Tirzah

FOUNDED IN I912 BY HARRIET MONROE

VOLUME XCII NUMBER 4

JULY 1958

YAKOV COHEN

TIRZAH

Day after day as the day sets

And the sun's heat is a waning,

There walks Tirzah, lovely faun,

Into the garden singing.

Day after day as the day sets

To listen to her singing

A cherub comes from the skies above

Down to the garden winging.

In mysterious quiet all is wrapped,

The shadow spreading thickens,

But singing Tirzah still sings on

And still the cherub listens.

Then as a sudden tremor moves

Through leaves of tree about her

Tirzah, a slight moment, shudders

And stares expectantly behind her.

But nothing whatever does she see,

Completely unaware,

Confidently on she sings

For the cherub's listening ear.