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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EIN URALTER SPRUCH, by HEINRICH HEINE Poet's Biography
First Line: Most prayers of my childhood days
Last Line: Boree peri hagofen.
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Jews; Prayer; Judaism
First Line: Most prayers of my childhood days
Last Line: Boree peri hagofen.
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Jews; Prayer; Judaism
MOST prayers of my childhood days
From memory have fled,
No prayer at meals, at rising,
Nor when I go to bed.
But one I hold in high esteem,
And looms in large proportion;
My stay it is in happy hours,
And staff in my misfortune.
And would you know this pray'r of mine,
Mosaic interwoven?
It is the ancient formula
Boree Peri Hagofen.
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