My heart is in the east, and I in the uttermost west— <br />How can I find savour in food? How shall it be sweet to me? <br />How shall I render my vows and my bonds, while yet <br />Zion lieth beneath the fetter of Edom, and I in Arab chains? <br />A light thing would it seem to me to leave all the good things of Spain— <br />Seeing how precious in mine eyes to behold the dust of the desolate sanctuary. <br /> <br />Translated by Nina Salaman<br /><br />Yehudah HaLevi<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/my-heart-is-in-the-east-2/
