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Poems by Isaac Rosenberg

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MOSES<br />

Scene II. : Evening before Thebes. The Pyramids<br />

are being built. Swarms of Hebrews<br />

labouring. Priests and Taskmasters. Two<br />

Hebrews are furtively talking. Koelue<br />

passes <strong>by</strong> singing.<br />

Koelue<br />

The vague viols of evening-<br />

Call all the flower clans<br />

To some a<strong>by</strong>smal swinging<br />

And tumult of deep trance ;<br />

He may hear, flower of my singing,<br />

And come hither winging.<br />

Old Hebrew<br />

[Gazing after her in a muffled frenzy.^<br />

Hateful harlot !<br />

Boils cover your small cruel face.<br />

O, fine champion Moses : O, so good to us :<br />

O, grand begetter on her of a whip and a torturer,<br />

Her father, born to us since you kissed her.<br />

Our champion, O so good to us<br />

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