"Lived to tell the tale—"
Dooley, Dickinson, Leskly, Amichai, Cohen, Dylan
Thomas Dooley:
Emily Dickinson:
Abraham to kill him / Was [+distinctly] told—/ Isaac was an Urchin—/ Abraham was old—// Not a hesitation—/ Abraham complied—/ Flattered by Obeisance / Tyranny demurred—// Isaac—to his children / Lived to tell the tale— / Moral—with a Mastiff / Manners — may prevail. [+directly] [+may]
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Hezy Leskly (tr. from Hebrew by Lisa Katz):
Yehuda Amichai (tr. from Hebrew by Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell):
Leonard Cohen, “Story of Isaac,” rec. October 1968:
Bob Dylan, “Highway 61 Revisited,” rec. June 16 – August 4, 1965:
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