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



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7035 Behind hill the monk's bell

7036 borne on the wind.

7037 Sail passed here in April; may return in October

7038 Boat fades in silver; slowly;

7039 Sun blaze alone on the river.

7040 Where wine flag catches the sunset

7041 Sparse chimneys smoke in the cross light

7042 Comes then snow scur on the river

7043 And a world is covered with jade

7044 Small boat floats like a lanthorn,

7045 The flowing water clots as with cold. And at San Yin

7046 they are a people of leisure.

7047 Wild geese swoop to the sand-bar,

7048 Clouds gather about the hole of the window

7049 Broad water; geese line out with the autumn

7050 Rooks clatter over the fishermen's lanthorns,


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7051 A light moves on the north sky line;

7052 where the young boys prod stones for shrimp.

7053 In seventeen hundred came Tsing to these hill lakes.

7054 A light moves on the south sky line.

7055 State by creating riches shd. thereby get into debt?

7056 This is infamy; this is Geryon.

7057 This canal goes still to TenShi

7058 though the old king built it for pleasure

7059 KEI MEN RAN KEI

7060 KIU MAN MAN KEI

7061 JITSU GETSU KO KWA

7062 TAN FUKU TAN KAI

7063 Sun up; work

7064 sundown; to rest

7065 dig well and drink of the water

7066 dig field; eat of the grain

7067 Imperial power is? and to us what is it?

7068 The fourth; the dimension of stillness.

7069 And the power over wild beasts.
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7070 Revolution' said Mr Adams 'took place in the



7071 minds of the people

7072 in the fifteen years before Lexington',

7073 That wd have been in Peter Leopold's time

7074 to his Lordship the Count Orso and his descendants

7075 male legitimate and natural the administration of

7076 civil and criminal justice in the said place

7077 debt when the Medici took the throne was 5 million

7078 and when they left was fourteen

7079 and its interest ate up all the best income

7080 the first folly was planting factories for wool spinning

7081 in England and Flanders

7082 then England kept her raw wool, so that

7083 damped down the exchanging

7084 the arts gone to hell by 1750

7085 and Leopoldo cut down the taxes

7086 found there was 'Un' abbondanza che affamava'

7087 says Zobi

7088 Leopold cut down the debt interest

7089 and put the Jesuits out

7090 and put end to the Inquisition

7091 1782

7092 and they brought in Mr Locke's

7093 essay on interest

7094 but Genoa took our trade and Livorno

7095 kept treaty with England to the loss of Livorno

7096 that is to say Livorno trade took a loss

7097 Te, admirabile, O VashinnnTTonn!

7098 Livorno stuff went in Genovese bottoms


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7099 because Tuscany kept her word and a treaty

7100 Voi, popoli transatlantici admirabili!

7101 saith Zobi, sixty years later.

7102 'Pardon our brief digression' saith Zobi:

7103 America is our daughter and VashiNNtonn had civic virtues.

7104 and Leopoldo meant to cut off two thirds of state debt,

7105 to abolish it

7106 and then they sent him off to be Emperor

7107 in hell's bog, in the slough of Vienna, in

7108 the midden of Europe in the black hole of all

7109 mental vileness, in the privvy that stank Franz Josef,

7110 in Metternich's merdery in the absolute rottenness,

7111 among embastardized cross-breeds,

7112 But Ferdinando staved off an Anschluss and Paris exploded

7113 'certain practices called religious' said Zobi

7114 'lack of experience in economic affairs'

7115 Pius sixth, vicar of foolishness, no Jew God

7116 wd. have kept THAT in power.

7117 So that about the time of MARENGO the First Consul

7118 wrote: I left peace. I find war.

7119 I find enemies inside yr frontier

7120 Your cannon sold to yr enemies

7121 1791, end of representative government

7122 18th Brumale, 10th of November

7123 14th. June, 1800 MARENGO

7124 Mars meaning, in that case, order

7125 That day was Right with the victor

7126 mass weight against wrong

7127 a.d. 1800

7128 interest at 24 to the hundred

7129 and as they say 'commerce languished'

7130 1801 the triumvirs wanted to go Leopoldine as was.

