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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nIn the early 1910s, Frederick Lehman was originally a pastor, but unfortunate circumstances caused him to lose the business he ran on the side. Before he knew it, Lehman found himself packing oranges and lemons in a California packing house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Despite his change in situation, Lehman never lost his faith in God, and even began to write a poem inspired by a recent sermon he\u2019d heard. After writing two stanzas and a chorus, Lehman had hopes of turning the poem into a song. However, songs at that time usually needed three or more stanzas to be considered complete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While Lehman searched for the perfect words for the third stanza, he began to compose the tune for his poem. At last, Lehman remembered a poem he\u2019d read on an old notecard he used as a bookmark. Lehman dug out the notecard, only to discover that the words fit perfectly with his own poem\u2026 he had found his third stanza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Once question, however, remains\u2026 what is the origin of the poem on the notecard? To answer this, we go back two hundred years before Lehman\u2019s time to a mental institution. After an unfortunate patient passed on, the attendants came to clean to room for another patient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There, scribbled on the wall, they found the words to a poem\u2014the same poem Lehman would later find on the notecard. The patient must have recalled the poem in a moment of sanity, and written it on the wall so they would remember it later. One of the attendants wrote down the poem before painting over it, and those words traveled through history until they finally found their way onto Lehman\u2019s notecard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But this is not the end of the story\u2026 the original writer of this mysterious poem actually lived many, many years before this. After many inquiries about the third stanza of Lehman\u2019s song, historians finally found the writer. He was a Jewish poet named Meir Ben Isaac Nehorai, who penned the words to this poem in 1050 A.D.<\/p>\n\n\n\n