| Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917. | | | | To the Glory of Jerusalem | | By Judah Ha-Levi |
| | | BEAUTIFUL height! O joy! the whole world’s gladness! | |
| O great King’s city, mountain blest! | |
| My soul is yearning unto thee—is yearning | |
| From limits of the west. | |
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| The torrents heave from depths of mine heart’s passion, | 5 |
| At memory of thine olden state: | |
| The glory of thee which was born to exile, | |
| Thy dwelling desolate. | |
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| And who shall grant me but to rise and reach thee, | |
| Flying on eagle’s pinions fleet, | 10 |
| That I may shed upon thy dust, beloved, | |
| Tears, till thy dust grow sweet? | |
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| I seek thee, though thy King be no more in thee, | |
| Though where the balm hath been of old— | |
| Thy Gilead’s balm—be poisonous adders lurking, | 15 |
| Winged scorpions manifold. | |
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| Is it not to thy stones I shall be tender? | |
| Shall I not kiss them verily? | |
| Shall not the earth taste on my lips be sweeter | |
| Than honey—the earth of thee? | 20 | | | |
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