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My Heart Is In the East

Yehuda Halevi

c. 1141
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My heart is in the east, and I in the uttermost west--

How can I find savour in food? How shall it be sweet to me?

How shall I render my vows and my bonds, while yet

Zion lieth beneath the fetter of Edom, and I in Arab chains?

A light thing would it seem to me to leave all the good things of Spain --

Seeing how precious in mine eyes to behold the dust of the desolate sanctuary.

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çøæîá éáì
áøòî óåñá éëðàå çøæîá éáì

áøòé êéàå ìëà-øùà úà äîòèà êéà

ãåòá éøñàå éøãð íìùà äëéà

áøò ìáëá éðàå íåãà ìáçá ïåéö

åîë ãøôñ áåè-ìë áæò éðéòá ì÷é

:áøçð øéáã úåøôò úåàø éðéòá ø÷é



Translated from the Hebrew by Nina Salaman, 1924
This edition published in 1924 by Jewish Publication Society of America 1