A Longing to Return to the Land of Israel
My heart is in the east, and I in the uttermost west.
How can I find savor 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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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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| Scheme | ABCDBEFB |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 385 |
| Words | 82 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
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