So much has been said of Kalir's obscurity that one quotation must, in fairness be given of Kalir at his simplest and best.

The passage is taken from a hymn sung on the seventh day of Tabernacles, the day of the great Hosannas: O give ear to the prayer of those who long for thy salvation, Rejoicing before thee with the willows of the brook, And save us now! O redeem the vineyard which thou hast planted, And sweep thence the strangers, and save us now! O regard the covenant which thou hast sealed in us! O remember for us the father who knew thee, To whom thou, too, didst make known thy love, And save us now! O deal wondrously with the pure in heart That thy providence may be seen of men, and save us now! O lift up Zion's sunken gates from the earth, Exalt the spot to which our eyes all turn, And save us now! Such hymns won for Kalir popularity, which, however, is now much on the wane.
BIBLIOGRAPHY KALIR AND JANNAI.
Graetz .-- III, 4.
Translations of Poems in Editions of the Prayer-Book, and _J.Q.R._, VII, p.

460; IX, p.

291.
L.N.

Dembitz,--_Jewish Services_, p.