{"collection":"Judaism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/jud/sig/sig42.htm","path":"jud/sig/sig42.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/jud/sig/sig42.htm","text":"Selected Religious Poems of Solomon ibn Gabirol, tr. by Israel Zangwill, [1923]\n\"Ask of Me, beautiful mouth,\n \u00a0\u00a0What dost thou ask of Me?\n For thy suppliant cry\n Hath ascended on high\n \u00a0\u00a0Inclining My ear to thy plea.\"\n\"First with the lion we met,\n \u00a0\u00a0Next came the leopard\u2019s leap,\n We were fain to take flight\n From our garden\u2019s delight\n \u00a0\u00a0And into a hiding-place creep.\n\"Hardly these creatures had passed,\n \u00a0\u00a0Sated with Judah\u2019s spoil,\n Than the wild ass we feared\n Out of midnight appeared\n \u00a0\u00a0To trample and dwell on our soil.\n\"Ishmael\u2019s offspring command\n \u00a0\u00a0Back to his Arab land,\n As his mother of old\n To her mistress was told\n \u00a0\u00a0To return and submit to her hand.\"","title":"Selected Religious Poems of Solomon ibn Gabirol: 39. Ask ...","type":"page"}