Future Happiness, a poem by Rosa Emma Salaman (1853)

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Date: 2022-03-02

Last Updated: 2025-02-06

Categories: Mourning

Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English Romanticism, English vernacular prayer, Prayers as poems, עולם הבא Olam Haba

Excerpt: "Future Happiness" by Rosa Emma Collins née Salaman was published in her bound collections of poetry, Poems (1853), p. 35-39. . . .

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	Future Happiness.
וְאָמְרוּ הָאָרֶץ הַלֵּזוּ הַנְּשַׁמָּה הָיְתָה כְּגַן־עֵדֶן וְהֶעָרִים הֶחֳרֵבוֹת וְהַנְשַׁמּוֹת וְהַנֶּהֱרָסוֹת בְּצוּרוֹת יָשָׁבוּ׃	And they shall say, “That land, once desolate, has become like the garden of Eden; and the cities, once ruined, desolate, and ravaged, are now populated and fortified.” (Ezekiel 36:35)
כִּי אִם בְּתוֹרַת יְהֹוָה חֶפְצוֹ וּבְתוֹרָתוֹ יֶהְגֶּה יוֹמָם וָלָיְלָה׃	But his delight is in the instruction of YHVH; and in his Torah he meditates day and night. (Psalms 1:2)[1] These verses are only referenced and not published with translations in the original text. They are provided in full here for the framing Rosa Emma Salaman intended for her work.
	Oh! with what ecstatic pleasure Shall the righteous, like a stream, Overflow with that lost treasure, Happiness! no more a dream.
	Earth in beauty! earth in gladness! Flowers in eternal bloom! All that was of grief and sadness Buried low within the tomb.
	See, the loving and the lowly, See, the patient and the meek, Clad in garments pure and holy, Walking forth their God to meet.
	Fragrance through the air is stealing, Sighing as an angel sighs, Beauty to each eye revealing, Beauty of the earth and skies!
	Now the birds, in joyous chorus, Flap the bright exulting wing; Rainbow-hued, they hover o’er us, Upward to the heavens they sing.
	Now the vine, luxuriant growing, And the palm-tree, spreading wide; Every brilliant blossom blowing, Rose and citron side by side.
	Here the bud, so soft and tender, There the fragrant brier green, Trees of most unearthly splendour Wave the graceful branch between.
	‘Tis the land where beauty shineth, ‘Tis the land of perfect love; Peace and joy here intertwineth, Crowned with glory from above.
	None are desolate and lonely; Tears will never more be seen In those radiant eyes, where only Melancholy grief hath been.
	Wealth and grandeur of the nations! High and mighty of the earth! Where are thy exalted stations? Where the places of thy birth?
	Gone for ever! and forsaken! They were but an empty dream; Like the highest boughs, when shaken, Or the false and shallow stream.
	But the blessed and the tender, They who had no wealth to give, Heart and soul they did surrender, And for this their souls shall live;
	They who sought the poor to cherish, And rejoice the breaking heart, When the soul was nigh to perish, And the tear of woe to start.
	See, the glorious light is spreading, Dawn of everlasting day! See! the silver orb is shedding One expansive, endless ray.
	Hark! a voice—the dead awaking, With the sound of that great Name; Earth within its centre shaking, God, its maker, to proclaim.
	Through the earth a thousand voices, Through the air angelic strains, Every distant sphere rejoices, God alone in glory reigns!

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“Future Happiness” by Rosa Emma Collins née Salaman was published in her bound collections of poetry, Poems (1853), p. 35-39. We do not know if it had been published elsewhere prior. If you know, please contact us or leave a comment.

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1	These verses are only referenced and not published with translations in the original text. They are provided in full here for the framing Rosa Emma Salaman intended for her work.

Contributor: Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

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  Name: Rosa Emma Salaman
  Bio: Rosa Emma Collins née Salaman (1815-1898), was a poet and translator of Hebrew and German. Poems, published in 1853, was reportedly the only book accepted by Queen Victoria in the year of mourning following Prince Albert's death in 1861. In the United States, her poetry appeared in Isaac Leeser's Occident and American Jewish Advocate. The daughter of Simeon Kensington Salaman (b.1789) and Alice Cowan, Rosa Emma was one of fourteen siblings in a large and literary Jewish family in London, part of the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish community. Two sisters, Kate Salaman and Julia Goodman, were painters -- the former of miniatures and the latter, a prolific portraitist. Her brother, Charles Kensington Salaman, was a British composer and pianist. Her husband, Judah Julius Collins, was a warden of the Western Marble Arch Synagogue in London's West End, and purported to be a descendant of the Baal Shem of London. Their son, Edwin Collins, was a Jewish educator.
  Website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Emma_Salaman
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  Name: Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
  Bio: Aharon Varady (M.A.J.Ed./JTSA Davidson) is a volunteer transcriber for the Open Siddur Project. If you find any mistakes in his transcriptions, please let him know. Shgiyot mi yavin; Ministarot naqeni שְׁגִיאוֹת מִי־יָבִין; מִנִּסְתָּרוֹת נַקֵּנִי "Who can know all one's flaws? From hidden errors, correct me" (Psalms 19:13). If you'd like to directly support his work, please consider donating via his Patreon account. (Varady also translates prayers and contributes his own original work besides serving as the primary shammes of the Open Siddur Project and its website, opensiddur.org.)
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