Poems by Isaac Rosenberg

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Forget
MOSES
Scene I. : Outside a college in Thebes. Egyptian
students pass by.
Moses alone in meditation.
[Enter Messenger.]
Messenge"r
[Handing papyrus.']
Pharaoh's desires.
Moses
[Reads.'] To our beloved son, greeting. Add
to our thoughts of you, if possible to add, but a
little, and you are more than old heroes—not to
bemean your genius, who might cry " Was that
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all We pile barriers everywhere : we give you
idiots for tools, tree stumps for swords, skin sacks
for souls. The sixteenth pyramid remains to be
built : we give you the last draft of slaves.
Move !
not the edict. Pharaoh.
Moses
[To Messenger.] What is the edict ?
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