Hanukah in Song and Story: Longfellow to Herzl, Festival Of Lights Inspired Great Writers (American JeWlsh Press Feature) The Hanukah Festival makes a vivid appeal to the imagina- tion-charged mind of the child, and perhaps essentially it is for the same reason it has made such an impact in song and story. The writer and compos- er's mind is kindred to the child's in being of "imagination compact." The story of the he- roic Maccabaean has been de- picted by a string of writers ranging all the way from Grace Aguilar to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. In song, the tradi- tional Rock of Ages and the great oratorios of Judas Macca- beus by Handel testify to its impress. Emma Lazarus, the young American poetess, some of whose lines are inscribed on the Statue of Liberty in the New York har- bor, chose the Maccabaean theme for several of her best ef- forts. Her poem, Kindle the taper like a steadfast star, And add each night a luster till afar— has been set to music. And there is her famous poem, "The Banner of the Jew." Wake, Israel, wake, Recall to clay The glorious Maccabean rage. Could any Jew dreaming of the restoration of Israel not be moved by the words: 0 deem not dead the martial fire, Say not the mystic flame is spent, With Moses' law and David's lyre, Your ancient strength re- mains unbent, Let but an Ezra arise anew •To lift the banner of the Jew! And the Yiddish "ghetto poet," Morris Rosenfeld, contemplating the twinkling Hanukah candles, stands agape in admiration: for a Jewish heroism that seemed so distant to his own generation. • .r Ben Shahar in his poem, truths. The cleansing of the "Little Hanukah Candle," writes Temple by the Hasmoneans is humorously and tenderly, seeing symbolical for man's cleansing the little Hanukah candles as trying to cheer the disheartened of the human heart. Oh thus shall mercy's hand of the world generally. delight To cleanse the blemished heart As though a tear were in your eye. 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