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.
From: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/146848/send-your-spirit
Date: c1035 (original in Hebrew); 2007 (translation in English)
By: Solomon ibn Gabirol (c1021-c1070)
Translated by: Peter Cole (1957- )
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