The cantos of ezra pound [from The Cantos of Ezra Pound (1972)]
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19552 Patience, I will come to the Commissioner of the Salt Works 19553 in due course. 19554 Est deus in nobis. and 19555 They still offer sacrifice to that sea-gull 19556 est deus in nobis 19557 19558 She being of Cadmus line, 19559 the snow's lace is spread there like sea foam 19560 But the lot of 'em, Yeats, Possum and Wyndham 19561 had no ground beneath 'em. 19562 [Image] 19563 Orage had. 19564 Per ragione vale 19565 Black shawls for Demeter. 19566 "Eleven literates" wrote Senator Cutting, [Page 686] 19567 "and, I suppose, Dwight L. Morrow". 19568 Black shawls for Demeter. 19569 The cat talks------with a greek inflection, 19570 Mohammed in sympathy: "is part of religion" 19571 Sister to Phoebus; 19572 And some with the tone of bird talk 19573 "Noi altri borghesi 19574 could not speak efficiently to the crowd 19575 in piazza," 19576 said the Consigliere, "we thought we could control Mussolini." 19577 Uncle William two months on ten lines of Ronsard 19578 But the salt works ... 19579 19580 ... 19581 Patience, ich bin am Zuge ... 19582
19583 an awareness 19584 Until in Shensi, Ouang, the Commissioner Iu-p'uh 19585 volgar' eloquio [Image] 19586 The King's job, vast as the swan-flight: 19587 thought built on Sagetrieb: 19588 civil, the soldier's 19589 suns rise, the sun goes into shadow 19590 Hsuan, in the first tone [Image] proclaim 19591 a filiality that binds things together. 19592 First the pen yeh [Image] [Page 687] 19593 then [Image] 19594 and to philosophise in old age (Ari's ) 19595 "and that Buddha abandoned such splendours, 19596 is it likely!" said Yong Tching ... 19597 "Who has seen Taoist priests fly up in broad daylight? 19598 They destroy the 5 human relations. 19599 mules saddled with trappings, 19600 deeper in debt every day 19601 and next they are selling their farmsteads. 19602 [Image] 19603 And as for these Bhud-foés, 19604 they provide no mental means for 19605 Running an empire, nor do taoists 19606 with their internal and external pills 19607 ---is it external? the gold pill?--- 19608 to preserve them from physical death? 19609 and as for those who deform thought with iambics... 19610 ten billion wordings 19611 and destroy the five human relations, 19612 Is the Bhud likely to return for these harridans? 19613 having had his palace with court yards 19614 and a dragon verandah, plus a feng-ko 19615 presumably furnished with phoenix 19616 and he ch'i'd 'em or shed 'em 19617 [Image] [Page 688] 19618 Will you now bait him with nunneries?" 19619 [Image] 19620 that sign is a horse and mouth. 19621 Sitting in heaven he needs you to build him a roof? 19622 "To unscrew 19623 (Procopius and old Peabody) the inscrutable." 19624 Antoninus and Leo got down the percentage 19625 and, as Stock says, "the historians missed it". 19626 Does god need a clay model? gilded? 19627 hua4 t'ou,2 these tongue words! 19628 The maker of words ascending, 19629 whiteness of bones beneath. 19630 The celestial wants your small change? 19631 or bears grudge when he does not get it, 19632 (Cf/ Gemisto) a hsiao jên? [Image] 19633 And the language in all their "classics" 19634 fan1 hua4 19635 If you don't swallow their buncombe 19636 you won't have to drive 'em out.