7131 A thousand of the old guard at Portoferraio
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7132 and two million a year, one half of it

7133 reversable to the Empress

7134 from Elba

7135 for the mildness of the climate

7136 and the suavity of its denizens

7137 from an English frigate descended

7138 And Ferdinando Habsburg (but of the House of Lorraine)

7139 which is the true name of the clean part of that family

7140 got back a state free of debt

7141 coffers empty

7142 but the state without debt

7143 England and Austria were for despots with commerce

7144 considered

7145 put back the Pope but

7146 reset no republics: Venice, Genova, Lucca

7147 and split up Poland in their soul was usura

7148 and in their hand bloody oppression

7149 and that son of a dog, Rospigliosi,

7150 came into Tuscany to make serfs of old Tuscans.

7151 S..t on the throne of England, s..t on the Austrian sofa

7152 In their soul was usura and in their minds darkness

7153 and blankness, greased fat were four Georges

7154 Pus was in Spain, Wellington was a jew's pimp

7155 and lacked mind to know what he effected.

7156 'Leave the Duke, Go for gold!'

7157 In their souls was usura and in their hearts cowardice

7158 In their minds was stink and corruption

7159 Two sores ran together,

7160 and hell pissed up Metternich

7161 Filth stank as in our day

7162 'From the brigantine Incostante'

7163 for a hundred days against hell belch

7164 Hope spat from March into June

7165 Ney out of his saddle


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7166 Grouchy delayed

7167 Bentinck's word was, naturally,

7168 not kept by the English. Genova under Sardegna. Hope

7169 spat from Cannes, March, into Flanders.

7170 'Not'

7171 said Napoleon 'because of that league of lice

7172 but for opposing the Zeitgeist! That was my ruin,

7173 That I ran against my own time, turning backward'

7174 OBIT, aetatis 57, five hundred years after D. Alighieri.

7175 Not, certainly, for what most embellishes il sesso femminile

7176 and causes us to admire it, they wrote of Marie de Parma

7177 his widow.

7178 Italy ever doomed with abstractions, 1850, wrote Zobi,

7179 By following brilliant abstractions.

7180 Mastai, Pio Nono, D'Azeglio went into exile

7181 and so on the 30th of October Lord Minto

7182 was in Arezzo (I think Bowring had preceded) and the

7183 crowd cried EVVIVA

7184 Evviva the Tariff League

7185 and Minto yelled Evviva Leopoldo

7186 Evviv' INDIPENDENZA, this was the new Leopoldo

7187 though Minto was for slowness and sureness.

7188 Lalage's shadow moves in the fresco's knees

7189 She is blotted with Dirce's shadow

7190 dawn stands there fixed and unmoving

7191 only we two have moved.


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7192 Shines



7193 in the mind of heaven God

7194 who made it

7195 more than the sun

7196 in our eye.

7197 Fifth element; mud; said Napoleon

7198 With usury has no man a good house

7199 made of stone, no paradise on his church wall

7200 With usury the stone cutter is kept from his stone

7201 the weaver is kept from his loom by usura

7202 Wool does not come into market

7203 the peasant does not eat his own grain

7204 the girl's needle goes blunt in her hand

7205 The looms are hushed one after another

7206 ten thousand after ten thousand

7207 Duccio was not by usura

7208 Nor was 'La Calunnia' painted.

7209 Neither Ambrogio Praedis nor Angelico

7210 had their skill by usura

7211 Nor St Trophime its cloisters;

7212 Nor St Hilaire its proportion.

7213 Usury rusts the man and his chisel

7214 It destroys the craftsman, destroying craft;

7215 Azure is caught with cancer. Emerald comes to no Memling

7216 Usury kills the child in the womb

7217 And breaks short the young man's courting

7218 Usury brings age into youth; it lies between the bride

7219 and the bridegroom

7220 Usury is against Nature's increase.

7221 Whores for Eleusis;

7222 Under usury no stone is cut smooth


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7223 Peasant has no gain from his sheep herd

7224 Blue dun; number 2 in most rivers

7225 for dark days, when it is cold

7226 A starling's wing will give you the colour

7227 or duck widgeon, if you take feather from under the wing

7228 Let the body be of blue fox fur, or a water rat's

7229 or grey squirrel's. Take this with a portion of mohair

7230 and a cock's hackle for legs.

