Exodus + 

Exodus lay under an oak-tree + 

Bordering on Buda Pest + 

he had lain + 

him down + 

to over-night + 

under the lofty rain + 

of starlight + 

having leapt from the womb + 

eighteen years ago + 

and grown + 

neglected + 

along the shores of the Danube + 

on the Danube in the Danube + 

вАФor breaking his legs behind runaway horsesвБ†вАФ + 

with a Carnival quirk + 

every Shrove Tuesday + 

Of his riches + 

a Patriarch + 

erected a synagogue + 

вАФ + 

вАФfor the people + 

His son + 

looked upon Lea + 

вАФ + 

вАФ + 

of the people + 

she sat in Synagogue + 

вАФher hair + 

long as the Talmud + 

вАФher tamarind eyesвБ†вАФ + 

вАФ + 

and disinherited + 

begat this Exodus + 

Imperial Austria taught the child + 

the German + 

secret patriotism + 

the Magyar tongue + 

the father + 

stuffed him with biblical Hebrew and the + 

seeds of science + 

exhorting him + 

to vindicate + 

his forefatherвАЩs ambitions + 

The child + 

flowered precociously + 

fever + 

smote the father + 

the widowed mother + 

took to her bosom + 

a spouse + 

of her own sphere + 

and hired + 

Exodus in apprenticeship + 

to such + 

as garrulously inarticulate + 

ignore + 

the cosmic cultures + 

Sinister foster-parents + 

who lashed the boy + 

to that paralysis of + 

the spiritual apparatus + 

common to + 

the poor + 

The arid gravid + 

intellect + 

of jewish ancestors + 

the senile juvenile + 

calculating prodigies of Jehovah + 

вАФCrushed by the Occident ox + 

they scraped + 

the gold gold golden + 

muck from off its hoofsвБ†вАФ + 

moves Exodus + 

to emmigrate + 

coveting the alien + 

asylum + 

of voluntary military + 

service + 

paradise + 

of the pound-stirling + 

where the domestic Jew + 

in lieu + 

of knouts + 

is lashed with tongues + 

The cannibal God + 

shutters his lids of night + 

on the dayвАЩs gluttony + 

the partially + 

devoured humanity + 

warms its unblessed beds + 

with bare prostrations + 

An insect + 

from an herb + 

errs on the + 

man-mountain + 

imparts + 

its infinitesimal tactile stimulus + 

to the epiderm + 

to the spirit + 

of Exodus + 

stirring + 

the anaesthetised load + 

of racial instinct frustrated + 

impulse + 

infantile impacts with unreason + 

on his unconscious + 

Blinking his eyesвБ†вАФ + 

вАФ + 

вАФ + 

at sunrise + 

Exodus + 

lumbar-aching + 

sleep logged + 

turns his ear + 

to the grit earth + 

and hears + 

the boom of cardiac cataracts + 

thumping the turf + 

with his young pulse + 

He is undone! + 

How should he know + 

he has a heart + 

The Danube + 

gives no instruction in anatomyвБ†вАФ + 

the primary + 

throb of the animate + 

a beating mystery + 

pounds on his ignorance + 

in seeming + 

death dealingвБ†вАФ + 

The frightened fatalist + 

clenches his eyes + 

for the involuntary sacrifice + 

stark + 

to the sun-zumm dirges of + 

a bee + 

he lays him out + 

for his heart-beats to slay him + 

It is not accomplished + 

the burning track + 

of lengthening sun shafts + 

spur + 

This lying-in-state of a virility + 

to rise + 

and in his surprised + 

protracted viability + 

shoulder his pack + 

Exodus + 

whose initiations + 

in arrogance + 

through brief + 

stimulation of his intellect + 

in servitude + 

through early + 

ill-usage + 

etch involute + 

inhibitions + 

upon his sensibility + 

sharpened and blunted + 

he + 

вАФbound for his unformulate + 

conception of lifeвБ†вАФ + 

makes for the harbour + 

and the + 

dogged officer of Destiny + 

kept Exodus + 

and that which he begat + 

moving along + 

The highest paid + 

tailorвАЩs + 

cutter in the вАЬCityвАЭ + 

Exodus + 

Lord Israel + 

nicknamed + 

from his consummate bearing + 

his coaly eye + 

challenging + 

the unrevealed universe + 

speaking fluently + 

вАЬbusiness-EnglishвАЭ + 

to the sartorial world + 

jibbering + 

stock exchange quotations + 

and conundrums of finance + 

to which + 

unlettered immigrants are instantly + 

initiate + 

Those foreigners + 

before whom + 

the soul + 

of the new Motherland + 

stands nakedly incognito + 

in so many ciphers + 

In the boarding-house + 

the lady with + 

the locket + 

вАЬYou will excuse meвБ†вАФ + 

вАФ + 

Our Dear Queen + 

picks chicken bones in + 

her fingersвАЭ + 

Exodus + 

at leisure + 

painting + 

knowing not why + 

sunflowers turned sunwards + 

Sundays + 

when + 

England closed + 

the eyes of every + 

commercial enterprise + 

but the church + 

and spewed + 

her silent servants + 

out of her areas + 

in their bi-weekly вАЬbestвАЭ + 

to + 

вАЬOw get along with youвАЭ + 

their lurching lovers + 

along the rails of parks + 

The high-striped + 

soldiers of the swagger-stick + 

tempting the wilder flowers of womanhood + 

to lick-be-quick ice cream + 

