Selected Poems (Engelse vertaling)

66 JEHUDAH HALEVI

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DOVE BESIDE THE WATER BROOKS

Cant. 5,12. Dove beside the water brooks—
Gen. 3,6. A delight is she to the eyes.

job 28,1. Lo, there is a mine for silver,

But one like my dove, who can find?
Cant. 6.4. Beautiful is my love like Tirzah,

Comely as Jerusalem.

Why turneth she hither and thither
To dwell in tents,

Since in my heart is a camp for her dwelling,
Ps. 104,25. Great and wide?

Her bosom hath taken spoil of my heart
And wrought upon me
Enchantments, which the magicians
Of Egypt could not do.