{"collection":"Judaism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/jud/sig/sig48.htm","path":"jud/sig/sig48.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/jud/sig/sig48.htm","text":"Selected Religious Poems of Solomon ibn Gabirol, tr. by Israel Zangwill, [1923]\nMy heart craves to praise Thee,\n But I am unable.\n Would my understanding\n Were as spacious as Solomon\u2019s.\n Without it my wisdom\n As yet ill suffices\n For expounding Thy wonders\n And Thy deeds of beneficence\n Wrought for me and all mankind.\n Without Thee all\u2019s hopeless,\n And where is the rock\n Sustaining, suspending\n The weight of the world?\n I am as one orphaned;\n Nay, on Thee I am cast.\n What then can I do\n But look to Thee, wait on Thee,\n In whose hand is the spirit\n Of all that is living,\n In whose hand is the breath\n Of all the creation?","title":"Selected Religious Poems of Solomon ibn Gabirol: 45. My H...","type":"page"}