Hagar

 Moshe D. Shafrir-Stillman
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 Hagar (a ballad)

 “And Abraham rose up early in the morning and took bread and a bottle of water and gave it unto

Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, with the child and sent away; and she departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-Sheba.”  (Genesis 21, 14)

Guercino Abramo ripudia Agar

He rose up early in the morning

And took bread

And a bottle of water

And gave it unto Hagar,

Put it on her shoulder.

As he sent her away

He dared not look her in the eyes;

When he placed the child in her arms,

His face was pale with shame

As he sent them from home.

She went on her way in the morning,

She went with the child who was crying,

She went out there in the sun,

She went south to the wilderness

Wandering to and fro

 In the dry desert of Beer-Sheba.

And when they finished the bread

And the water from the goatskin,

Then under one of the shrubs

She cast her own child.

She went and sat down over against him

A good way off, As it were a bow shot,

With no strength left

She sat there and wept

For she said, let me

Not see my child’s death.

And there was only the blazing sun

With a quiet crying of the child,

So that only God could hear

And salvage a dying lad.

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