19639 on the edict of K'ang -hsi 19640 in volgar' eloquio taking the sense down to the people. 19641 "Who display no constructive imagination; [Page 689] 19642 who use no connection, grits in the mortar, 19643 impediments. 19644 You, I mean you should know why, 19645 and start new after an inadvertence 19646 [Image] i4hên1 [Image] that is the root of it 19647 li3-4 [Image] on the inside 19648 yüan2 [Image] the spring 19649 small ... white ... under cover. 19650 and that the equilibrium 19651 [Image] t'ai4 19652 [Image] p'ing2 19653 of the Empire grips the earth in good manners 19654 Earth and water dye the wind in your valley 19655 tso feng [Image] tso feng suh 19656 that his feelings have the colour of nature 19657 en1 [Image] ch'ing2 [Image] 19658 And as Ford said: get a dictionary 19659 and learn the meaning of words. 19660 "De tribus...", and a book on falcons, from Federico 19661 in Sicily. "Aulentissima" sang Alcamo 19662 "ver l'estate" 19663 More solid than pearls or than cassia [Page 690] 19664 i4 [Image] 19665 ch'i4 [Image] 19666 From Kati to Kang Hi [Image] 19667 two ½s of a seal [Image] 19668 "De libro Chi-king", wrote his father: "Ostendit, incitatque, 19669 that you may reap in the sunlight 19670 A soul, said Plotinus, the body inside it. 19671 "By Hilaritas", said Gemisto, "by hilaritas: gods; 19672 and by speed in communication. 19673 Anselm cut some of the cackle, and relapsed for sake of 19674 tranquillity. 19675 Thus the gods appointed john barleycorn Je tzu, 19676 And Byzance lasted longer than Manchu 19677 because of an (%) interest-rate. 19678 Thought is built out of Sagetrieb, 19679 and our debt here is to Baller 19680 and to volgar'eloquio. 19681 Despite Mathews this Wang was a stylist. 19682 Uen-li will not help you talk to them, 19683 Iong-ching republished the edict 19684 But the salt-commisioner took it down to the people 19685 who, in Baller's view, speak in quotations; 19686 think in quotations: 19687 "Don't send someone else to pay it." 19688 Delcroix was for repetition. 19689 Baller thought one needed religion. [Page 691] 19690 Without 2muan 1bpo ... but I anticipate. 19691 There is no substitute for a lifetime. 19692 The meaning of the Emperor, 19693 ten thousand years heart's-tone-think-say, 19694 he had reigned for 61 years
19702 meaning of 19703 cheng [Image]
19707 Filial piety is very inclusive: it does not include 19708 Family squabbles over
19711 II. Ten thousand years say men have clans and descendents. 19712 III. There are districts. Avoid litigation.
19714 Imperial paradigm was by ploughing. 19715 V. and then waste not, 19716 Nor scrape iron off the point of a needle. 19717 VI. Ten thousand years: to improve the habits of scholars 19718 "as an ox with trappings" 19719 or as a mule with a fancy saddle; 19720 That the books you read shall be 19721 cheng 19722 king 19723 ut supra 19724 And your pals fit to read 'em. 19725 Sixteen bitched by an (%) interest rate 19726 Byzantium rather more durable. 19727 "from rib to cheek whose palate cost so dear" 19728 Miss Mitford (or one-ov'um) thought this was "gothic" 19729 Paradiso, XIV: this light does not dis-unify. 19730 VII. No need of contraptions. 19731 VIII. State the laws in clear language. 19732 IX. Iu-an tied the stray cow and fed it. 19733 The Xth clause is for
19737 But establish it. What do children know about evil? 19738 And XVth. Not a fixed charge. 19739 This is from Mang Tzu [Image] 19740 XVI. Yield not to anger.
19742 (In 1670 Kang Hsi) whereto Iong Ching: 19743 "That you should hear it unblurred" [Image]
19746 long Ching, Canto 61 19747 of the light of [Image] hsien 19748 [Image] ming, 19749 by the silk cords of the sunlight, 19750 Chords of the sunlight (Pitagora) 19751 non si disuna (xiii) 19752 Splendor 19753 2nd year 19754 2nd month 19755 2nd day as to the Sheng [Image] 19756 The Edict. [Image] 19757 "Each year in the Elder Spring, that is the first month of it, 19758 The herald shall invite your compliance. 19759 There are six rites for the festival 19760 and that all should converge 19761 And not to lose life for bad temper.
