“The sign work of the Orient it runneth up and down;
The Talmud stalks from right to left, a rabbi in a gown;”

— Nathalia Crane

"The Symbols"
The Janitor's Boy And Other Poems (1924)
Context: p>The sign work of the Orient it runneth up and down;
The Talmud stalks from right to left, a rabbi in a gown;The Roman rolls from left to right from Maytime unto May;
But the gods shake up their symbols in an absent-minded way.Their language runs to circles like the language of the eyes,
Emphasised by strange dilations with little panting sighs.</p

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“The Roman rolls from left to right from Maytime unto May;
But the gods shake up their symbols in an absent-minded way.”

Nathalia Crane (1913–1998) American writer

“The sign work of the Orient it runneth up and down;The Talmud stalks from right to left, a rabbi in a gown;”

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“The sign work of the Orient it runneth up and down;
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