<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><h1 class="title" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; float: left; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-weight: normal;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">An Arab Shepherd Is Searching For His Goat On Mount Zion</font></span></h1><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><br clear="all"></span><div class="poem"><div style="margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">An Arab shepherd is searching for his goat on Mount Zion <br>And on the opposite hill I am searching for my little boy. <br>An Arab shepherd and a Jewish father <br>Both in their temporary failure. <br>Our two voices met above <br>The Sultan's Pool in the valley between us. <br>Neither of us wants the boy or the goat <br>To get caught in the wheels <br>Of the "Had Gadya" machine. <br><br>Afterward we found them among the bushes, <br>And our voices came back inside us <br>Laughing and crying. <br><br>Searching for a goat or for a child has always been <br>The beginning of a new religion in these mountains.</span></div></div><div class="poet"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Yehuda Amichai</span></div></body></html>