The cantos of ezra pound [from The Cantos of Ezra Pound (1972)]
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5629 Betuene Aprile and Merche 5630 with sap new in the bough 5631 With plum flowers above them 5632 with almond on the black bough 5633 With jasmine and olive leaf, 5634 To the beat of the measure 5635 From star up to the half-dark 5636 From half-dark to half-dark 5637 Unceasing the measure 5638 Flank by flank on the headland 5639 with the Goddess' eyes to seaward 5640 By Circeo, by Terracina, with the stone eyes 5641 white toward the sea 5642 With one measure, unceasing: 5643 "Fac deum!" "Est factus." 5644 Ver novum! 5645 ver novum! 5646 Thus made the spring, 5647 Can see but their eyes in the dark 5648 not the bough that he walked on.
5649 Beaten from flesh into light 5650 Hath swallowed the fire-ball 5651 A traverso le foglie 5652 His rod hath made god in my belly 5653 Sic loquitur nupta 5654 Cantat sic nupta 5655 Dark shoulders have stirred the lightning 5656 A girl's arms have nested the fire, 5657 Not I but the handmaid kindled 5658 Cantat sic nupta 5659 I have eaten the flame. [Page 197] XL 5660 Esprit de corps in permanent bodies 5661 "Of the same trade," Smith, Adam, "men 5662 "never gather together 5663 "without a conspiracy against the general public." 5664 Independent use of money (our OWN) 5665 toward holding OUR bank, own bank 5666 and in it the deposits, received, where received. 5667 De banchis cambi tenendi.... 5668 Venice 1361, 5669 '62 .. shelved for a couple of centuries .. 5670 "whether by privates or public ... 5671 currency OF (O, F, of) the nation. 5672 Toward producing that wide expanse of clean lawn 5673 Toward that deer park toward 5674 the playing fields, congeries, swimming pools, undsoweiter: 5675 Sword-fish, seven marlin, world's record 5676 extracted in 24 hours. 5677 Wd. make the loan, sterling, eight hundred thousand 5678 if Peabody wd. quit business. 5679 England 1858 5680 IN THE NAME OF GOD THE MOST GLORIOUS MR. 5681 D'ARCY 5682 is permitted for 50 years to dig up the subsoil of 5683 Persia. 5684 '62, report of committee: 5685 Profit on arms sold to the government: Morgan 5686 (Case 97) sold to the government the government's arms ... 5687 I mean the government owned 'em already 5688 at an extortionate profit 5689 Dollars 160 thousand, one swat, to Mr Morgan 5690 for forcing up gold. [Page 198] 5691 "Taking advantage of emergency" (that is war) 5692 After Gettysburg, down 5 points in one day--- 5693 Bulls on gold and bears on the Union 5694 "Business prospered due to war's failures." 5695 "If a nation will master its money" 5696 Boutwell decided bonds shd. be sold direct by the treasury. 5697 Mr Morgan: contributions to the Republican Party, largely 5698 to the republican party. 5699 Beecher's church organized by realty agents--- 5700 Belmont representing the Rothschilds 5701 "specie payment's resumption 5702 "enriched a small group of holders." 5703 stock subscription (railway construction) 5704 seldom over 30 percent ... 5705 in '76 default 39% of the total 5706 that is 39 per cent of the 5707 bonds for railway construction 5708 Said Mr Corey "there being no central institution 5709 as in London" 5710 Pujo investigation: Said Mr Morgan: 5711 "never sold short in my life" 5712 having learned that a high degree of liquidity.... 5713 1907 "cd. not have been done without Mr Baker 5714 "we cdnt. have stopped it (the panic). 5715 As to the government's arms: they were bought by 5716 one government office before they had been sold 5717 (as condemned) by another ditto (i.e. government office) 5718 passing through a species of profit sieve. 5719 "A greek," said Ionides or some other Hellene, 5720 "honest after he has cleaned up 20 thousand" 5721 meaning twenty thousand pund sterling. 5722 With our eyes on the new gothic residence, with our 5723 eyes on Palladio, with a desire for seignieurial splendours
