Send Your Spirit
Translated By Peter Cole
Send your spirit
to revive our corpses,
and ripple the longed-for
land again.
The crops come from you;
you’re good to all—
and always return
to restore what has been.
Copyright Credit: Shelomo Ibn Gabirol, "Send Your Spirit" from The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain 950-1492 translated by Peter Cole. Copyright © 2007 by Princeton University Press. Reprinted by permission of Princeton University Press.