Poems by Isaac Rosenberg

POEMS BY ISAAC ROSENBERG
Ineffable and useable, as near
Solidity as human life can be :
So grandly fashion these rude elements
Into some newer nature, a consciousness
Like naked light seizing the all-eyed soul,
Oppressing with its gorgeous tyranny
T
C ntil they take it thus— or die.
{While .speaking, he places his hand on the unsuspecting
Egyptian's head and gently, caressingly,
pulls his hair back until his chin is
above hisforehead, and holds him so till he is
suffocated. In the darkness ahead is seen the
glimmer ofjavelins and spears : it is Prince
Intra s cohorts come to arrest Moses.]
The End.
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