Selected Poems (Engelse vertaling)

36 JEHUDAH HALEVI

IN THE WILDERNESS OF EGYPT
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Fate hath tossed me into the wilderness of
Memphis:

isa. 22,17-18. Bid it carry me away and toss me yet again

Until I behold the wilderness of Judah,
Ps. 48,3. And come to the sides of the north, the
beautiful height,
And I gird me there with glory of the name of
my God,

And clothe me and veil me with the beauty
of His holiness.