o you Bar Yohai you in oil be happy oil joy from your friends o you Bar Yohai holy oiling you with oil you oiled & measured holy you hold up a leaf from Holy Crown held on your head your beauty o you Bar Yohai your good home you homed in the day you ran you roamed Hole of the Rocks you hid in gave you glory halos for your head o you Bar Yohai circle of whose trees surround lore of Adonai study wondrous light o hearthlight glows for you your teachers teach you o you Bar Yohai o you flew you in the applefield you drew flowers odors o secrets of the Torah buds & branches you for whom we speak o you Bar Yohai wore your power in faith's war fire at its gates pulled sword from sheath you drew against your enemies o you Bar Yohai where the stones were marble you were there before the lion you who saw the bear's crown jewel (saw but who saw you?) o you Bar Yohai in holiest of holies green line months made months the seven sabbaths secrets of the fifty linked the links of @3shin@1 your links o you Bar Yohai wisdom's ancient @3yod@1 you saw into his glory 32-fold path o onset of high offerings a cherub enters oiled & shining in your light o you Bar Yohai wondrous light o high above you frightened past all sight & hidden call it nothing call it sleep eyes cannot see Used with the permission of Copper Canyon Press, P.O. Box 271, Port Townsend, WA 98368-0271, www.cc.press.org | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONG OF SAUL BEFORE HIS LAST BATTLE by GEORGE GORDON BYRON TO WILLIAM WORDSWORTH by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE THE BOSTON EVENING TRANSCRIPT by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT EPITAPH UPON A CHILD THAT DIED by ROBERT HERRICK SONGS OF TRAVEL: 1. THE VAGABOND by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SESTET SENT TO A FRIEND WITH A VOLUME OF TENNYSON by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH WHEN THE SULTAN GOES TO ISPAHAN by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH |