Selected Poems (Engelse vertaling)

147 JEHUDAH HALEVI

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SLEEPER WITH HEART AWAKE

(For rhymed version see page 174)

0 Sleeper, with heart awake, burning and

tempest-tossed,
Go forth now and shake thyself, and walk in
the light of My face.

Num. 24,17. Arise, ride on and prosper: there shall come
forth a star for thee,
And he who lay down in the dungeon shall
go up to the summit of Sinai.

Let not their soul exult which say: Condemned
Is Zion; for lo! My heart is there, and Mine
eyes are there.