{"collection":"Judaism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/jud/sig/sig35.htm","path":"jud/sig/sig35.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/jud/sig/sig35.htm","text":"Selected Religious Poems of Solomon ibn Gabirol, tr. by Israel Zangwill, [1923]\nLord of the world, O hear my psalm,\n \u00a0\u00a0And as sweet incense take my plea.\n \u00a0\u00a0My heart hath set its love on Thee\n And finds in speech its only balm.\nThis thought forever haunts my mind,\n \u00a0\u00a0Some day to Thee I must return,\n \u00a0\u00a0From Thee I came and backward yearn\n My very fount and source to find.\nNot mine the merit that I stand\n \u00a0\u00a0Before Thee thus, since all is Thine,\n \u00a0\u00a0The glorious work of force divine,\n No product of my heart or hand.\nMy soul to Thee was humbly bent\n \u00a0\u00a0Even before she had her birth,\n \u00a0\u00a0Before upon the sphere of earth\n Her heav\u2019nly greatness made descent.","title":"Selected Religious Poems of Solomon ibn Gabirol: 32. Lord...","type":"page"}