outside the barracks + 

This jovian hebrew вАЬall dressed up + 

and nowhere to goвАЭ + 

stands like a larch + 

upon the corners of incarcerate streets + 

deploring the anomalous legs + 

of ZionвАЩs sons + 

with the subconscious + 

irritant of superiority + 

left in an aristocacy + 

out of currency + 

paces + 

the cancellated desert of the metropolis + 

with the instinctive urge + 

of loneliness + 

to get to вАЬthe heart of somethingвАЭ + 

The heart of England + 

sporting its oak + 

on the rude ratepayer + 

Hymns + 

ancient and modern + 

belabour + 

crippled cottage-grands + 

in parlour fronts + 

A thrush + 

shatters its song upon the spurious shade + 

of a barred bird-fancierвАЩs + 

The dumb philosophies + 

of the wondering jew + 

fall into rhythm + 

with + 

long unlistened-to + 

hebrew chants + 

A wave + 

вАЬout of tideвАЭ + 

with the surrounding + 

ocean + 

he breaks + 

insensitized + 

non-participance + 

upon himself + 

(The) unperceived + 

conqueror + 

of a new world + 

in terms of cutting and drafting + 

Exodus + 

lifts his head + 

over the alien crowds + 

under the alien clouds + 

proudly + 

as memory + 

evokes + 

the panic-stricken + 

discoverer of his own heart + 

coming + 

barefoot + 

to the Synagogue + 

erected by his grandfather + 

вАФ + 

вАФ + 

вАФ + 

The Rabbi said вАЬYour grandfather + 

was a great and a + 

just man + 

we reap what he has sown + 

вАФ + 

honoured be his memory + 

so hereвАЩs + 

your fare + 

third class + 

May the God of Israel + 

bless thee among the GentilesвАЭ + 

And the God of the Gentiles + 

blessed him among Israel + 

he had several + 

shares in the South Eastern + 

Railway + 

and other + 

securities + 

Suddenly + 

he remembers + 

how his mother + 

told him + 

he was a seven monthвАЩs child + 

вАФthing of etherial circulationвБ†вАФ + 

wrapped in wadding + 

somewhat + 

green-seeming + 

as an untimely apple + 

And Exodus + 

feels cold + 

with sympathy + 

for that cold thing + 

that was himself + 

вАФ + 

вАФ + 

вАФ + 

The London dusk + 

wraps up the aborted entity + 

heeding SolomonвАЩs admonishing + 

spends + 

circumcised + 

circumspect + 

his evenings + 

doing lightning calculations + 

for his high pleasure + 

Painting + 

вАФ + 

вАФ + 

вАФ + 

feeling his pulse + 

вАФ + 

вАФ + 

вАФ + 

Incorporeal express trains + 

from opposite directions + 

of unequal + 

lengths and velocities + 

flash + 

through his abstract eye + 

determines instantly + 

the time + 

to a decimal + 

fraction of a second + 

they take + 

to pass each other + 

Under his ivory hands + 

his sunflowers sunwards + 

glow + 

confuse + 

with itinerant + 

Judaic eyes + 

peering + 

through narrow-slim + 

entrance-arches + 

The terrestrial trees + 

shades + 

virgin bosoms and blossoms + 

in course of his acclimatization + 

a hedge-rose + 

вАФ + 

вАФ + 

вАФ + 

вАФ + 

He paints + 

He feels his pulse + 

The spiritual + 

tentacles of vanity + 

that each + 

puts out towards + 

the culture + 

of his epoch + 

knowing not how to find + 

and finding not + 

contact + 

he has repealed + 

to fumble among his guts + 

The only + 

personal reality + 

he brought from Hungary + 

he takes + 

to Harley street + 

where medicine + 

sits + 

the only + 

social science + 

applied to the outsider + 

The parasite + 

attaches to the English Rose + 

вАФ + 

вАФ + 

вАФ + 

вАФ + 

вАФ + 

at a guinea a visit + 

вАФ + 

becomes + 

more tangible to himself + 

the exile + 

mechanism + 

he learns + 

is built + 

to the same osseous structure + 

shares + 

identical phenomena + 

with those + 

populating the Island + 

that segregated + 

from his apprehension + 

moves + 

a universe + 

of unceasing + 

energies + 

for the biological + 

explorerвАЩs introspection + 

His body + 

becomes the target of his speculation + 

His brain + 

ravenous for informative food + 

spins + 

cobwebs + 

on the only available + 

branching out of facts + 

clings + 

to the visceral + 

items + 

he has heard mentioned + 

until they ache + 

under mesmeric concentration + 

Exodus + 

discovers his nerves + 

as once + 

Mankind + 

in pathological mysticism + 

believed + 

itself + 

to have discovered + 

its soul + 

DavidвАЩs daughterвАЩs doweries + 

and olive-eyes + 

virgins capitalized + 

to tantalize! + 

JehovahвАЩs tailor + 

sets up in business for himself + 

however + 

Some queer + 

marital independence on the English air + 

keeping him bachelor + 

While through + 

stock quotations + 

and Latin prescriptions + 

for physic + 

filters the lyric + 

aroma of the rose + 

Exodus knows + 

no longer father + 

or brother + 

or the God of the Jews, + 

it is his to choose + 

finance or + 

romance of the rose + 