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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=409624" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 1. The Spanish Jew's Tale; The Legend of Rabbi Ben Levi</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=409624" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Rabbi Ben Levi, on the Sabbath, read<br>A volume of the Law, in which it said,<br>'No man shall look upon my face and live.'<br>And as he read, he prayed that God would give<br>His faithful servant grace with mortal eye<br>To look upon His face and yet not die. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=409624" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Then fell a sudden shadow on the page,<br>And, lifting up his eyes, grown dim with age,<br>He saw the Angel of Death before him stand,<br>Holding a naked sword in his right hand.<br>Rabbi Ben Levi was a righteous man,<br>Yet through his veins a chill of terror ran.<br>With trembling voice he said, 'What wilt thou here?'<br>The angel answered, 'Lo! the time draws near<br>When thou must die; yet first, by God's decree,<br>Whate'er thou askest shall be granted thee.'<br>Replied the Rabbi, 'Let these living eyes<br>First look upon my place in Paradise.' </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=409624" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Then said the Angel, 'Come with me and look.'<br>Rabbi Ben Levi closed the sacred book,<br>And rising, and uplifting his gray head,<br>'Give me thy sword,' he to the Angel said,<br>'Lest thou shouldst fall upon me by the way.'<br>The angel smiled and hastened to obey,<br>Then led him forth to the Celestial Town,<br>And set him on the wall, whence, gazing down,<br>Rabbi Ben Levi, with his living eyes,<br>Might look upon his place in Paradise. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=409624" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Then straight into the city of the Lord<br>The Rabbi leaped with the Death-Angel's sword,<br>And through the streets there swept a sudden breath<br>Of something there unknown, which men call death.<br>Meanwhile the Angel stayed without and cried,<br>'Come back!' To which the Rabbi's voice replied,<br>'No! in the name of God, whom I adore,<br>I swear that hence I will depart no more!' </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=409624" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Then all the Angels cried, 'O Holy One,<br>See what the son of Levi here hath done!<br>The kingdom of Heaven he takes by violence,<br>And in Thy name refuses to go hence!'<br>The Lord replied, 'My Angels, be not wroth;<br>Did e'er the son of Levi break his oath?<br>Let him remain; for he with mortal eye<br>Shall look upon my face and yet not die.' </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=409624" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Beyond the outer wall the Angel of Death<br>Heard the great voice, and said, with panting breath,<br>'Give back the sword, and let me go my way.'<br>Whereat the Rabbi paused, and answered, 'Nay!<br>Anguish enough already hath it caused <br>Among the sons of men.' And while he paused<br>He heard the awful mandate of the Lord<br>Resounding through the air, 'Give back the sword!' </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=409624" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">The Rabbi bowed his head in silent prayer;<br>Then said he to the dreadful Angel, 'Swear,<br>No human eye shall look on it again;<br>But when thou takest away the souls of men,<br>Thyself unseen, and with an unseen sword,<br>Thou wilt perform the bidding of the Lord.'<br>The Angel took the sword again, and swore,<br>And walks on earth unseen forevermore.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=Henry+Wadsworth+Longfellow">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</a></strong></div>