{"collection":"Judaism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/jud/sig/sig10.htm","path":"jud/sig/sig10.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/jud/sig/sig10.htm","text":"Selected Religious Poems of Solomon ibn Gabirol, tr. by Israel Zangwill, [1923]\nOpen the gate, my love,\n \u00a0\u00a0Arise and open the gate,\n For my soul is dismayed\n And sorely afraid\n \u00a0\u00a0And Hagar\u2019s brood mocks my estate.\nThe heart of the hand-maid\u2019s sons\n \u00a0\u00a0Is hateful and haughty grown,\n And all because of the cry\n Of Ishmael piercing the sky,\n \u00a0\u00a0Ascending and reaching the Throne.\nI stumble \u2019twixt beast and beast,\n \u00a0\u00a0The wild ass swift to slay\n Has followed my flight\n From the courts of Night\n \u00a0\u00a0Where crushed of the boar I lay.\nAlas! for my thick-sealed fate,\n \u00a0\u00a0Ah woe for the days to come!\n It helps but to pain me\n That none can explain me,\n \u00a0\u00a0And I, myself, I am dumb.","title":"Selected Religious Poems of Solomon ibn Gabirol: 7. Open ...","type":"page"}