Halcyon
I Want To Die In My Own Bed / Yehuda Amichai
All night the army came up from Gilgal
To get to the killing field, and that's all.
In the ground, warf and woof, lay the dead.
I want to die in My own bed.
Like slits in a tank, their eyes were uncanny,
I'm always the few and they are the many.
I must answer. They can interrogate My head.
But I want to die in My own bed.
The sun stood still in Gibeon. Forever so, it's willing
to illuminate those waging battle and killing.
I may not see My wife when her blood is shed,
But I want to die in My own bed.
Samson, his strength in his long black hair,
My hair they sheared when they made me a hero
Perforce, and taught me to charge ahead.
I want to die in My own bed.
I saw you could live and furnish with grace
Even a lion's den, if you've no other place.
I don't even mind to die alone, to be dead,
But I want to die in My own bed.
Translated from the Hebrew by Barbara and Benjamin Harshav
| Few | 1-3 |
| Handful | 4-8 |
| Several | 9-21 |
| Pack | 22-81 |
| Many | 82-128 |
| Gathering | 129-227 |
| Horde | 228-462 |
| Throng | 463-815 |
| Host | 816-2,500 |
| Legion | 2,501-9,999 |
| Myriad | 10,000-24,999 |
| Sea | 25,000-49,999 |
| Cornucopia | 50,000-Inf |
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To set the cause above renown,
To love the game beyond the prize,
To honor, while you strike him down,
The foe that comes with fearless eyes;
To count the life of battle good
And dear the land that gave you birth,
And dearer yet the brotherhood
That binds the brave of all the earth.
Sir Henry Newbolt