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Poems by Isaac Rosenberg

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FRAGMENTS OF "THE UNICORN"<br />

Out of the lightning<br />

[She thinks to herself.']<br />

In a dizzying cloven wink<br />

This apparition stood up,<br />

Of stricken trunk or beast's spirit,<br />

Stirred <strong>by</strong> Saul's blasphemies ;<br />

So Saul's heart feared, aghast.<br />

But lo, he touched the mischance and life ran<br />

straight<br />

Was it the storm-spirit, storm's pilot,<br />

With all the heaving debris of Noah's sunken days<br />

Dragged on his loins<br />

Law's spirit wandering to us<br />

Through Nature's anarchy,<br />

Wandering towards us when the Titans yet were<br />

young ?<br />

Perhaps Moses and Buddha he met.<br />

[She speeds aloud.]<br />

The shadow of these pomegranate boughs<br />

Is sweet and restful ; sit and ease your feet. Eat<br />

of these figs<br />

You have journeyed long.<br />

All my life, housewife.<br />

Nubian<br />

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