiness is to be pious as one ought to be. * * * * * A great man is like fire: approach it from a distance, and it shines and warms you; come close to it, and it burns you.