Saladin

Nathan, Nathan, The thousand thousand years are not yet done! Not mine that judgment-seat! Enough--farewell! But henceforth be my friend.

FOOTNOTE:

The concluding twenty lines of this translation have appeared in the writer’s “Life of Lessing” (Walter Scott).

FINIS.

Italic text is marked with underscores.

A small number of long lines of poetry (greater than 72 characters) have been broken into two lines, which is made apparent by the extreme right indentation of the broken line (e.g. the lines containing “flames into blossom”).