The Tabernacle, a poem by Rosa Emma Salaman (1891)

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Date: 2022-03-03

Last Updated: 2022-03-03

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Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English Romanticism, English vernacular prayer, Prayers as poems, Trees, המשכן the Mishkan

Excerpt: "The Tabernacle" by Rosa Emma Collins née Salaman was published in The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star vol. 56, p. 688. . . .

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	The Tabernacle. Leviticus 23:33-43.
	Let us build to the Lord of the earth in each place The Tent, which His glorious presence will grace. ’Twill be hallowed with light that descends from on high, Where the prayers and the praises are heard thro’ the sky.
	’Tis the time when the beauty of earth is fulfilled. And the stars all look down on the Tent that we build; When the moon in her robing of silver attire, Approaches in silence, the sun’s crimson fire!
	All the splendour of heaven, the beauties of earth, Exult in the love that has given them birth! The boughs of thick trees with their leaves all entwine, Hound the delicate stems of the Myrtle and Vine;
	The Palm Trees are clasping the Willows with joy, A rapture that death cannot change or destroy: Each tree that was bearing its fruit o’er the land. Owes renewal of life, to the One mighty hand!
	Its exquisite beauty enchanting our sight. One thought has created, for taste and delight. Choice flowers in manifold colors and scent, Adorn the frail walls of the gorgeous built tent;
	Where “showers of blessings” from promise divine, Replete with His mandates, eternally shine! Now twilight glides gently o’er tree, fruit and flower; And fragrant the breath of the exquisite bower.
	The lamps that were burning, are fast growing dim, While angels have enter’d, and chant a soft hymn; ’Tis the music of heaven! their voices ascending, In tones most celestial, with praises are blending.
	The trees are all trembling with joy, and the Rose Has awaken’d to see where the angels repose; But they folded their wings all impervious thro’ night, And vanish’d ere dawn spread her roseate light!

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“The Tabernacle” by Rosa Emma Collins née Salaman was published in The Latter-Day Saints’ Millennial Star vol. 56, p. 688.

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The Tabernacle (Rosa Emma Salaman 1891)

 

Contributor: Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription)

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  Name: Aharon N. Varady (editing/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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  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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