Songs of Exile/Song of Loneliness

by Judah Halevi

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Song of Loneliness

By Jehudah Halevi

I AM of little worth and poor, apart
From Him, my Glory; and amid the years
My form grows like a shadow; till my heart
Is old, but not by my years' number; lo,
My witnesses:—the number of the years
Of this my sojourning. Nay, but I grow
So old in His forsaking.—If in truth
He shall come back to me amid the years,
Then shall come back to me with Him my youth.