Selected Poems (Engelse vertaling)

52 JEHUDAH HALEVI

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CHOSEN OF BRIDECxROOMS

Carry ye greeting to the chosen of bridegrooms
And his loved ones and faithful friends—
The greeting of a lover who overcometh the

distance with his eyes,
And seeth with his heart, face to face,
When the two children of princes are joined,
isa. 17,10;32,5. Children of nobles, plants of loveliness,

Whose faces give light through the marriage
bower

Like stars through the thickness of clouds.