The cantos of ezra pound [from The Cantos of Ezra Pound (1972)]



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5153 Hence the delay in condemning him

5154 Aquinas head down in a vacuum,

5155 Aristotle which way in a vacuum?


[Page 180]
5156 Sacrum, sacrum, inluminatio coitu.

5157 Lo Sordels si fo di Mantovana

5158 of a castle named Goito.

5159 "Five castles!

5160 "Five castles!"

5161 (king giv' him five castles)

5162 "And what the hell do I know about dye-works?!"

5163 His Holiness has written a letter:

5164 "CHARLES the Mangy of Anjou....

5165 .. way you treat your men is a scandal...."

5166 Dilectis miles familiaris...castra Montis Odorisii

5167 Montis Sancti Silvestri pallete et pile...

5168 In partibus Thetis....vineland

5169 land tilled

5170 the land incult

5171 pratis nemoribus pascuis

5172 with legal jurisdiction

5173 his heirs of both sexes,

5174 ... sold the damn lot six weeks later,

5175 Sordellus de Godio.

5176 Quan ben m'albir e mon ric pensamen.
[Page 181]

XXXVII


5177 Thou shalt not," said Martin Van Buren, "jail 'em for

5178 debt."

5179 "that an immigrant shd. set out with good banknotes

5180 and find 'em at the end of his voyage

5181 but waste paper.... if a man have in primeval forest

5182 set up his cabin, shall rich patroon take it from him?

5183 High judges? Are, I suppose, subject to passions

5184 as have affected other great and good men, also

5185 subject to esprit de corps.

5186 The Calhouns" remarked Mr Adams

5187 "Have flocked to the standard of feminine virtue"

5188 "Peggy Eaton's own story" (Headline 1932)

5189 Shall we call in the world to conduct our

5190 municipal government?

5191 Ambrose (Mr.) Spencer, Mr Van Renselaer

5192 were against extension of franchise.

5193 "Who work in factories and are employed by the wealthy

5194 (State Convention 1821) dixit Spencer:

5195 "Man who feeds, clothes, lodges another

5196 has absolute control over his will."

5197 Kent said they wd. "deplore in sackcloth and ashes

5198 if they preserved not a senate

5199 to represent landed interest, and did they

5200 jeopard property rights?" To whom Mr Somebody Tompkins:

5201 "Filled your armies

5202 "while the priests were preaching sedition

5203 "and men of wealth decrying government credit."

5204 "in order to feed on the spoils."

5205 Two words, said Mr Van Buren, came in with our revolution

5206 and, as a matter of fact, why are we sent here?

5207 "as for you Mr Chief Justice Spencer
[Page 182]
5208 "if they vote as they are bid by their employers

5209 they will vote for the property which you so wish to protect."

5210 ..... when a turnpike depends upon congress

5211 local supervision is lost ...

5212 not surrender our conduct to foreign associations ...

5213 working classes

5214 who mostly

5215 have no control over paper, and

5216 derive no profit from bank stock....

5217 merchants will not confess over trading

5218 nor speculators the disposition to speculate ...

5219 revenue for wants of the government

5220 to be kept under public control.... do they pour

5221 national revenue

5222 into banks of deposit

5223 in seasons of speculation?

5224 .. diminish government patronage ... sailor

5225 not to be lashed save by court .. .... land

5226 to actual settler (as against Mr Clay)

5227 And when her father went broke, Mr Eaton .. gave rise to

5228 Washington gossip.... loose morals of Mr Jefferson,

5229 Servility of Martin Van Buren, said Adams (J. Quincy)

5230 when everyone else is uncivil.

5231 "No where so well deposited as in the pants of the people,

5232 Wealth ain't," said President Jackson.

5233 They give the union five years ...

5234 Bank did not produce uniform currency ..

5235 they wd. import grain rather than grow it ...

5236 Bank of England failed to prevent uses of credit ...

5237 "In Banking corporations" said Mr Webster "the

5238 "interests of the rich and the poor are happily blended."

5239 Said Van Buren to Mr Clay: "If you will give me

5240 "A pinch of your excellent Maccoboy snuff ..."
[Page 183]
5241 In Europe often by private houses, without assistance of banks

5242 Relief is got not by increase

5243 but by diminution of debt.

