Selected Poems (Engelse vertaling)

69 JEHUDAH HALEVI

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FORSAKEN

(The Hebrew text is translated from an Arabic song)
(For rhymed version see page 161)

I am of little worth and poor when parted

From my glory, and my limbs become like a
shadow,

Until I am grown old, but not by reason of
my years.

For 10, my witnesses—the years of my pil-
grimage!

But I have grown old in his faithlessness;
for if indeed

He would return to me, my youth too would
return.