News at Eleven: There, along the shores of Galilee,

I kept recalling these lines from Shakespeare: Over whose acres walk'd those blessed feet, Which fourteen hundred years ago, were nail'd, For our advantage, on the bitter cross. Actually, there is a total of three poems on Israel in [Jorge Luis] Borges's collection "In Praise of Darkness" (1969). All were later included in his "Obras Completas" (1994) I don't believe they have been rendered into English before. Herein are my versions. First, "To Israel".

from Forward: Borges's Zionist Bent: Newly Translated Poems

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