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Poems by Isaac Rosenberg

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INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR<br />

you know. The bother is that we will be on our<br />

ball-firing then, and also this before-mentioned<br />

affair may mess it up. This ball-firing implies we<br />

will be ready '— for the front. I have been working<br />

on Moses ' in my mind, I mean—and it was<br />

through my absent-mindedness while full of that<br />

that I forgot certain orders, and am now undergoing<br />

a rotten and unjust punishment. Fm working<br />

a curious plot into it, and of course, as I can't<br />

work here, I jot little scraps down and will piece<br />

it together the first chance I get."<br />

The remaining letters are all from France.<br />

To Miss Seaton (1916).<br />

" We made straight for the trenches, but we've<br />

had vile weather, and I've been wet through for<br />

four days and nights. I lost all my socks and<br />

things before I left England, and hadn't the chance<br />

to make it up again, so I've been in trouble,<br />

particularly with bad heels ;<br />

you can't have the<br />

slightest conception of what such an apparently<br />

trivial thing means. We've had shells bursting<br />

two yards off, bullets whizzing all over the show,<br />

but all you are aware of is the agony of your<br />

heels. ... I had a letter from R. C. Trevelyan,<br />

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