My heart is in the East (Schaffer, set by A. Copland) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


 While I in western lands do pine,
 My heart is in the East!
 How can I taste of food and wine
 When thou art sore oppress'd?
 How can I vows and oaths repay
 While Edom Zion holds,
 While Arab's bond my land doth sway,
 His chain me tight enfolds?
 Th'abundance of this Spanish lnd
 It is but nought to me,
 If I midst brimming tears
 Thy strand, Thy ruined strand could see.

Authorship

Aaron Schaffer (1893-1957)

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

Aaron Copland (1900-1990)

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