7231 12th of March to 2nd of April

7232 Hen pheasant's feather does for a fly,

7233 green tail, the wings flat on the body

7234 Dark fur from a hare's ear for a body

7235 a green shaded partridge feather

7236 grizzled yellow cock's hackle

7237 green wax; harl from a peacock's tail

7238 bright lower body; about the size of pin

7239 the head should be. can be fished from seven a.m.

7240 till eleven; at which time the brown marsh fly comes on.

7241 As long as the brown continues, no fish will take Granham

7242 That hath the light of the doer, as it were

7243 a form cleaving to it.

7244 Deo similis quodam modo

7245 hic intellectus adeptus

7246 Grass; nowhere out of place. Thus speaking in Königsberg

7247 Zwischen die Volkern erzielt wird

7248 a modus vivendi.

7249 circling in eddying air; in a hurry;

7250 the 12: close eyed in the oily wind

7251 these were the regents; and a sour song from the folds

7252 of his belly

7253 sang Geryone; I am the help of the aged;

7254 I pay men to talk peace;

7255 Mistress of many tongues; merchant of chalcedony

7256 I am Geryon twin with usura,


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7257 You who have lived in a stage set.

7258 A thousand were dead in his folds;

7259 in the eel-fishers basket

7260 Time was of the League of Cambrai:

7261 [Image]
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CANTOS LII-LXXI

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LII
7262 And I have told you of how things were under Duke

7263 Leopold in Siena

7264 And of the true base of credit, that is

7265 the abundance of nature

7266 with the whole folk behind it.

7267 'Goods that are needed' said Schacht (anno seidici)

7268 commerciabili beni, deliverable things that are wanted.

7269 neschek is against this, the serpent

7270 And Vivante was there in his paradise, the mild air

7271 the fields rolling eastward, and the tower half ruin'd

7272 with a peasant complaining that her son was taken for war

7273 and he said 'plutocracies were less violent'.

7274 [Image] sin drawing vengeance, poor yitts paying for

7275 [Image]

7276 paying for a few big jews' vendetta on goyim

7277 I think wrote Miss Bell to her mama

7278 that when not against the interests of Empire

7279 we shd/ keep our pledges to Arabs.

7280 Thus we lived on through sanctions, through Stalin

7281 Litvinof, gold brokers made profit

7282 rocked the exchange against gold

7283 Before which entrefaites remarked Johnnie Adams (the elder)

7284 IGNORANCE, sheer ignorance ov the natr ov money

7285 sheer ignorance of credit and circulation.

7286 Remarked Ben: better keep out the jews

7287 or yr/ grand children will curse you

7288 jews, real jews, chazims, and neschek

7289 also super-neschek or the international racket

7290 [Image]

7291 [Image]

7292 [Image]

7293 [Image]

7294 [Image]


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7295 governments full of their gun-swine, bankbuzzards, poppinjays.

7296 Did commit, that he did in the Kingdom of Italy ...

7297 of the two usuries, the lesser is now put down.

7298 that he did in the Kingdom of Britain etc/

7299 Between KUNG and ELEUSIS

7300 Under the Golden Roof, la Dorata

7301 her baldacchino

7302 Riccio on his horse rides still to Montepulciano

7303 the groggy church is gone toothless

7304 No longer holds against neschek

7305 the fat has covered their croziers

7306 The high fans and the mitre mean nothing

7307 Once only in Burgos, once in Cortona

7308 was the song firm and well given

7309 old buffers keeping the stiffness,

7310 Gregory damned, always was damned, obscurantist.

7311 Know then:

7312 Toward summer when the sun is in Hyades

7313 Sovran is Lord of the Fire

7314 to this month are birds.

7315 with bitter smell and with the odour of burning

7316 To the hearth god, lungs of the victim

7317 The green frog lifts up his voice

7318 and the white latex is in flower

7319 In red car with jewels incarnadine

7320 to welcome the summer

7321 In this month no destruction

7322 no tree shall be cut at this time

7323 Wild beasts are driven from field

7324 in this month are simples gathered.