5725 tapestries, unreadable volumes bound in tree-calf, 5726 half-morocco, morocco, tooled edges, green ribbons, 5727 flaps, farthingales, fichus, cuties, shorties, pinkies 5728 et cetera 5729 Out of which things seeking an exit 5730 PLEASING TO CARTHEGENIANS: HANNO 5731 that he ply beyond pillars of Herakles 5732 60 ships of armada to lay out Phoenecian cities 5733 to each ship 50 oars, in all 5734 30 thousand aboard them with water, wheat in provision. 5735 Two days beyond Gibel Tara layed in the wide plain 5736 Thumiatehyon, went westward to Solois 5737 an headland covered with trees 5738 Entha hieron Poseidonos, against the sun half a day 5739 is seabord marshland high-murmuring rushes. 5740 In that place great elephant herds 5741 and beasts many other amongst them 5742 So laid we house: Karikon, Gutta, Akra, Meli, Arambo 5743 These are the cities, then Lixos 5744 Pours down from out of High Libya 5745 The lixitae friendly cowboys and herders 5746 Up country be aethiopians living with untamed beasts 5747 shut in by the Lixtus mountain 5748 whereon are misshapen men swifter than horses. 5749 Men of Lixtae came with us to interpret 5750 for 12 days sailing southward, southward by desert 5751 one day sailed against sun, there is an harbour 5752 with an island 15 miles in circumference, 5753 We built there, calling it Cyrne 5754 believing it opposite Carthage as our sailing time 5755 was the same as from Carthage to the Pillars. [Page 200] 5756 Past Xrestes, a great river, 5757 a lagoon with three largish islands 5758 a day onward great hills end an inlet, 5759 Their folk wear the hides of wild beasts 5760 and threw rocks to stone us, 5761 so prevented our landing. 5762 Next is a river wide, full of water 5763 crocodiles, river horses, Thence we turned back to Cyrne 5764 for 12 days coasted the shore 5765 Aethiops fled at our coming 5766 Our Lixtae cd. not understand them. 5767 12th day rose the woody mountain 5768 with great soft smell from the trees 5769 all perfumes many-mingling. 5770 Two days, the wide bayou or inlet 5771 Lay flatland above it busy by night with fires. 5772 Filled our tanks, sailed 5 days along shore 5773 Came then West Horn, the island that closes its harbour 5774 And by day we saw only forest, 5775 by night their fires 5776 With sound of pipe against pipe 5777 The sound ply over ply; cymbal beat against cymbal, 5778 The drum, wood, leather, beat, beat noise to make terror. 5779 The diviners told us to clear. 5780 Went from that fire fragrance, 5781 flames flowed into sea, 5782 Fearing and swiftly, the land by night decked with flame 5783 One pillar of light above others 5784 Scorched at the sky and stars 5785 By day this stood an high mountain 5786 That they call the gods' carroch. 5787 By flame for three days to South Horn, the bayou, 5788 the island of folk hairy and savage 5789 whom our Lixtae said were Gorillas. 5790 We cd. not take any man, but three of their women.
