Selected Poems (Engelse vertaling)

56 JEHUDAH HALEVI

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BY AN APPLE TREE

I lift my greeting on the wings of the wind
Cant. 2,17. To my friend, when the heat of the day be-
ginneth to cool.

I ask him nought but to remember the day
of our parting,

When we made a covenant of love by an
apple tree.