Between the River Prat and Hidekel Stream
Chaim Nahman Bialik
1906
Between the River Prat and stream Hidekel
on a mountaintop there waves a palm.
And in the palm, among its fronds
lives a hummingbird of gold.
Golden bird! Fly and wheel
go out and find for me my sweet
and whereupon you do find him
bind him up and bring him here.
But if you have no thread of silk
speak a greeting to my heart.
What to tell him…
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