5244 ....... as Justice Marshall, has gone out of his case ...

5245 Tip an' Tyler

5246 We'll bust Van's biler......

5247 brought in the vice of luxuria sed aureis furculis,

5248 which forks were

5249 bought back in the time of President Monroe

5250 by Mr Lee our consul in Bordeaux.

5251 "The man is a dough-face, a profligate,"

5252 won't say he agrees with his party.

5253 Authorized its (the bank's) president to use funds at

5254 discretion (its funds, his discretion) to

5255 influence press ...

5256 veto power, with marked discretion, used no further than

5257 in objecting to bank under charter existing.

5258 "Friendly feeling toward our bank in

5259 "the mind of the President (Jackson

5260 whose autograph was sent to the Princess Victoria)

5261 wrote Biddle to Lennox Dec. 1829

5262 "Counter rumours without foundation, I had

5263 "a full and frank talk with the President who was

5264 "most kind about its (the bank's) services to the country"

5265 Biddle to Hamilton in November.

5266 "To which end, largely increased line of discounts

5267 1830, October, 40 million

5268 May, 1837 seventy millions and then some.

5269 Remembered this in Sorrento" in the vicinage of Vesuvius

5270 near exhumed Herculaneum ...

5271 "30 million" said Mr Dan Wester "in states on the Mississippi

5272 "will all have to be called in, in three


[Page 184]
5273 "years and nine months, if the charter be not extended ..

5274 "I hesertate nawt tew say et will dee-precierate

5275 "everyman's prorperty from the etcetera

5276 "to the kepertal ov Missouri, affect the price of

5277 "crawps, leynd en the prordewce ov labour, to the

5278 embararsement......"

5279 de mortuis wrote Mr Van Buren

5280 don't quite apply in a case of this character.

5281 4 to 5 million balance in the national treasury

5282 Receipts 31 to 32 million

5283 Revenue 32 to 33 million

5284 The Bank 341 million, and in deposits

5285 6 millions of government money

5286 (and a majority in the Senate)

5287 Public Money in control of the President

5288 from 15 to 20 thousand (id est, a fund for the secret service)

5289 "employing means at the bank's disposal

5290 in deranging the country's credits, obtaining by panic

5291 control over public mind" said Van Buren

5292 "from the real committee of Bank's directors

5293 the government's directors have been excluded.

5294 Bank president controlling government's funds

5295 to the betrayal of the nation....

5296 government funds obstructing the government ...

5297 and has sequestered the said funds of the government ...

5298 (with chapter, date, verse and citation)

5299 acting in illegal secret

5300 pouring oil on the press

5301 giving nominal loans on inexistent security"

5302 in the eighteen hundred and thirties

5303 "on precedent that Mr Hamilton has

5304 never hesitated to jeopard the general

5305 for advance of particular interests."
[Page 185]
5306 "Bank curtailed

5307 17 million on a line of

5308 64 million credits.

5309 "Had not Mr Taney (of the treasury) prevented

5310 that branch (in New York) from then collecting

5311 8 million 700 thousand and armed our city with

5312 9 million to defend us (the whole country)

5313 in this war on its trade and commerce,

5314 Cambreling, Globe Extra 1834

5315 Peggy Eaton's Own Story. And if Marietta

5316 Had not put on her grandmother's dress

5317 She might have lasted, a mystery. If Dolores

5318 Had not put on a hat shaped like a wig

5319 She might have remained an exotic.

5320 Placuit oculis, and did not mind strong cigars.

5321 Irritable and unstable,

5322 Is formed, is destroyed,

5323 Recomposes to be once more decomposed

5324 (thus, descending to plant life)

5325 Sorrento, June 21st. Villa Falangola

5326 In the vicinage of Vesuvius, in the mirror of memory

5327 Mr Van Buren:

5328 Judge Yeats, whom I remember etc ...

5329 Warded off scrutiny of his mental capacities

5330 By a dignified and prudent reserve which

5331 .. long practice had made second nature ...

5332 Alex Hamilton had been blackmailed but

5333 preferred, in the end, private scandal to shade on his

5334 public career.