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19762 Till the blue grass turn yellow 19763 and the yellow leaves float in air 19764 And Iong Cheng (Canto 61) 19765 of the line of Kang Hi 19766 by the silk cords of the sunlight 19767 non disunia, 19768 2nd year 19769 2nd month 19770 2nd day 19771 SHENG U, the Edict 19772 Each year in the elder spring, that is the first month 19773 of the spring time, 19774 The herald shall incite yr/ compliance 19775 There are six rites for festival 19776 and 7 instructions 19777 that all converge as the root tun1 pen3 19778 the root veneration (from Mohamed no popery) 19779 To discriminate things 19780 shih2-5 solid 19781 mu2 a pattern 19782 fa1 laws 19783 kung1 public 19784 szu1 private 19785 great and small 19786 (That Odysseus' old ma missed his conversation) 19787 To see the light pour, 19788 that is, toward sinceritas
19790 KOINE ENNOIA 19791 all astute men can see it encircling. 19792 Chou saw it, my SIRE also, 19793 With splendour, 19794 Catholicity, 19795 Woven in order, 19796 as on cords in the loom 19797 cognome, indirizzo (pien1 hu4 19798 sincerity, simplicity, red: South, and naïveté 19799 meng2, the people, the many, the menée, 19800 the perishing. 19801 Sage men have plans, 19802 simplicity a thousand generation, no man can change. 19803 The Sage Emperor's heart is our heart, 19804 His government is our government 19805 yao2high, hsiao3dawn 19806 The Venerated Emperor 19807 watched things grow with affection, 19808 His thought was not dry on a shelf 19809 Not exhaustible, on sale in a (kuei4) shop. 19810 That job was the swan's flight (hung2 yeh4-5) 19811 To trace out and to bind together 19812 From sonship this goes to clan 19813 and to avoid litigations 19814 out of the field, from the trees, 19815 Food is the root. 19816 Feed the people. 19817 This much I, Chên, have heard. Yo el rey. 19818 Yang3 nourish [Page 696] 19819 chih2-5 ma set out hemp 19820 chun3 mi'en2 cotton 19821 t'ung2 all together. 19822 IV. There are functions. 19823 Rats' gnaws, and bird's pecks: litigations, 19824 pine rat and oak cat, squirrel to you, 19825 sparrow, hemp-bird, rats' gnaws and tit-horns 19826 rush to law without cause; 19827 tie knots into ruin of property 19828 fei (four), waste time, flounder in business, 19829 The organization is functional 19830 and to maintain a liquidity ... 19831 begin at the precinct level... 19832 Dripping with sympathy to fan up contentions, 19833 good luck as a door that is sealed, 19834 Nor scrape iron off the point of a needle. 19835 There can be equity in plowing and weeding 19836 when men of war know the Odes. 19837 Esteem sanity in curricula. 19838 You cannot leave out the classics ... 19839 Prey on the people because they have no solid principles 19840 And of Taosers, Chu says: 19841 concerned neither with heaven, earth 19842 or with anything on the square 19843 but wholly subjective, for the Dragon moaning, 19844 the screaming tiger, mercury, pills, pharmacopia, [Page 697] 19845 And the Bhud rot: that floaters eat 19846 without maintaining their homesteads 19847 Hence the learned Redson's remarks. 19848 And don't believe papists merely because they 19849 helped with the calendar. 19850 Odysseus' old ma missed his conversation. 19851 Nestor "too intelligent to prevaricate." 19852 Unsifted hot words, at first merely to flatter 19853 as an animal his eye eating light 19854 or run to rat holes 19855 Laws must be for the general good, 19856 for the people's uprightness, 19857 their moral uprightness. 19858 Ch'ung2 venerate 19859 Black out the eroders, hsieh2 19860 venerate honest men 19861 The great balance is not made in a day 19862 nor for one holiday only. 19863 The business of relatives is filiality, 19864 a gentleman's job is his sincerity. 19865 Build pen yeh 19866 the family profession 19867 It will bring luck out of the air 19868 If you mind your own business they (the phonies) 19869 will fade out before they have to be druv. 19870 Wang: that man's phallic heart is from heaven 19871 a clear spring of rightness, 19872 Greed turns it awry, 19873 Bright gleaming, ming
