Random Zmirot Confusion

[debka_notion]

At lunch today we actually sang through all of Tzama Nafshi (a 12ish stanza song with chorus, the only tune for which I know is very slow)- and in the songbook I was using (the Brandeis Shiron), there was a mysterious extra verse before the last verse that didn't fit with the acrostic set up (the first letter of each stanza, put together forms an acrostic of the name of the author). It was about sacrificial goats- it seemed like a reference to the Yom Kippur (add quotation marks around that if you're a biblical scholar and/or feel like being one right now) ritual involving the scapegoat. But where it came from or why the other texts didn't include it is a mystery. Any insight?

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[shorr.livejournal.com]

No idea, but I love the song.
-AzS