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Page 212. 'Di Shtal' Sections LAMED and LAMED-ALEF — the lullaby-prayer to God: Section LAMED (30): A tender prayer/lullaby: 'Lay us together, take us in, lift us up to the tent of your rest.' The inversion: 'The children sleep, the father — not. The children sleep, the father guards. The children — we, the father — you.' The refugees are children; God is the father who must watch over them. 'Just as a child undresses from a shirt, so have we already come out of the body.' They feel already departed from their flesh. 'Forgive the body, that still bleeds somewhere, and take us up to the tent of your rest.' A prayer for the wounded and dying. Section LAMED-ALEF (31): 'Little birds are already settled with you' — the dead have preceded them. 'They will not rise up anymore, the first messengers to you.' Those killed in the pogrom were the first messengers to heaven. 'Forest, our forest, open yourself wide' — calling on nature to shelter them.
ל
לייג אונדז צונויף,
און נעם אונדז צו
און הייב אונדז אַרויף
צום געצעלט פֿון דײַן רו.
די קינדער שלאָפֿן,
דער טאַטע — ניט,
די קינדער שלאָפֿן,
דער טאַטע היט.
די קינדער — מיר,
דער טאַטע — דו;
אַ נעם אונדז צו דיר
אין געצעלט פֿון דײַן רו.
אַזוי ווי אַ קינד
פֿון העמד טוט זיך אויס,
אַזוי זײַנען מיר
פֿון גוף שוין אַרויס.
זײַ מוחל דעם גוף,
וואָס בלוטיקט נאָך וואו,
און נעם אונדז אַרויף
צום געצעלט פֿון דײַן רו.
לא
עוף־עלעך זײַנען באַזעצט שוין מיט דיר,
מיט דיר;
זיי וועלן נישט אויפֿשטיין שוין מער
די שליחים די ערשטע צו דיר,
צו דיר.
וואַלד, אונדזער וואַלד,
עפֿן זיך פֿונאַנדער:
LAMED
Leyg undz tsunoyf,
un nem undz tsu
un heyb undz aroyf
tsum getselt fun dayn ru.
Di kinder shlofn,
der tate — nit,
di kinder shlofn,
der tate hit.
Di kinder — mir,
der tate — du;
a nem undz tsu dir
in getselt fun dayn ru.
Azoy vi a kind
fun hemd tut zikh oys,
azoy zaynen mir
fun guf shoyn aroys.
Zay moykhl dem guf,
vos blutikt nokh vu,
un nem undz aroyf
tsum getselt fun dayn ru.
LAMED-ALEF
Oyf-elekh zaynen bazetzt shoyn mit dir,
mit dir;
zey veln nisht oyfshteyn shoyn mer
di shlikhim di ershte tsu dir,
tsu dir.
Vald, undzer vald,
efn zikh funander:
LAMED
Lay us together,
and take us in
and lift us up
to the tent of your rest.
The children sleep,
the father — not,
the children sleep,
the father guards.
The children — we,
the father — you;
oh take us to you
into the tent of your rest.
Just as a child
undresses from a shirt,
so have we
already come out of the body.
Forgive the body,
that still bleeds somewhere,
and take us up
to the tent of your rest.
LAMED-ALEF
Little birds are already settled with you,
with you;
they will not rise up anymore
the first messengers to you,
to you.
Forest, our forest,
open yourself wide:
Page 212. 'Di Shtal' Sections LAMED and LAMED-ALEF — the lullaby-prayer to God: Section LAMED (30): A tender prayer/lullaby: 'Lay us together, take us in, lift us up to the tent of your rest.' The inversion: 'The children sleep, the father — not. The children sleep, the father guards. The children — we, the father — you.' The refugees are children; God is the father who must watch over them. 'Just as a child undresses from a shirt, so have we already come out of the body.' They feel already departed from their flesh. 'Forgive the body, that still bleeds somewhere, and take us up to the tent of your rest.' A prayer for the wounded and dying. Section LAMED-ALEF (31): 'Little birds are already settled with you' — the dead have preceded them. 'They will not rise up anymore, the first messengers to you.' Those killed in the pogrom were the first messengers to heaven. 'Forest, our forest, open yourself wide' — calling on nature to shelter them.
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