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POEMS BY ISAAC ROSENBERG<br />
An Aged Minstrel<br />
[Swigs frorn a distance^<br />
Taut is the air and tied the trees,<br />
The leaves lie as on a hand ;<br />
God's unthinkable imagination<br />
Invents new tortures for nature.<br />
And when the air is soft and the leaves<br />
Feel free and push and tremble,<br />
Will they not remember and say<br />
How wonderful to have lived ?<br />
[The Old Hebrew is agitated and murmurs^]<br />
Messiah, Messiah. . . . That voice . . .<br />
O, he has beaten my sight out. ... I see<br />
Like a rain about a devouring fire. . . .<br />
[The Minstrel sings.']<br />
Ye who best God awhile, O hear :<br />
your wealth<br />
Is but His cunning to see to make death more<br />
hard,<br />
Your iron sinews take more pain in breaking<br />
And he has made the market for your beauty<br />
Too poor to buy although you die to sell.<br />
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