5335 Marshall, said Roane, undermined the U.S. Constitution.

5336 No man before Tom Jefferson in my house
[Page 186]
5337 Said one of the wool-buyers:

5338 "Able speech by Van Buren

5339 "Yes, very able."

5340 "Ye-es, Mr Knower, an' on wich side ov the tariff was it?

5341 "Point I was in the act of considering"

5342 replied Mr Knower

5343 In the mirror of memory: have been told I rendered

5344 the truth a great service by that speech on the tariff

5345 but directness on all points wd. seem not

5346 to have been its conspicuous feature.

5347 I thanked him

5348 (James Jones, brother in law of Mr Clinton)

5349 for his kind offer but

5350 said my fortunes were too low in ebb

5351 for me at that moment to compromise.

5352 Lacked not who said that John Adams

5353 disliked not so much the idea of a monarch

5354 as preferred Braintree House over Hanover ...

5355 and his son, seeking light from the stars

5356 deplored that representatives be paralyzed

5357 by the will of constituents.

5358 "I publicly answered more questions

5359 than all other presidents put together"

5360 signed Martin Van Buren.

5361 "Mr Webster in debt to the bank"

5362 Damned yellow rascal, said Clay

5363 "Unnecessary, therefore injurious...

5364 interference on the part of the government.

5365 And they and their gang in congress

5366 debated three months without introducing

5367 one solitary proposition to reverse Taney's decision

5368 or in any way to relieve any distress.

5369 HIC

5370 JACET

5371 FISCI LIBERATOR
[Page 187]

XXXVIII

il duol che sopra Senna

Induce, falseggiando la moneta.


Paradiso XIX, 118.

5372 An' that year Metevsky went over to America del Sud

5373 (and the Pope's manners were so like Mr Joyce's,

5374 got that way in the Vatican, weren't like that before)

5375 Marconi knelt in the ancient manner

5376 like Jimmy Walker sayin' his prayers.

5377 His Holiness expressed a polite curiosity

5378 as to how His Excellency had chased those

5379 electric shakes through the a'mosphere.

5380 Lucrezia

5381 Wanted a rabbit's foot,

5382 and he, Metevsky said to the one side

5383 (three children, five abortions and died of the last)

5384 he said: the other boys got more munitions

5385 (thus cigar-makers whose work is highly repetitive

5386 can perform the necessary operations almost automatically

5387 and at the same time listen to readers who are hired

5388 for the purpose of providing mental entertainment while they

5389 work; Dexter Kimball 1929.)

5390 Don't buy until you can get ours.

5391 And he went over the border

5392 and he said to the other side:

5393 The other side has more munitions. Don't buy

5394 until you can get ours.

5395 And Akers made a large profit and imported gold into England

5396 Thus increasing gold imports.

5397 The gentle reader has heard this before.

5398 And that year Mr Whitney


[Page 188]
5399 Said how useful short sellin' was,

5400 We suppose he meant to the brokers

5401 And no one called him a liar.

5402 And two Afghans came to Geneva

5403 To see if they cd. get some guns cheap,

5404 As they had heard about someone's disarming.

5405 And the secretary of the something

5406 Made some money from oil wells

5407 (In the name of God the Most Glorious Mr D'Arcy

5408 is empowered to scratch through the sub-soil of Persia

5409 until fifty years from this date ...)

5410 Mr Mellon went over to England

5411 and that year Mr Wilson had prostatitis

5412 And there was talk of a new Messiah

5413 (that must have been a bit sooner)

5414 And Her Ladyship cut down Jenny's allowance

5415 Because of that bitch Agot Ipswich

5416 And that year (that wd. be 20 or 18 years sooner)

5417 They began to kill 'em by millions

5418 Because of a louse in Berlin

5419 and a greasy basturd in Ausstria

5420 By name François Giuseppe.

5421 "Will there be war?" "No, Miss Wi'let,

5422 "On account of bizschniz relations."

5423 Said the soap and bones dealer in May 1914

5424 And Mr Gandhi thought:

5425 if we don't buy any cotton

5426 And at the same time don't buy any guns......

5427 Monsieur Untel was not found at the Jockey Club

5428 ...but was, later, found in Japan

5429 And So-and-So had shares in Mitsui.

5430 "The wood (walnut) will always be wanted for gunstocks"

5431 And they put up a watch factory outside Muscou

5432 And the watches kept time....Italian marshes


[Page 189]
5433 been waiting since Tiberius' time ...

