The cantos of ezra pound [from The Cantos of Ezra Pound (1972)]
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7530 gave out grain till the treasures were empty 7531 by the Nine vases of YU, demobilized army 7532 sent horses to Hoa-chan 7533 To the peach groves 7534 Dated his year from the winter solstice. 7535 Red was his dynasty. 7536 Kids 8 to 15 in the schools, then higher training 7537 mottoes writ all over walls 7538 'Use their ways and their music 7539 Keep form of their charts and banners 7540 Prepare soldiers in peace time 7541 All is lost in the night clubs 7542 that was gained under good rule.' 7543 Wagon with small box wherein was a needle 7544 that pointed to southward 7545 and this was called the South Chariot. 7546 Lo Yang in the middle Kingdom and its length 7547 was 17200 feet. Saith Tcheou Kong: True sage seeks not repose. 7548 Hope without work is crazy 7549 Your forebear among the people 7550 dressed as one of the people 7551 Caring for needs of the people, 7552 old when he came to the throne 7553 Observing the solstice. 7554 Died eleven o six ante Christum 7555 are still bits of his writing 7556 'A good governor is as wind over grass
7558 Tching-ouang kept lynx eye on bureaucrats 7559 lynx eye on the currency 7560 weight of the tchu was one 24th of an ounce 7561 or one hundred grains of millet 7562 cloth bolt and silk bolt 7563 to be two feet two inches by four tchang (one Tchang equals 7564 four feet) 7565 reigned till 1079 7566 and was peace for the rest of his reign. 7567 Called for his hat shaped as a mortar board 7568 set out the precious stones on his table 7569 saying this is my will and my last will 7570 Keep peace 7571 Keep the peace, care for the people. 7572 Ten lines, no more in his testament. 7573 Chao Kong called the historians, 7574 laid out white and violet damask 7575 For the table of jewels, as when Tching-ouang received princes. 7576 On the table of the throne of the West 7577 laid out the charters 7578 constitutions of antient kings and two sorts of stone 7579 Hong-pi and Yuen-yen 7580 And on the East table he put the pearls from Mt Hoa-chan 7581 and pearls from the islands and the sphere of Chun 7582 that showeth the places of heaven. And the dance robes of In 7583 the old dynasty and the great drum that is 8 feet high 7584 these he put in the place for music. The pikes, bows, 7585 bamboo arrows and war gear he set to the East. 7586 The mats of the first rank of rushes bordered with damask 7587 of the second of bamboo and the third rank 7588 of tree bark. 7589 A gray fur cap for the crowning, and 20 ft halbards. 7590 (Ten seven eight ante Christum) 7591 'Left in my Father's orders, By the table of jewels
7593 Keep peace in the Empire 7594 Ouen Ouang, and Wu Wang your fathers.' 7595 Thus came Kang to be Emperor/. 7596 White horses with sorrel manes in the court yard. 7597 'I am pro-Tcheou' said Confucius 7598 'I am' said Confutzius 'pro-Tcheou in politics' 7599 Wen-wang and Wu-wang had sage men, strong as bears 7600 Said young Kang-wang: 7601 Help me to keep the peace! 7602 Your ancestors have come one by one under our rule 7603 for our rule. 7604 Honour to Chao-Kong the surveyor. 7605 Let his name last 3000 years 7606 Gave each man land for his labour 7607 not by plough-land alone 7608 But for keeping of silk-worms 7609 Reforested the mulberry groves 7610 Set periodical markets 7611 Exchange brought abundance, the prisons were empty. 7612 'Yao and Chun have returned' 7613 sang the farmers 7614 'Peace and abundance bring virtue.' I am 7615 'pro-Tcheou' said Confucius five centuries later. 7616 With his mind on this age. 7617 [Image] Chou 7618 In the 16th of Kang Ouang died Pé-kin 7619 Prince of Lou, friend of peace, friend of the people 7620 worthy son of Tcheou-kong 7621 And in the 26th Kang Ouang, died Chao-Kong the tireless [Page 269] 7622 on a journey he made for good of the state 7623 and men never thereafter cut branches 7624 of the pear-trees whereunder he had sat deeming 7625 justice 7626 deeming the measures of lands. 