Selected Poems (Engelse vertaling)

4 JEHUDAH HALEVI

And the Lord's glory alone was thy light;
No sun nor moon nor stars were luminants for
thee.

I would choose for my soul to pour itself out

within that place
Where the spirit of God was outpoured upon
thy chosen.

i chron. 29.23. Thou art the house of royalty; thou art the
throne of the Lord, and how¹Do slaves sit now upon thy princes' thrones?

Would I might be wandering in the places
where

Gen. 35,7. God was revealed unto thy seers and messen-
gers.

P9.55,8. O who will make me wings, that I may fly afar,
And lay the ruins of my cleft heart among thy
broken cliffs!

I would fall, with my face upon thine earth and
take delight

P3. 102,15. In thy stones and be tender to thy dust.

Neh. 2,3.5. Yea, more, when standing by my fathers' tombs

Gen. 23,6. I would marvel, in Hebron, over the chosen of
thy graves.

I would pass into thy forest and thy fruitful

field, and stand
Within thy Gilead, and wonder at thy mount
beyond—²

¹  See Harkavy, who reads ואי ך, while Brody reads .ואם

²  i. e. east of Jordan.