The Mind
Fragment
Translated by Emma Lazarus (Poems, 1889) · From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, vol. II (1889)
My friend spoke with insinuating tongue:
"Drink wine, and thy flesh shall be made whole. Look how it hisses in the leathern bottle like a captured serpent." Oh fool! can the sun be forged into a cask stopped with earthly bungs. I know not that the power of wine has ever overmastered my sorrows; for these mighty giants I have found as yet no resting-place.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Gabirol, Solomon ibn. “Fragment.” Translated by Emma Lazarus. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/ibn-gabirol/5/.
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