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POEMS BY ISAAC ROSENBERG<br />
get it, please don't read it, because it's the merest<br />
sketch and the best is yet to come.<br />
If I am able<br />
to carry on with it, 1*11 send you it in a more<br />
presentable fashion. I believe I have a good idea<br />
at bottom. It's a kind of ' Rape of the Sabine<br />
Women ' idea : some strange race of wanderers<br />
have settled in some wild<br />
place and are perishing<br />
out for lack of women. The prince of these<br />
explores some country near where the women are<br />
most fair.<br />
But the natives will not hear of foreign<br />
marriages ; and he plots another Rape of the<br />
Sabines, but is trapped in the act."<br />
To Edward Marsh (1917).<br />
" I am now fearfully rushed, but find energy<br />
enough to scribble this in the minute I plunder<br />
from my work. I believe I can see the obscurities<br />
in the 'Daughters, 1<br />
but hardly hope to clear them<br />
up in France. The first part, the picture of the<br />
Daughters dancing and calling to the spirits of<br />
the slain before their last ones have ceased among<br />
the boughs of the tree of life, I must still work<br />
on. In that part obscure the description of the<br />
voice of the Daughter I have not made clear, I see<br />
I have tried to suggest the wonderful sound of her<br />
voice, spiritual and voluptuous at the same time-<br />
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