POEMS BY ISAAC ROSENBERG SONGS IN CAPTIVITY _By R. H. Sauter_ BALLAD OF THE “ROYAL ANN” _By Crosbie Garston_ DOWN HERE THE HAWTHORN _By Thomas Moult_ LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN [Illustration: ISAAC ROSENBERG. ] POEMS BY ISAAC ROSENBERG SELECTED AND EDITED BY GORDON BOTTOMLEY WITH AN INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR BY LAURENCE BINYON [Illustration: 1922] LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN _Youth is still childhood: when we cast off every cloudy vesture, and our thoughts are clear and mature; when every act is a conscious thought, every thought an attempt to arrest feeling; our feelings strong and overwhelming, our sensitiveness awakened by insignificant things in life; when the skies race tumultuously with our blood, and the earth shines and laughs; when our blood hangs suspended at the rustling of a gown. Our vanity loves to subdue—battle, aggressive. How we despise those older and duller—we want life, newness, excitement._ (_Circa 1916._) CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR 1 †MOSES: A PLAY 51 POEMS FROM CAMP AND TRENCH: DAUGHTERS OF WAR 81 ON RECEIVING THE FIRST NEWS OF THE WAR 84 †SPRING, 1916 86 THE TROOP SHIP 87 †MARCHING 88 BREAK OF DAY IN THE TRENCHES 89 KILLED IN ACTION 91 RETURNING, WE HEAR THE LARKS 92 THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM BY THE BABYLONIAN HORDES 93 THE BURNING OF THE TEMPLE 95 HOME-THOUGHTS FROM FRANCE 96 THE IMMORTALS 97 LOUSE HUNTING 98 GIRL TO SOLDIER ON LEAVE 100 SOLDIER: TWENTIETH CENTURY 102 THE JEW 103 THE DYING SOLDIER 104 DEAD MAN’S DUMP 105 IN WAR 109 §THE DEAD HEROES 112