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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 / -or breaking his legs behind runaway horses -- with a Carnival quirk / every Shrove Tuesday / Of his riches / a Patriarch / erected a synagogue
-for the people / His son / looked upon Lea of the people / she sat in Synagogue / -her hair / long as the Talmud / -her tamarind eyes --