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Abinoah<br />
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:<br />
POEMS BY ISAAC ROSENBERG<br />
They'd make a bonfire of themselves to be<br />
Mouthed in the squares, broad in the public eye^J<br />
And whose backs break, whose lives are mauled,<br />
after<br />
It all falls Hat? His tender airs chill me<br />
As thoughts of sleep to a man tiptoed night-long<br />
Roped round his neck, for sleep means death to<br />
him.<br />
Oh, he is kind to us !<br />
Your safe teeth chatter when they hear a step<br />
He left them yours because his cunning way<br />
Would brag the wrong against his humane act<br />
By Pharaoh ; so gain more favour than he lost.<br />
Youxc;<br />
Hebrew<br />
Help him not then, and push your safety away :<br />
I for my part will be his backward eye,<br />
His hands when they are shut. Ah !<br />
!<br />
Like a bad smell from the soul of Moses dipt<br />
In the mire of lust he hangs round him ;<br />
And if his slit-like eyes could tear right out<br />
The pleasure Moses on his daughter had,<br />
She'd be as virgin as ere she came nestling<br />
Into that fierce unmanageable blood,<br />
Flying from her loathed father. O, that slave<br />
Has hammered from the anvil of her beauty<br />
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