Selected Poems (Engelse vertaling)

46 JEHUDAH HALEVI

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PARTED LOVERS

isa. 57.9. Wherefore, O fair one, dost withhold thy
messengers

isa. 13.8. From the lover whose frame is filled with the
pains of thee?

Knowest thou not that thy lover awaiteth
nothing from fate

But to hear the voice of thy greeting?

If parting be decreed for the two of us,

Ps. 17.15. Stand yet a little, while I gaze upon thy face.

I know not if my heart be held back within
my frame

Gen. 13,3. Or if it goeth forth upon thy wanderings.

By the life of love, remember the days of
thy longing, as I—

I remember the nights of thy delight.

As thine image passeth into my dream,

So let me pass, I entreat thee, into thy dreams.

isa. 51,15. jer. Between me and thee roar the waves of a sea
31.34. of tears

And I cannot pass over unto thee.

But O if thy steps should draw nigh to cross—