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to<br />
—<br />
POEMS BY ISAAC ROSENBERG<br />
I should think you are right mostly, and 1 may<br />
yet work away your chief objections. You are<br />
quite right in the way you read my poems, but I<br />
thought I could use the ' July Ghost ' mean the<br />
summer, and also an ambassador of the summer,<br />
without interfering with the sense. The<br />
' shell of<br />
thought' is man ;<br />
you realize a shell has an opening,<br />
the ' ardours '<br />
; the sense of heat forms a web ; this<br />
signifies a sense of summer : the web again becomes<br />
another metaphor, a July Ghost. But, of course, I<br />
mean it for summer right through. I think your<br />
suggestion of taking out ' woven ' is very good. 11<br />
The next letter is from Cape Town.<br />
To Edward Marsh (1914).<br />
" I should like you to do me a favour if it's not<br />
putting you to too much bother. I am in an<br />
infernal city <strong>by</strong> the sea. This city has men in it<br />
and these men have souls in them—or at least<br />
have the passages to souls. Though they are<br />
millions of years behind time, they have yet reached<br />
the stage of evolution that knows ears and eyes.<br />
But these passages are dreadfully clogged up : gold<br />
dust, diamond dust, stocks and shares, and Heaven<br />
knows what other flinty muck. Well, I've made up
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