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POEMS BY ISAAC ROSENBERG<br />
Man is a chimera's eremite,<br />
That lures him from the good kindness of days<br />
Which only ask his willingness.<br />
—<br />
There is a crazed shadow from no golden body<br />
That poisons at the core<br />
What smiles may stray :<br />
It mixes with all God-ancest railed essences,<br />
And twists the brain and heart.<br />
This shadow sits in the texture of Saul's being,<br />
Mauling your love and beauty with its lies:<br />
I hold a power like light to shrivel it<br />
There, in your throat's hollow—that green jade.<br />
[He snatches at it as she lets it fall. He grows<br />
white and troubled, and walks to where A.mak is<br />
playing, and sees minutely strewn pieces ofpaper.]<br />
[He mutters.']<br />
Lost—lost.<br />
The child has torn the scroll in it,<br />
And half is away. It cannot be spelt now.<br />
Lilith<br />
God, restore me his love.<br />
Ah! Well!<br />
[She rises."]<br />
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