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POEMS BY ISAAC ROSENBERG<br />
gives chase in his cart. A storm conies on, the<br />
mules break down, and <strong>by</strong> the lightning be sees<br />
the Unicorn race <strong>by</strong> ; a naked black like an<br />
apparition rises up and easily lifts the wheels from<br />
the rut, and together thev ride to SauPs hut.<br />
There Lilith is in great consternation, having seen<br />
the Unicorn and knowing the legend of this race<br />
of men. The emotion^ of the black ithe Chief)<br />
are the really difficult part of my story. Afterwards<br />
a host of blacks on horses, like centaurs and<br />
buffaloes, come rushing up, the Unicorn in front.<br />
On every horse is clasped a woman. Lilith faints,<br />
Saul stabs himself, the Chief places Lilith on the<br />
Unicorn, and they all race away."<br />
In the late summer of this year (1917) <strong>Rosenberg</strong><br />
came to England on leave.<br />
To Gordon Bottomleij (data! September 21. 1917).<br />
"The greatest thing of my leave after seeing<br />
my mother was your letter which has just arrived.<br />
... I wish I could have seen you, but now I<br />
must go on and hope that things will turn out<br />
well, and some happy day will give me the chance<br />
of meeting you. ... I am afraid I can do no<br />
writing or reading ; I feel so restless here and un-<br />
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