and the pine tree finds a nest in the recesses of the jagged
mountain. But in me sighs increase, they bring me low--my friend
will not yet hearken unto me.

"All sings that lives in the woodland. The beasts of the earth
rejoice, and in the branches of the trees the winged creatures
warble, each to his mate. My well-beloved alone turns her steps
away from me, and under the shadow of my roof I am left in
solitude.

"The plants spring from the soil, the grass glitters in the
splendor of the sun, and the earth is covered with verdure. Upon
the meadows, the lilies and the roses bloom. Thus my hopes
blossom, too, and I am filled with joyous expectation--my friend
will come back and in her arms enfold me."

The acknowledged master of the humanists in southern Russia was Isaac
Bar Levinsohn, of Kremenetz, in Wolhynia (1788-1860). His proper place
is in a history of the emancipation of the Russian Jews, rather than in
a history of literature. Levinsohn was born in the country of Hasidism.
A happy chance carried him to Brody when he was very young. He attached
himself there to the humanist circle, and made the acquaintance of the
Galician masters. On his return to his own country, he was actuated by
the desire to work for the emancipation and promote the culture of the
Russian Jews.

Like Wessely, Levinsohn remained on strictly orthodox ground in his
writings, and in the name of traditional religion itself he attacks
superstition, and urges the obligatory study of the Hebrew language, the
pursuit of the various branches of knowledge, and the learning of