Dance figure

For the Marriage in Cana of Galilee

 

 

 

Dark eyed,

 

O woman of my dreams,

 

Ivory sandaled,

 

There is none like thee among the dancers,

 

None with swift feet.

 

 

 

I have not found thee in the tents,

 

In the broken darkness.

 

I have not found thee at the well-head

 

Among the women with pitchers.

 

 

 

Thine arms are as a young sapling under the bark;

 

Thy face as a river with lights.

 

 

 

White as an almond are thy shoulders;

 

As new almonds stripped from the husk.

They guard thee not with eunuchs;

 

Not with bars of copper.

 

 

Gilt turquoise and silver are in the place of thy rest.

 

A brown robe, with threads of gold woven in patterns, hast thou gathered about thee,

 

O Nathat-lkanaie, “Tree-at-the-river.”

 

 

 

As a rillet among the sedge are thy hands upon me;

 

Thy fingers a frosted stream.

 

 

 

Thy maidens are white like pebbles;

 

Their music about thee!

 

 

 

There is none like thee among the dancers;

 

None with swift feet.