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Poems by Isaac Rosenberg

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\_He changes his tone to a winning softness.<br />

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POEMS BY ISAAC ROSENBERG<br />

Led you to me in whom she was thoroughly lost.<br />

Pah, you sicken me !<br />

Abinoah<br />

Prince Imra is Pharaoh's choice now, and Koelue's.<br />

Silence, you beast<br />

Moses<br />

I hate these family quarrels :<br />

it is so<br />

Like fratricide. I am a rebel, well ?<br />

Soft !<br />

You are not, and we are knit so close<br />

It would be shame for a son to be so honoured<br />

And the father still unknown : come, Koelue's (so<br />

my) father,<br />

I'll tell my plans —<br />

you'll beg to be rebel then.<br />

Look round on the night<br />

Old as the first, bleak, even her wish is done ;<br />

She has never seen, though dreamt perhaps of<br />

the sun,<br />

Yet only dawn divides ;<br />

could a miracle<br />

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