Poems by Isaac Rosenberg

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EARLIER POEMS
FROM " NIGHT AND DAY "
I
IN THE WORKSHOP
Dim watery lights gleaming on gibbering faces,
Faces speechful, barren of soul and sordid,
Huddled and chewing a jest, lewd and gabbled
insidious
Laughter, born of its dung, flashes and floods like
sunlight,
Filling the room with a sense of a soul lethargic
and kindly,
Touches my soul with a pathos, a hint of a wide
desolation.
II
I saw the face of God to-day,
I heard the music of His smile,
And yet I was not far away,
And yet in Paradise the while.
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