19875 need you go so far to burn incense? 19876 VIII. Let the laws be made clear, 19877 Illumine the words of procedure, 19878 Peace comes of good manners 19879 feng1 su2-5 li feng su 19880 INTENZIONE li feng su jang4. 19881 The sages of Han had a saying: 19882 Manners are from earth and from water 19883 They arise out of hills and streams 19884 The spirit of air is of the country 19885 Men's manners cannot be one 19886 (same, identical) 19887 Kung said: are classic of heaven, 19888 They bind thru the earth 19889 and flow 19890 With recurrence, 19891 action, humanitas, equity 19892 ne ultra crepidam, 19893 for greater exactness 19894 The Tenth is PEN YEH 19895 "a developed skill from persistence" 19896 Thus Mang Tzu 19897 (Crysippus, Simbabwe: "the un-good merely dissolve") 19898 se non fosse cive 19899 "a share, not a fixed charge" 19900 don't pester scholars, 19901 nor lose life for bad temper. 19902 Heaven, man, earth, our law as written 19903 not outside their natural colour, [Page 699] 19904 water, earth and biceps, fa3-5 lu [Image] 19905 Crusaders' bows gnawed by gold-lice, 19906 Normandy pawned, 19907 "some of the non-interest-bearing" 19908 (T. C. P. '78) 19909 A man's paradise is his good nature 19910 (Khati) 19911 doubled kuang1 ming2 19912 Synesius thought myth expedient. Al Kindi: The classics 19913 if our intentions were serious. 19914 Mencken said: No longer fromm. 19915 Han, (IX, i.e. nine) believed in the peoples, 19916 Different each, different customs 19917 but one root in the equities, 19918 One in acumen, 19919 with the sun (chih) 19920 under it all 19921 & faith with the word 19922 Hills and streams colour the air, 19923 vigour, tranquility, not one set of rules. 19924 Vigour, quietude, are of place 19925 Uen Ogn of Han-time built schools, 19926 rode circuit, 19927 selected 19928 And even now you can't buy office in Fourstreams 19929 tuan1 19930 cheng4 19931 the teacher's job is not 19932 just filling paper with detours 19933 nor in dull float (fou3 po2-5) [Page 700] 19934 Four tuan, and verity. VII 19935 And still men lust after; try to build on 19936 lopsidedness. 19937 Phoenix to t'ung tree 19938 a mirrour to flowers, as water is to the moon 19939 "Bother," said Chu Wan Kung of Sung court, 19940 "neither with a man's politics nor his religion" 19941 "neither with a man's politics nor with heaven" 19942 And Plotinus, his bellyache 19943 A great perversion 19944 from Plotinus his bellyache, 19945 Though he still thought: God of all men. 19946 The body is inside. 19947 "This clean out and that's all." 19948 Sd/ Chu, the accomplished 19949 re Tao talk 19950 "e basta." 19951 Thazz all there is to it; prolong the animal spirits, 19952 But you folk (V.) will go and believe 'em. 19953 SEVEN: Get rid of flimsy foundations. 19954 Our ancestors thought that closed minds 19955 do no good to the Empire, nor 19956 ut supra "scraping iron off the point of a needle." 19957 Let a man do a good job at his trade, 19958 whence is honesty; 19959 whence are good manners, 19960 good custom 19961 this is tuan1 cheng4 19962 good living
19964 There are five relativities: state, family and friendship, 19965 amicitia. 19966 Dolt, clear musician; the precise man and the clumsy. 19967 There are Four Books and the 5 relations. 19968 Fools fall for weapons and poison, 19969 You are not all of you idiots, 19970 There are a lot of you who will not 19971 fall for this hokum. 19972 But your females like to burn incense 19973 and buzz round in crowds and processions 19974 (Mr Baller animadverts on the similarities 19975 in all priestcraft 19976 (vide subject: "Missions" in Canto whatever) 19977 Buddha ipse is said to have been annoyed with such hoakum 19978 And as for their argot ... 19979 for the dialect of their incantations ... 19980 & the Taozers turn out to chase devils 19981 (The Papist did help with the calendar 19982 pu 19983 k'o 19984 hsin) 19985 Of heaven, earth and of things without shadows, 19986 Cut the cackle and do not believe 'em. 19987 Better physical poison than brain wash 19988 hsin1 shu4-5 19989 hai4 19990 The mind at the start had 19991 cheng4