7627 And you will hear to this day the folk singing 7628 Grow pear-boughs, be fearless 7629 let no man break twig of this tree 7630 that gave shade to Chao-Kong 7631 he had shadow from sun here; 7632 rest had he in your shade. 7633 Died then Kang Wang in the 26th of his reign. b.c. 1053 7634 Moon shone in an haze of colours 7635 Water boiled in the wells, and died Tchao-ouang 7636 to joy of the people. 7637 Tchao-ouang that hunted across the tilled fields 7638 And MOU-OUANG said: 7639 'as a tiger against me, 7640 a man of thin ice in thaw 7641 aid me in the darkness of rule' 7642 then fell into vanity 7643 against council led out a myriad army and brought back 7644 4 wolves and 4 deer 7645 his folk remained mere barbarians. 7646 Yet when neared an hundred 7647 he wd/ have made reparation 7648 Criminal law is from Chun, 7649 from necessity only 7650 In doubt, no condemnation, rule out irrelevant evidence. 7651 Law of MOU is law of the just middle, the pivot. 7652 Riches that come of court fines and of judges' takings 7653 these are no treasure 7654 as is said in the book Lin hing of the Chu King. 7655 And the governor's daughters, three daughters, 7656 came to the river King-Ho,
7658 and in the twelfth month, he, KONG, burnt the town 7659 and got over it 7660 Song turned against Y-wang, great hail upon 7661 Hiao wang 7662 killing the cattle, Han-kiang was frozen over. 7663 And in his time was the horse dealer Fei-tsei 7664 industrious, of the fallen house of Pe-y 7665 who became master of equerry, who became Prince of Tsin. 7666 Li WANG avid of silver, to whom a memorial 7667 'A Prince who wd/ fulfill obligation, takes caution 7668 à ce que l'argent circule 7669 that cash move amongst the people. 7670 'Glory of HEOU-TSIE is clouded 7671 Deathless his honour that saw his folk using their substance. 7672 The end of your house is upon us.' 7673 b.c. 860 Youi-leang-fou, in memorial. 7674 Said Chao-kong: Talk of the people 7675 is like the hills and the streams 7676 Thence comes our abundance. 7677 To be Lord to the four seas of China 7678 a man must let men make verses 7679 he must let people play comedies 7680 and historians write down the facts 7681 he must let the poor speak evil of taxes. 7682 Interregnum of Cong-ho. Siuen went against the west tartars 7683 His praise lasts to this day: Siuen-ouang contra barbaros 7684 legat belli ducem Chaoumoukong, 7685 Hoailand, fed by Hoai river 7686 dark millet, Tchang wine for the sacrifice. 7687 Juxta fluvium Hoai acies ordinatur nec mora 7688 Swift men as if flyers, like Yangtse 7689 Strong as the Yangtse, 7690 they stand rooted as mountains 7691 they move as a torrent of waters
7693 HAN founded the town of Yuei 7694 and taught men to sow the five grains 7695 In the 4th year of Siuen, 7696 Sié was founded. 7697 and there were four years of dry summer. 7698 RITE is: 7699 Nine days before the first moon of spring time, 7700 that he fast. And with gold cup of wheat-wine 7701 that he go afield to spring ploughing 7702 that he plough one and three quarters furrows 7703 and eat beef when this rite is finished, 7704 so did not Siuen 7705 that after famine, called back the people 7706 where are reeds to weave, where are pine trees 7707 Siuen established this people hac loca fluvius alluit 7708 He heard the wild geese crying sorrow 7709 Campestribus locis 7710 here have we fixed our dwelling 7711 after our sorrow, 7712 our grandsons shall have our estate 7713 The Lady Pao Sse brought earthquakes. TCHEOU falleth, 7714 folly, folly, false fires no true alarm 7715 Mount Ki-chan is broken. 7716 Ki-chan is crumbled in the 10th moon of the 6th year of 7717 Yeou Ouang 7718 Sun darkened, the rivers were frozen.... 7719 and at this time was Tçin rising, a marquis on the 7720 Tartar border 7721 Empire down in the rise of princes 7722 Tçin drave the tartar, lands of the emperor idle 7723 Tcheou tombs fallen in ruin 7724 from that year was no order 7725 No man was under another 7726 9 Tcheou wd/ not stand together
