Abraham Isaac Kook (1865–1935) first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of the British Mandatory Palestine
Arpilei Tohar (1914), p. 2.
“Do not expect again the phoenix hour,
The triple-towered sky, the dove's complaining,
Sudden the rain of gold and heart's first ease
Traced under trees by the eldritch light of sundown.”
From Feathers to Iron (1935)
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