{"collection":"Judaism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/jud/sig/sig21.htm","path":"jud/sig/sig21.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/jud/sig/sig21.htm","text":"Selected Religious Poems of Solomon ibn Gabirol, tr. by Israel Zangwill, [1923]\nGod:\nThough bereaved and in mourning, why sit thus in tears?\n Shall thy spirit surrender its hopes to its fears?\n Though the end has been long and no light yet appears,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Hope on, hapless one, a while longer.\nI will send thee an angel My path to prepare,\n On the brow of Mount Zion thy King to declare,\n The Lord ever regnant shall reign again there,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Thy King, O proclaim, comes to Zion.\nIsrael:\nHow long, O my God, shall I wait Thee in vain?\n How long shall Thy people in exile remain?\n Shall the sheep ever shorn never utter their pain\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0But dumbly through all go on waiting?\nHave faith, hapless one, I will pardon and free,\n Not always shalt thou be abhorrent to Me,\n But be Mine e\u2019en as I shall return unto thee,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2019Tis yet but a little space longer.\nHow long till the turn of my fate shall draw near,\n How long ere the sealed and the closed be made clear,\n And the palace of strangers a roof shall appear?\nHope on for a shelter and refuge.\n With healing shall yet thy entreaties be graced,\n As when Caphtor was crushed shalt thou triumph re-taste,\n And the flowers cast off shall re-bloom in the waste,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Hope on but a little space longer.\nMy people of yore \u2019neath one people was drowned,\n But from Egypt or Babel deliverance found,\n But now we are hopelessly compassed around\n By four birds of prey grim and speckled.\n They have eaten my flesh, yet to leave me are loath.\nThe Rock you must trust to remember His oath,\n Your lover that went shall return to His troth,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Hope on, hapless one, a whit longer.","title":"Selected Religious Poems of Solomon ibn Gabirol: 18. God ...","type":"page"}