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Poems by Isaac Rosenberg

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POEMS BY ISAAC ROSENBERG<br />

THE NUN<br />

So thy soul's meekness shrinks,<br />

Too loth to show her face<br />

Why should she shun the world ?<br />

It is a holy place.<br />

Concealed to itself<br />

If the flower kept its scent,<br />

Of itself amorous,<br />

Less rich its ornament.<br />

Use—utmost in each kind<br />

Is beauty, truth in one,<br />

AVhile soul rays light to soul<br />

In one God-linked sun.<br />

WO

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