19993 Some want more than they can get in a lifetime. 19994 2 incarnations in every home [Image] 19995 huo4-5 fu2-5 19996 and you go up hill to seek wooden ones. 19997 Kuang 19998 Kuang 19999 Ming Saith Khaty 20000 Ming 20001 tien 20002 t'ang2 20003 hsin1 20004 li3-5 20005 Confucians observe the weather, 20006 hear thunder, 20007 seek to include. 20008 Bhud: Man by negation. 20009 But their First Classic: that the heart shd / be straight, 20010 The phallos perceive its aim. 20011 Tinkle, tinkle, two tongues? No. 20012 But down on the word with exactness, 20013 against gnashing of teeth (upper incisors) 20014 chih, chih! 20015 wo chih3 chih3 20016 wo4 wo ch'o ch'o, paltry yatter 20017 wo4-5 wo4-5 ch'o4-5 ch'o4-5 20018 paltry yatter. 20019 But as Chu said, nowt to do with taking hold of anything [Page 703] 20020 in the four coigns of the universe, 20021 heaven, earth or whatsodam, 20022 No handle, 20023 no clear kuan3 20024 chao4 kuan3 20025 care for control, 20026 But to live as flowers reflected, 20027 as moonlight, 20028 free from all possessiveness in affections 20029 but, as Chu says, egoistical. 20030 As to building temples for the benefit of contractors 20031 or images for the benefit of the gilders, 20032 The incense market will benefit 20033 from your wives' red and green dresses 20034 As they run about mid riff-raff 20035 acquiring merit by comedy 20036 or by tragedy after fool vows. 20037 To release souls with burnt paper? 20038 Bhudda? divine? 20039 to be bought with a few bits of silver? 20040 And enraged if his priests do not get it? 20041 But if the scholar wants by one sniff to force up 20042 his reputation 20043 or has eye on grain-cut in exchange 20044 agiotage, profit motive, 20045 in and out of the yamen, horning in on officials 20046 mediate hand-outs and hand-overs 20047 raise fire-word swish-swash 20048 & not one dot of decency in his conduct 20049 a mere dribble with an ex-mortar-board label [Page 704] 20050 che yang ti jen 20051 a low-flow and a liu2 flow 20052 a rice dog-head pai lui for ruin 20053 An Ting made rules and observed them: 20054 2 schools for government preparation: 20055 Classic and Govt. Business, 20056 And they were neat as a bird's beak, his students 20057 and in Han time was Wen2 Weng1 20058 held office in Fourstreams 20059 pen 20060 ne ultra crepidam yeh 20061 As Dolmetsch or Big Top 20062 & that scholars read Odes 20063 and turn conversation toward justice 20064 hsiu4 ts'an2 in the home 20065 kuan1 ch'ang2 in office 20066 talk modus, 20067 keep mind on the root; 20068 Ability as grain in the wheat-ear 20069 Establish the homestead 20070 XI Teach kids to keep out of mischief, 20071 Sow to the very corner, 20072 Most people have sons or brothers, 20073 Study the ancient King Sages 20074 as compass and T-square 20075 To have masters in village schools 20076 To teach 'em classics not hog-wash 20077 &
20078 that the Kiang Sheng is to be read once a month 20079 to start 'em [Page 705] 20080 (like the ceremonial furrow) 20081 Generation being linked to posterity 20082 excellence is from learning 20083 hao hsin2 20084 an abbreviation for 20085 O4-5 from ignorance, foulness. 20086 Completeness, focus, 20087 or ruin, huai, tone four. 20088 And if your kids don't study, that's your fault. 20089 Tell 'em. Don't kid yourself, and don't lie. 20090 In statement, answer; in conversation 20091 not with sissified fussiness (chiao1) Yüklə 2,9 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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