5792 Rained stone, but we took three women 5793 who bit, scratched, wd. not follow their takers. 5794 Killed, flayed, brought back their pelts into Carthage. 5795 Went no further that voyage, 5796 as were at end of provisions. 5797 Out of which things seeking an exit 5798 To the high air, to the stratosphere, to the imperial 5799 calm, to the empyrean, to the baily of the four towers 5800 the NOUS, the ineffable crystal: 5801 Karxèdonion Basileos 5802 hung this with his map in their temple. [Page 202] XLI
5803 Ma qvesto," 5804 said the Boss, "è divertente." 5805 catching the point before the aesthetes had got 5806 there; 5807 Having drained off the muck by Vada 5808 From the marshes, by Circeo, where no one else wd. have 5809 drained it. 5810 Waited 2000 years, ate grain from the marshes; 5811 Water supply for ten million, another one million "vani" 5812 that is rooms for people to live in. 5813 XI of our era. 5814 Story told by the mezzo-yit: 5815 That they were to have a consortium 5816 and one of the potbellies says: 5817 will come in for 12 million" 5818 And another: three millyum for my cut; 5819 And another: we will take eight; 5820 And the Boss said: but what will you 5821 DO with that money?" 5822 "But! but! signore, you do not ask a man" 5823 what he will do with his money. 5824 That is a personal matter. 5825 And the Boss said: but what will you do? 5826 You won't really need all that money 5827 because you are all for the confine." 5828 "Noi ci facciam sgannar per Mussolini" 5829 said the commandante della piazza. 5830 "Popolo" said Cici "ignorante! 5831 "And the worst of 'em all is my "donna" 5832 (In the third year of his age) [Page 203] 5833 "Where the Pope goes is lack of money 5834 Because of the mass of clerics 5835 who bring cheques for the banks to cash, 5836 And for these the banks must pay money. 5837 And you must know how they pay, and 5838 when and on what days there are markets 5839 and in which seasons are the fairs, and 5840 when they need money in which where 5841 and what are the rates of exchange 5842 (Messire Uzzano in 1442) 5843 To have shortage neither in time nor in place 5844 but to have money there ready 5845 for sailing of ships, wangles of merchants 5846 and for the due pay for soldiers 5847 both from commune or overlord, 5848 and you must work day and night 5849 to keep up with your letters. 5850 Eleven hours the day, 32 centimes the hour 5851 "And you stole it" 5852 said the employer at Orbe 5853 After the boss had worn out his best only shoes. 5854 Monday 14th, in the morning. 5855 After six days in the training corps 5856 They sent him back to the front 5857 (documento) 5858 Geschichte und Lebensbilder 5859 Temperature of enormous importance 5860 Erneuerung des Religiosen Lebens 5861 more especially in mountain warfare 5862 In den Deutschen Befreiungskriegen, by Wilhelm Baur 5863 This remarkable work was presented 5864 to the young Uhlan officer 5865 by her imperial majesty Augusta Victoria 5866 with a tender and motherly dedication [Page 204] 5867 Renewal of higher life 5868 in the struggle for German freedom, 19 hundred and 8, 5869 in mountain warfare, 5870 ordine, contrordine e disordine 5871 "una pace qualunque" 5872 social content to the war. 5873 The young Uhlan was never out of uniform from his 5874 eighth year till the end of the war 5875 contrordine e disordine 5876 Trees, hedges of white thorn, toward San Casciano 5877 were stiff frosted with silver--- 5878 20 metres between the trenches 5879 "was identified as the hospital where Mussolini ... from 5880 photo in Corriere di Domenica, and then bombed ... 5881 Feldmarschall Hindenburg in the imperial box 5882 Heard for the first time Mozart and asked what the noise was 5883 all this god damned cultural nonsense. 5884 But Fritz' father had kept the letter 5885 That he, Herr Nvon so Forth, shd. back up 5886 his, Hindenburg's application 5887 for a seven dollar per year increase in pension--- 5888 fees due him for having participated in the 5889 Battle of Waffenschlag, in the seventies or whenever. 5890 Una pace qualunque. Over Udine ... 5891 wd. have called that eagle a portent 5892 "Yes, sir, we will file that" 5893 said the seventh under cat's dogkeeper 5894 when he rec'd the Hun ultimatum, 5895 The rest being nacherly on french vacation ... 1914 5896 "At any rate, he had the fleet out." 5897 remarked Winston's mama. 5898 "Never" said Winston to his cousin 5899 "waste time making munitions. 