Selected Poems (Engelse vertaling)

106 JEHUDAH HALEVI

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VISION OF GOD

(For rhymed version see page 164)

To meet the fountain of the life of truth I run,
For I weary of a life of vanity and emptiness.
To see the face of my King is mine only aim;
isa. 8.12. I will fear none but Him, nor set up any other
to be feared.
Would that it were mine to see Him in a dream!
I would sleep an everlasting sleep and never
wake.

Would I might behold His face within my heart!
Mine eyes would never ask to look beyond.