Selected Poems (Engelse vertaling)

JEHUDAH HALEVI 161

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(The Hebrew text is translated from an Arabic song)

I am of little worth, and poor, apart

From him, my glory; and amid the years
My form grows like a shadow; till my heart
Is old, but not by my years' number; 10,
My witnesses:—the number of the years

Of this my sojourning. Nay, but I grow
So old in his forsaking.—If in truth

He shall come back to me amid the years,
Then shall come back to me with him my youth.