7325 The empress offers cocoons to the Son of Heaven

7326 Then goes the sun into Gemini

7327 Virgo in mid heaven at sunset

7328 indigo must not be cut

7329 No wood burnt into charcoal
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7330 gates are all open, no tax on the booths.

7331 Now mares go to grazing,

7332 tie up the stallions

7333 Post up the horsebreeding notices

7334 Month of the longest days

7335 Life and death are now equal

7336 Strife is between light and darkness

7337 Wise man stays in his house

7338 Stag droppeth antlers

7339 Grasshopper is loud,

7340 leave no fire open to southward.

7341 Now the sun enters Hydra, this is the third moon of summer

7342 Antares of Scorpio stands mid heaven at sunset

7343 Andromeda is with sunrise

7344 Lord of the fire is dominant

7345 To this month is SEVEN,

7346 with bitter smell, with odour of burning

7347 Offer to gods of the hearth

7348 the lungs of the victims

7349 Warm wind is rising, cricket bideth in wall

7350 Young goshawk is learning his labour

7351 dead grass breedeth glow-worms.

7352 In Ming T'ang HE bideth

7353 in the west wing of that house

7354 Red car and the sorrel horses

7355 his banner incarnadine.

7356 The fish ward now goes against crocodiles

7357 To take all great lizards, turtles, for divination,

7358 sea terrapin.

7359 The lake warden to gather rushes

7360 to take grain for the manes

7361 to take grain for the beasts you will sacrifice

7362 to the Lords of the Mountains

7363 To the Lords of great rivers

7364 Inspector of dye-works, inspector of colour and broideries
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7365 see that the white, black, green be in order

7366 let no false colour exist here

7367 black, yellow, green be of quality

7368 This month are trees in full sap

7369 Rain has now drenched all the earth

7370 dead weeds enrich it, as if boil'd in a bouillon.

7371 Sweet savour, the heart of the victim

7372 yellow flag over Emperor's chariot

7373 yellow stones in his girdle.

7374 Sagittarius in mid-course at sunset

7375 cold wind is beginning. Dew whitens.

7376 Now is cicada's time,

7377 the sparrow hawk offers birds to the spirits.

7378 Emperor goes out in war car, he is drawn by white horses,

7379 white banner, white stones in his girdle

7380 eats dog and the dish is deep.

7381 This month is the reign of Autumn

7382 Heaven is active in metals, now gather millet

7383 and finish the flood-walls

7384 Orion at sunrise.

7385 Horses now with black manes.

7386 Eat dog meat. This is the month of ramparts.

7387 Beans are the tribute, September is end of thunder

7388 The hibernants go into their caves.

7389 Tolls lowered, now sparrows, they say, turn into oysters

7390 The wolf now offers his sacrifice.

7391 Men hunt with five weapons,

7392 They cut wood for charcoal.

7393 New rice with your dog meat.

7394 First month of winter is now

7395 sun is in Scorpio's tail

7396 at sunrise in Hydra, ice starting

7397 The pheasant plunges into Houai (great water)

7398 and turns to an oyster

7399 Rainbow is hidden awhile.
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7400 Heaven's Son feeds on roast pork and millet,

7401 Steel gray are stallion.

7402 This month winter ruleth.

7403 The sun is in archer's shoulder

7404 in crow's head at sunrise

7405 Ice thickens. Earth cracks. And the tigers now move to mating.

7406 Cut trees at solstice, and arrow shafts of bamboo.

7407 Third month, wild geese go north,

7408 magpie starts building,

7409 Pheasant lifteth his voice to the Spirit of Mountains

7410 The fishing season is open,

7411 rivers and lakes frozen deep

7412 Put now ice in your ice-house,

7413 the great concert of winds

7414 Call things by the names. Good sovereign by distribution

7415 Evil king is known by his imposts.

7416 Begin where you are said Lord Palmerston

7417 began draining swamps in Sligo

7418 Fought smoke nuisance in London. Dredged harbour in Sligo.

7419 [Image]

7420 chih3
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LIII
7421 Yeou taught men to break branches

7422 Seu Gin set up the stage and taught barter,

7423 taught the knotting of cords

7424 Fou Hi taught men to grow barley

7425 2837 ante Christum

7426 and they know still where his tomb is

7427 by the high cypress between the strong walls.

