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Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917.

By Heinrich Heine

Ein uralter Spruch

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.