title: Devotional Poetry
author: Magda Herzberger
description: These two books by Magda Herzberger, the <i>Second Edition of The Waltz of the Shadows</i> and <i>Devotional Poetry</i> are very special books of poetry and prayers by a very special person. Magda Herzberger is also the author of <i>Survival</i>,(0976582112) considered by some experts to be the finest personal memoir of the Holocaust ever written. In <i>Devotional Poetry</i> she shares some of the prayers that she wrote in response to her experiences at the hands of the Nazis. While in <i>Second Edition of The Waltz of the Shadows</i> she also shares her fears and her depression. Her strength, courage, and faith come through clearly in these books, as well as in her other books dealing with this terrible time.
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  # Massimilla Doni
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Honore de Balzac
  
  
  ##### Translated by Clara Bell and James Waring
  
  
  
  
  
  
      
  
  
  DEDICATION
  
  
  
  
  
  To Jacques Strunz.
  
  
  
  
  
  MY DEAR STRUNZ:--I should be ungrateful if I did not set your name
  
  
  at the head of one of the two tales I could never have written but
  
  
  for your patient kindness and care. Accept this as my grateful
  
  
  acknowledgment of the readiness with which you tried--perhaps not
  
  
  very successfully--to initiate me into the mysteries of musical
  
  
  knowledge. You have at least taught me what difficulties and what
  
  
  labor genius must bury in those poems which procure us
  
  
  transcendental pleasures. You have also afforded me the
  
  
  satisfaction of laughing more than once at the expense of a self-
  
  
  styled connoisseur.
  
  
  
  
  
  Some have taxed me with ignorance, not knowing that I have taken
  
  
  counsel of one of our best musical critics, and had the benefit of
  
  
  your conscientious help. I have, perhaps, be