Selected Poems (Engelse vertaling)

57 JEHUDAH HALEVI

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THE MEETING OF THE STARS

The stars of the world have joined to-day.
'Mid the host on high none are found like
these.

The Pleiads desire such unity,
job 41.8. For no breath can come between them.

The star of the east hath come to the west;
He hath found the sun among the daughters
thereof.

He hath set up a bower of thick branches;
Ps. 19,5. He hath made of them a tent for the sun.