Selected Poems (Engelse vertaling)

50 JEHUDAH HALEVI

In the field of the daughters of delight, the
sheaves of love
Gen. 37,7. Make obeisance unto thy sheaf.

cant. 5,1. Would that I might live until I had gathered
Spices and myrrh from amid thy footprints.

11 Sam.5.24, I cannot hear thy voice, but I hear
i chron. 14,15. Upon the secret places of my heart, the sound
of thy steps.

Ex. 32,34. On the day when thou wilt revive
isa. 26,19 The victims whom love for thee hath slain—
on the day when thy dead shall live anew,

Then turn again to my soul to restore it to

my body; for on the day
Of thy departure, when thou wentest forth, it
went out after thee.

Ask, O doe of grace, for the peace of thy
lover,

Should Time ask of thee thy request.

Return, so our God shall restore thee to the
haven

Of thy desire, and to the land of thy true
belonging.