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Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917.

By Judah Ha-Levi (Trans. H. Pereira Mendes)

My Heart Is in the East

MY heart is in the East, tho’ in the West I live,

The sweet of human life no happiness can give,

Religion’s duties fail to lift my soul on high;

’Neath Edom Zion writhes, in Arab chains I lie!

No joy in sunny Spain mine eyes can ever see

For Zion, desolate, alone hath charms for me!