Selected Poems (Engelse vertaling)

29 JEHUDAH HALEVI

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ON THE SEA
VII

Nahum 2,11. I cry to God with a melting heart and knees

that smite together,
is. 21,3. While anguish is in all loins,

On a day when the oarsmen are astounded at
the deep,

Ps. 76.6. When even the pilots find not their hands.

How shall I be otherwise, since I, on a ship's
deck,

Suspended between waters and heavens,
Ps. 107.27. Am dancing and tossed about?—But this is

but a light thing,
Ex. 5.1. If I may but hold the festal dance in the
Ps. 116.19. midst of thee, O Jerusalem!