Selected Poems (Engelse vertaling)

JEHUDAH HALEVI 167

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UNTIL DAY AND NIGHT SHALL CEASE

Lo! sun and moon, these minister for aye;

The laws of day and night cease nevermore:
Given for signs to Jacob's seed that they

Shall ever be a nation—till these be o'er.
If with His left hand He should thrust away,
Lo! with His right hand He shall draw them
nigh.

Let them not cry despairing, nay, nor say:

Hope faileth and our strength is near to die.
Let them believe that they shall be alway,
Nor cease until there be no night nor day.