I Look for You

     Solomon Ibn Gabirol

I look for you early,
my rock and my refuge,
                  offering you worship
            morning and night;
before your vastness
I become confused
             and afraid for you to see
     The thoughts of my heart.

What could the heart
and tongue compose,
              or spirit's strength
      within me to suit you?
But song soothes you
and so I'll give praise
               to you being as long
       as your breath-in-me moves.

[Hebrew/Spanish, translated by Peter Cole.  For an alternate translation with more structure and rhyme (Israel Zangwill, 1923), see http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/sig/sig04.htm]