5900 Be a GUN, and shoot other's munitions. [Page 205] 5901 Don't waste time having ideas." 5902 (cousin deeply impressed .. but 5903 did not achieve lasting preeminence) 5904 in that world which M. Crevel has depicted 5905 in the world of Esperanza, Primrose and Augusta; 5906 of fat fussy old women and of fat fussy old men. 5907 "Sure they want war," said Bill Yeats, 5908 "They want all the young gals fer themselves." 5909 That llovely unconscious world 5910 slop over slop, and blue ribbons 5911 "Pig and Piffle" they called it in private 5912 10 pence per copy to make, 6 pence on the stands 5913 and each year 20 thousand in profits 5914 Pays to control the Times, for its effect on the market 5915 "where there is no censorship by the state 5916 there is a great deal of manipulation ..." 5917 and news sense? 5918 Cosimo First guaranteed it. 5919 To pay 5% on its stock, Monte dei Paschi 5920 and to lend at 5 and ½ 5921 Overplus of all profit, to relief works 5922 and the administration on moderate pay .. 5923 that stood even after Napoleon. 5924 Said C. H. "To strangle the bankers ...?" 5925 And Woergl in our time? 5926 To the Count de Vergennes. Paris, August. 1785 5927 Consumption tobacco, esteemed in francs 5928 15 to 30 million pounds, let us say it may be 24 5929 delivered in ports of France @ 8 sous 5930 9 million 600 thousand 5931 at the rate 6 sous to manufacture 5932 7 million and something 5933 revenue to the King 30 million 5934 to the consumer 72 [Page 206] 5935 expense of the tax in collection is therefore 5936 say 25 million 5937 presumptuous to assume 5938 Twenty million frenchmen, 19 millions accursed, Mrs. Trist, 5939 In every material circumstance..... 5940 Public debt increasing at about one million a year 5941 You will see by Gallatin's speeches.... 5942 Saddled by bank, led by a bridle 5943 National property being increased ... 5944 must furnish adequate representation ... 5945 all imported commodities are raised about 50 percent 5946 Vol. IX. 337, Lands rose in a vortex of paper, 5947 not here where the banks do not reach 5948 Mechanics get 1.50 a day 5949 But are worse off than with the old wages.... 5950 Independent use of our money ... toward holding our bank. 5951 Mr Jefferson to Colonel Monroe 5952 120 million german fuses used by the allies to kill Germans 5953 British gunsights from Jena 5954 Schneider Creusot armed Turkey 5955 Copper from England thru Sweden ... Mr Hatfield 5956 Patented his new shell in eight countries. ad interim 1933 [Page 207] THE FIFTH DECAD OF CANTOS XLII-LI [Page 209]
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5957 We ought, I think, to say in civil terms: You be 5958 damned' 5959 (Palmerston, to Russell re/ Chas. H. Adams) 5960 'And how this people CAN in this the fifth 5961 et cetera year of the war, leave that old etcetera up 5962 there on that monument!' H. G. to E. P. 1918 5963 Lex salica! lex Germanica, Antoninus 5964 said law rules at sea 5965 FIXED in the soul, nell' anima, of the Illustrious College 5966 They had been ten years proposing such a Monte, 5967 That is a species of bank---damn good bank, in Siena 5968 A mount, a bank, a fund a bottom an 5969 institution of credit 5970 a place to send cheques in and out of 5971 and yet not yet a banco di giro, and the Bailey 5972 sought views from the Senate 'With paternal affection 5973 justice convenience of city what college had with such 5974 foresight wherefore S. A. (Your Highness) as in register 5975 Nov. 1624 5976 following details: as third, a Yearly balance 5977 as 5th that any citizen shall have right to deposit 5978 and to fruits therefrom resultant at five percent annual interest 5979 and that borrowers pay a bit over that 5980 for services (dei ministri) that is for running expenses 5981 and book keeping which shall be counted a half scudo 5982 per hundred per year 5983 (All of this is important) 5984 and 6thly that the Magistrate 5985 give his chief care that the specie
