{"collection":"Judaism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/jud/sig/sig12.htm","path":"jud/sig/sig12.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/jud/sig/sig12.htm","text":"Selected Religious Poems of Solomon ibn Gabirol, tr. by Israel Zangwill, [1923]\nSix years were decreed for a slave to wait\n \u00a0\u00a0When his freedom he sought at his master\u2019s hand,\n But the years of my bondage lack term or date,\n \u00a0\u00a0It is hard, O my Master, to understand.\nWhy, Sire, should a hand-maid\u2019s son bear sway,\n \u00a0\u00a0And me with affliction and anguish task?\n There cometh no answer, howe\u2019er I pray,\n \u00a0\u00a0In despite that each day for reply I ask.\nWhat word at the last wilt Thou say, my King?\n \u00a0\u00a0An Thou findest no ransom, O Lord, take me!\n Take me for Thy people as offering,\n \u00a0\u00a0I will serve Thee for ever and ne\u2019er go free.","title":"Selected Religious Poems of Solomon ibn Gabirol: 9. Six Y...","type":"page"}