{"collection":"Judaism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/jud/sig/sig44.htm","path":"jud/sig/sig44.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/jud/sig/sig44.htm","text":"Selected Religious Poems of Solomon ibn Gabirol, tr. by Israel Zangwill, [1923]\nBe wise, my precious soul, and haste\n \u00a0\u00a0To bow to God in reverence.\n Let vanities no more be chased,\n Bethink thee ere this world lies waste,\n \u00a0\u00a0The world that waits thee going hence.\nThy life to God\u2019s life is akin,\n \u00a0\u00a0Concealed like His beneath a veil,\n Since He is free of flaw or sin,\n Like purity thou too canst win,\n \u00a0\u00a0To reach perfection wherefore fail?\nAnd as His arm upholds the sky,\n \u00a0\u00a0Do thou thy dumb brute body lift,\n Thou, soul, to which we can descry\n No like on earth\u2014O magnify\n \u00a0\u00a0The God of whom thou art the gift.\nGreet then, my soul, thy Rock with praise,\n \u00a0\u00a0Hail him, my inmost heart, with song\n Unceasingly throughout my days,\n And let all souls their voices raise\n \u00a0\u00a0My benediction to prolong.","title":"Selected Religious Poems of Solomon ibn Gabirol: 41. To M...","type":"page"}