5987 (id est, piú utilmente) 5988 to the good of their houses, to benefit of their business 5989 as of weaving, the wool trade, the silk trade 5990 And that (7thly) the overabundance every five years shall the 5991 Bailey 5992 distribute to workers of the contrade (the wards) holding in 5993 reserve a prudent proportion as against unforeseen losses 5994 though there shd. be NO such losses 5995 and 9th that the borrowers can pay up before the end of their 5996 term whenso it be to their interest. No debt to run more than 5997 five years. 5998 July 1623 5999 Loco Signi 6000 x [a cross in the margin] 6001 That profit on deposits should be used to cover all losses 6002 and the distributions on the fifth year be made from remaining 6003 profits, after restoration of losses no (benché) matter how 6004 small 6005 with sane small reserve against future idem 6006 I, Livio Pasquini, notary, citizen of Siena, most faithfully copied 6007 July 18th. 1623 6008 Consules, Iudices, and notary public pro serenissimo 6009 attest Livio's superscript next date being November. 6010 wave falls and the hand falls 6011 Thou shalt not always walk in the sun 6012 or see weed sprout over cornice 6013 Thy work in set space of years, not over an hundred. 6014 That the Mount of Pity (or Hock Shop) 6015 municipal of Siena has lent only on pledges 6016 that is on stuff actually hocked ... wd be we believe useful 6017 and beneficent that there be place to lend licitly 6018 MONEY to receive licitly money 6019 at moderate and legitimate interest [Page 211] 6020 was sent months ago to YYour HHighness AA VV a memorial 6021 to erect a New Mountain 6022 could accept specie from Universities (id est congregations) 6023 and individuals and from Luoghi 6024 i.e. companies and persons both public and private 6025 WHOMSOEVER 6026 not requiring that they have special privilege 6027 because of their state or conditions but to folk of 6028 ANY CONDITION 6029 that the same Mount cd/lend on good Mallevadoria 6030 (that is security) at the same rate plus a little over 6031 to cover current expenses of supervisors and employees 6032 & being sent to YY. HHighnesses (AA. VV. = YY HH) 6033 that you might understand it 6034 that it be brought to consideration with certain details 6035 discussed first orally and then put into writing 6036 (in what wd. seem to have been 1622) 6037 Stating that Siena had no income and Their Highnesses 6038 had provided credit from customs 6039 and from miscellaneous taxes 6040 and that the Grand Duke hadn't lost anything by it 6041 Plus a list of Sienese assets (coolish) 6042 Plus a lien on 'The Abundance' 6043 And knowing that all this is but a little 6044 Pledge the persons and goods of the laity 6045 And leave open door to other towns in the state 6046 who care to give similar pledges 6047 And that whoso puts in money shall have lots in the Monte 6048 that yield 5% interest 6049 and that these shareholders shall receive their due fruit 6050 And that the Gd Duke make known at Siena 6051 to the same deputies of the Bailey ... 6052 but that it be separate from the Pawn Shop 6053 and have its own magistrates and employees 6054 and that YYour HHighnesses send approbation
6056 ... the 29th day of Xember 1622 ... 6057 servants of YYour HHighnesses 6058 Nicolo de Antille 6059 Horatio Gionfiglioli 6060 Sebastiano Cellesi 6061 TTheir HHighnesses gratified 6062 the city of this demand to 6063 erect a New Monte 6064 for good public and private and to facilitate ... 6065 ..agreed to accommodate 6066 ......and to lend the fund against the Gd Duke's 6067 public entries to the sum of 6068 200,000 scudi 6069 capital for fruit at 5% annual 6070 which is 10,000 a year 6071 assigned on the office of grazing 6072 on caution of said security offered 6073 leaving ground for other towns that 6074 wish to participate 6075 with TTheir HHighnesses 6076 approbations as follows: 6077 Maria Maddalena Tutrice 6078 Horo della Rena 30 Xembre 1622 6079 Needs a stamp 6080 refer to 6081 the Governor 6082 Fabbizio bollo 6083 vedo 6084 Governatore the illustrious Bailey 6085 executed in toto & as per true rescript of 6086 TTheir HHighnesses 6087 2 Jan 1622 6088 Cenzio Grcolini 6089 which date goes in the Sienese calendar
6091 March was the New Year 6092 ACTUM SENIS, the 6093 Parish of San Joannij in the Gd Ducal Palace 6094 present the Marquis Joanne Christophoro the 6095 illustrious Marquis Antony Mary of Malaspina 6096 and the most renowned Johnny something or other de Binis 6097 Florentine Senator, witness and I notary undersigned 6098 Ego Livius Pasquinus of Marius 6099 (deceased) filius Apostolic Imperial and Pontifical notary 6100 public Judge Ordinary, Citizen of Siena Yüklə 2,9 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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