{"collection":"Judaism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/jud/sig/sig52.htm","path":"jud/sig/sig52.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/jud/sig/sig52.htm","text":"Selected Religious Poems of Solomon ibn Gabirol, tr. by Israel Zangwill, [1923]\nTo Thee, O living God, my being yearns,\n For Thee my soul consumes, my spirit burns.\nWithin Thy chosen people\u2019s hearts Thy glory\n Inhabits, be they babes or fathers hoary,\nTo bind Thy chosen to Thy chariot wheels.\n And with the radiance that Thee conceals\nI fill my heart and make for my delight\n A lampstand set beside me in the night.\nThe wisest weary them to comprehend\n Thy mystery, then how should I ascend\nThe secret of Thy glorious shrine to tell?\n Thy shining semblance is unsearchable.\nThen let my craving to my own soul turn\n To find the wealth divine for which I yearn.\nFor Wisdom\u2019s house is as of sapphires builded,\n Her pavement as with gold of Ophir gilded.\nWithin the body is her hidden lair,\n Like a young lion she is couchant there.\nShe is my bliss and joy in lamentation,\n She is my thinking cap of meditation.\nWhat man dare all her beauty\u2019s praises sum,\n Or be to her perfections wholly dumb?\nAnswer her swiftly, God of grace above,\n For she is sick with longing for Thy love.\n\"Gently, dear damsel, sip salvation\u2019s water,\n For thou, most dazzling maiden, art My daughter.\"","title":"Selected Religious Poems of Solomon ibn Gabirol: 49. The ...","type":"page"}