7428 the FIVE grains, said Chin Nong, that are

7429 wheat, rice, millet, gros blé and chick peas

7430 and made a plough that is used five thousand years

7431 Moved his court then to Kio-feou-hien

7432 held market at mid-day

7433 'bring what we have not here', wrote an herbal

7434 Souan yen bagged fifteen tigers

7435 made signs out of bird tracks

7436 Hoang Ti contrived the making of bricks

7437 and his wife started working the silk worms,

7438 money was in days of Hoang Ti.

7439 He measured the length of Syrinx

7440 of the tubes to make tune for song

7441 Twenty-six (that was) eleven ante Christum

7442 had four wives and 25 males of his making

7443 His tomb is today in Kiao-Chan

7444 Ti Ko set his scholars to fitting words to their music

7445 is buried in Tung Kieou

7446 This was in the twenty fifth century a.c.

7447 YAO like the sun and rain,

7448 saw what star is at solstice

7449 saw what star marks mid summer

7450 YU, leader of waters,

7451 black earth is fertile, wild silk still is from Shantung

7452 Ammassi, to the provinces,
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7453 let his men pay tithes in kind.

7454 'Siu-tcheou province to pay in earth of five colours

7455 Pheasant plumes from Yu-chan of mountains

7456 Yu-chan to pay sycamores

7457 of this wood are lutes made

7458 Ringing stones from Se-choui river

7459 and grass that is called Tsing-mo' or ,

7460 Chun to the spirit Chang Ti, of heaven

7461 moving the sun and stars

7462 que vos vers expriment vos intentions,

7463 et que la musique conforme

7464 YAO [Image]

7465 CHUN [Image]

7466 YU [Image]


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7467 KAO-YAO [Image]


7468 abundance.

7469 Then an Empress fled with Chao Kang in her belly.

7470 Fou-hi by virtue of wood;

7471 Chin-nong, of fire; Hoang Ti ruled by the earth,

7472 Chan by metal.

7473 Tchuen was lord, as is water.

7474 CHUN, govern

7475 YU, cultivate,

7476 The surface is not enough,

7477 from Chang Ti nothing is hidden.

7478 For years no waters came, no rain fell

7479 for the Emperor Tching Tang

7480 grain scarce, prices rising

7481 so that in 1760 Tching Tang opened the copper mine (ante

7482 Christum)

7483 made discs with square holes in their middles

7484 and gave these to the people

7485 wherewith they might buy grain

7486 where there was grain

7487 The silos were emptied

7488 7 years of sterility

7489 der im Baluba das Gewitter gemacht hat

7490 Tching prayed on the mountain and


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7491 wrote MAKE IT NEW

7492 on his bath tub [Image] hsin1

7493 Day by day make it new

7494 cut underbrush,

7495 pile the logs

7496 keep it growing.

7497 Died Tching aged years an hundred, [Image] jih4

7498 in the 13th of his reign.

7499 'We are up, Hia is down.'

7500 Immoderate love of women

7501 Immoderate love of riches, [Image] jih4

7502 Cared for parades and huntin'.

7503 Chang Ti above alone rules.

7504 Tang not stinting of praise:

7505 Consider their sweats, the people's [Image] hsin1

7506 If you wd/ sit calm on throne.

7507 [Image] Hsia
7508 Hia! Hia is fallen

7509 for offence to the spirits

7510 For sweats of the people.

7511 Not by your virtue

7512 but by virtue of Tching Tang

7513 Honour to YU, converter of waters

7514 Honour Tching Tang

7515 Honour to YIN

7516 seek old men and new tools

7517 After five hundred years came then Wen Wang

7518 B.C. 1231

7519 Uncle Ki said: Jewels!

7520 You eat nothing but bears' paws.

7521 In marble tower of Lou Tai doors were of jasper


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7522 that palace was ten years in the making

7523 Tan Ki, palace, lit by day with torches and lanthorns

7524 Now Kieou's daughter

7525 was baked in an ox and served.

7526 And they worked out the Y-king or changes

7527 to guess from

7528 In plain of Mou Ye, Cheou-sin came as a forest moving

7529 Wu Wang entered the city


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