Selected Poems (Engelse vertaling)

106 JEHUDAH HALEVI

64

MORNING HYMN

All the stars of morning sing to Thee,
For the radiance of their shining is of Thee;
And the sons of God, standing by the watches
Of night and day, glorify the glorious Name;
And the company of saints receive the word

from them,
And, every dawn, wake early to seek Thine
house.

the year 4828. If the word נדוד which occurs so obscurely
in the following line is a mnemonic, as S. D. Luzzatto
suggests, the inference is that the exile had endured 64
years over the thousand and that the poem was written
in 4892 = 1132 C. E.