Yehudah HaLevi Longing Poems

1.
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?
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