Selected Poems (Engelse vertaling)

174 JEHUDAH HALEVI

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SLEEPER, WITH HEART AWAKE

0 Sleeper with heart that waketh,
Burning and tempest-torn,

Go, shake thee, walk with My radiance
Upon thee borne.

Rise up, ride on and prosper:

A star shall guide thy quest,
Till he that lay down in the dungeon
Reach Sinai's crest.

Let not their soul be joyful

Which talk of Zion's despair,
For there My heart is ever,
And Mine eyes are there.