Selected Poems (Engelse vertaling)

106 JEHUDAH HALEVI

The clouds, and the corner-stones laid.
And they gave thanks to their Maker, since
they knew
The excellency of light over darkness.

So will He yet light up my gloom,
And uphold him who raiseth my fallen estate,
And make the light of mine assembly shine
forth.

Then the chosen one yet shall boast herself:
"Behold the light of the Rock of my praise
Is mine, though I sit in darkness "^l

is הלי^, of ה the customary יהודה ליי ¹ In the acrostic

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