5434 "Marry" said Beebe, "how do the fish live in the sea."

5435 Rivera, the Spanish dictator, dictated that the

5436 Infante was physically unfit to inherit ...

5437 gothic type still used in Vienna

5438 because the old folks are used to that type.

5439 And Schlossmann

5440 suggested that I stay there in Vienna

5441 As stool-pigeon against the Anschluss

5442 Because the Ausstrians needed a Buddha

5443 (Seay, brother, I leev et tuh yew!)

5444 The white man who made the tempest in Baluba

5445 Der im Baluba das Gewitter gemacht hat ...

5446 they spell words with a drum beat,

5447 "The country is overbrained" said the hungarian nobleman

5448 in 1923. Kosouth (Ku' shoot) used, I understand

5449 To sit in a café---all done by conversation---

5450 It was all done by conversation,

5451 possibly because one repeats the point when conversing:

5452 "Vienna contains a mixture of races."

5453 wd. I stay and be Bhudd-ha?

5454 "They are accustomed to having an Emperor. They must have

5455 Something to worship. (1927)"

5456 But their humour about losing the Tyrol?

5457 Their humour is not quite so broad.

5458 The ragged arab spoke with Frobenius and told him

5459 The names of 3000 plants.

5460 Bruhl found some languages full of detail

5461 Words that half mimic action; but

5462 generalization is beyond them, a white dog is

5463 not, let us say, a dog like a black dog.

5464 Do not happen, Romeo and Juliet ... unhappily

5465 I have lost the cutting but apparently

5466 such things do still happen, he

5467 suicided outside her door while
[Page 190]
5468 the family was preparing her body for burial,

5469 and she knew that this was the case.

5470 Green, black, December. Said Mr Blodgett:

5471 "Sewing machines will never come into general use.

5472 "I have of course never said that the cash is constant

5473 (Douglas) and in fact the population (Britain 1914)

5474 was left with 800 millions of "deposits"

5475 after all the cash had been drawn, and

5476 these deposits were satisfied by the

5477 printing of treasury notes.

5478 A factory

5479 has also another aspect, which we call the financial aspect

5480 It gives people the power to buy (wages, dividends

5481 which are power to buy) but it is also the cause of prices

5482 or values, financial, I mean financial values

5483 It pays workers, and pays for material.

5484 What it pays in wages and dividends

5485 stays fluid, as power to buy, and this power is less,

5486 per forza, damn blast your intellex, is less

5487 than the total payments made by the factory

5488 (as wages, dividends AND payments for raw material

5489 bank charges, etcetera)

5490 and all, that is the whole, that is the total

5491 of these is added into the total of prices

5492 caused by that factory, any damn factory

5493 and there is and must be therefore a clog

5494 and the power to purchase can never

5495 (under the present system) catch up with

5496 prices at large,

5497 and the light became so bright and so blindin'

5498 in this layer of paradise

5499 that the mind of man was bewildered.


[Page 191]
5500 Said Herr Krupp (1842): guns are a merchandise

5501 I approach them from the industrial end,

5502 I approach them from the technical side,

5503 1847 orders from Paris and Egypt....

5504 orders from the Crimea,

5505 Order of Pietro il Grande,

5506 and a Command in the Legion of Honour ...

5507 500 to St Petersburg and 300 to Napoleon Barbiche

5508 from Creusot. At Sadowa

5509 Austria had some Krupp cannon;

5510 Prussia had some Krupp cannon.

5511 "The Emperor ('68) is deeply in'erested in yr. catalogue

5512 and in yr. services to humanity"

5513 (signed) Leboeuf

5514 who was a relative of Monsieur Schneider

5515 1900 fifty thousand operai,

5516 53 thousand cannon, about half for his country,

5517 Bohlem und Halbach,

5518 Herr Schneider of Creusot

5519 Twin arse with one belly.

5520 Eugene, Adolf and Alfred "more money from guns than from

5521 tractiles"

