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Poems by Isaac Rosenberg

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POEMS BY ISAAC ROSENBERG<br />

[Motions Abinoah to desist, but not in time to prevent<br />

the old man fainting into the hands of<br />

the Young Hebrew.]<br />

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Harper, are you envious of the old fool ?<br />

Go ! Hug the rat who stole your last crumbs,<br />

And gnawed the hole in your life which made<br />

time wonder<br />

"Who it was saved labour for him the next score of<br />

years.<br />

We allowed them life for their labour— they<br />

haggled.<br />

Food they must have, and (god of laughter!) even<br />

ease<br />

But mud and lice and Jews are very busy<br />

Breeding plagues in ease.<br />

\_Thc Minstrel pulls his beard and robe off.~]<br />

Abinoah<br />

Moses<br />

Moses<br />

You drunken rascal<br />

Abinoah<br />

A drunken rascal ! Isis, hear the Prince<br />

Drunken with duty, and he calls me rascal.<br />

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