5522 Eugene was sent to the deputies;

5523 (Soane et Loire) to the Deputies, minister;

5524 Later rose to be minister,

5525 "guns coming from anywhere,

5526 but appropriations from the Chambers of Parliaments"

5527 In 1874 recd. license for free exportation

5528 Adopted by 22 nations

5529 1885/1900 produced ten thousand cannon

5530 to 1914, 34 thousand

5531 one half of them sent out of the country

5532 always in the chamber of deputies, always a conservative,

5533 Schools, churches, orspitals fer the workin' man

5534 Sand piles fer the children.
[Page 192]
5535 Opposite the Palace of the Schneiders

5536 Arose the monument to Herr Henri

5537 Chantiers de la Gironde, Bank of the Paris Union,

5538 The franco-japanese bank

5539 François de Wendel, Robert Protot

5540 To friends and enemies of tomorrow

5541 "the most powerful union is doubtless

5542 that of the Comité des Forges,"

5543 "And God take your living" said Hawkwood

5544 15 million: Journal des Débats

5545 30 million paid to Le Temps

5546 Eleven for the Echo de Paris

5547 Polloks on Schneider patents

5548 Our bank has bought us

5549 a lot of shares in Mitsui

5550 Who arm 50 divisions, who keep up the Japanese army

5551 and they are destined to have a large future

5552 "faire passer ces affaires

5553 avant ceux de la nation."
[Page 193]

XXXIX


5554 Desolate is the roof where the cat sat,

5555 Desolate is the iron rail that he walked

5556 And the corner post whence he greeted the sunrise.

5557 In hill path: "thkk, thgk"

5558 of the loom

5559 "Thgk, thkk" and the sharp sound of a song

5560 under olives

5561 When I lay in the ingle of Circe

5562 I heard a song of that kind.

5563 Fat panther lay by me

5564 Girls talked there of fucking, beasts talked there of eating,

5565 All heavy with sleep, fucked girls and fat leopards,

5566 Lions loggy with Circe's tisane,

5567 Girls leery with Circe's tisane

5568

5569 kaka pharmak edoken



5570 The house of smooth stone that you can see from a distance

5571 ,


5572 lukoi oresteroi ede leontes

5573 wolf to curry favour for food

5574 ---born to Helios and Perseis

5575 That had Pasiphae for a twin

5576 Venter venustus, cunni cultrix, of the velvet marge

5577 ver novum, canorum, ver novum

5578 Spring overborne into summer

5579 late spring in the leafy autumn

5580

5581 KALON AOIDIAEI



5582 , .....

5583 e theos e guné.... ptheggometha thasson


[Page 194]
5584 First honey and cheese

5585 honey at first and then acorns

5586 Honey at the start and then acorns

5587 honey and wine and then acorns

5588 Song sharp at the edge, her crotch like a young sapling

5589 illa dolore obmutuit, pariter vocem

5590 , 490/5

5591


5592

5593


5594

5595 When Hathor was bound in that box

5596 afloat on the sea wave

5597 Came Mava swimming with light hand lifted in overstroke

5598 sea blossom wreathed in her locks,

5599 "What are you box?"

5600 "I am Hathor."

5601 Che mai da me non si parte il diletto

5602 Fulvida di folgore

5603 Came here with Glaucus unnoticed, nec ivi in harum

5604 Nec in harum ingressus sum.

5605 Discuss this in bed said the lady

5606 Euné kai philoteti ephata Kirkh

5607 ,


5608 es thalamon

5609


5610 Eurilochus, Macer, better there with good acorns

5611 Than with a crab for an eye, and 30 fathom of fishes

5612 Green swish in the socket,

5613 Under the portico Kirké:......

5614 "I think you must be Odysseus....

5615 feel better when you have eaten....


[Page 195]
5616 Always with your mind on the past....

5617 Ad Orcum autem quisquam?

5618 nondum nave nigra pervenit.....

5619 Been to hell in a boat yet?

5620 Sumus in fide

5621 Puellaeque canamus

5622 sub nocte....

5623 there in the glade

5624 To Flora's night, with hyacinthus,

5625 With the crocus (spring

5626 sharp in the grass,)

5627 Fifty and forty together


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