7728 Sky dark, cloudless and starless 7729 at midnight a rain of stars 7730 Wars, 7731 wars without interest 7732 boredom of an hundred years' wars. 7733 And in Siang, the princes impatient 7734 killed a bad king for a good one, and thus Ouen Kong 7735 came to their rule in Sung land 7736 and they said Siang had been killed when hunting 7737 Ouen cherished the people. 7738 States of Lou were unhappy 7739 Their Richards poisoned young princes. 7740 All bloods, murders, all treasons 7741 Sons of the first wife of Ouen Kong. 7742 Ling Kong loved to shoot from the hedges 7743 you'd see him behind a wall with his arrows 7744 For fun of winging pedestrians 7745 this prince liked eating bears' paws. 7746 By the Nine Urns of Yu, King Kong 7747 made an alliance at hearing the sound of Tcheou music 7748 This was the year of the two eclipses 7749 And Cheou-lang that held up the portcullis 7750 was named 'hillock' because of a lump on his head 7751 Man of Sung, and his line of Lou land Chung [Image] 7752 and his second son was Kung-fu-tseu 7753 Taught and the not taught. Kung and Eleusis 7754 to catechumen alone. 7755 And when Kung was poor, a supervisor of victuals 7756 Pien's report boosted him Ni [Image] 7757 so that he was made supervisor of cattle 7758 In that time were banquets as usual, Kung was inspector of 7759 markets 7760 And that year was a comet in Scorpio 7761 and by night they fought in the boats on Kiang river
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7764 against council's opinion, 7765 and to gain by this wangling. 7766 Honour to Fen-yang who resisted injustice 7767 And King Kong said 'That idea is good doctrine' 7768 But I am too old to start using it. 7769 Never were so many eclipses. 7770 Then Kungfutseu was made minister and moved promptly 7771 against C. T. Mao 7772 and had him beheaded 7773 that was false and crafty of heart 7774 a tough tongue that flowed with deceit 7775 A man who remembered evil and was complacent in doing it. 7776 LOU rose. Tsi sent girls to destroy it 7777 Kungfutseu retired 7778 At Tching someone said: 7779 there is man with Yao's forehead 7780 Cao's neck and the shoulders of Tsé Tchin 7781 A man tall as Yu, and he wanders about in front of the 7782 East gate 7783 like a dog that has lost his owner. 7784 Wrong, said Confucius, in what he says of those Emperors 7785 but as to the lost dog, quite correct. 7786 He was seven days foodless in Tchin 7787 the rest sick and Kung making music 7788 'sang even more than was usual' 7789 Honour to Yng P the bastard 7790 Tchin and Tsai cut off Kung in the desert 7791 and Tcheou troops alone got him out 7792 Tsao fell after 25 generations 7793 And Kung cut 3000 odes to 300 7794 Comet from Yng star to Sin star, that is two degrees long 7795 in the 40th year of King Ouang 7796 Died Kung aged 73
7798 and there were 84 princes 7799 Swine think of extending borders 7800 Decent rulers of internal order 7801 Fan-li sought the five lakes 7802 Took presents but made no highways 7803 Snow fell in mid summer 7804 Apricots were in December, Mountains defend no state 7805 nor swift rivers neither, neither Tai-hia nor Hoang-ho 7806 Usurpations, jealousies, taxes 7807 Greed, murder, jealousies, taxes and douanes 7808 338 died Hao tse Kong-sung-yang 7809 Sou-tsin, armament racket, war propaganda. 7810 and Tchan-y was working for Tsin 7811 brain work POLLON IDEN 7812 and Tchao Siang called himself 'Emperor of the Occident' 7813 Sou Tsi thought it badinage 7814 Yo-Y reduced corvées and taxes. 7815 Thus of Kung or Confucius, and of 'Hillock' his father 7816 when he was attacking a city 7817 his men had passed under the drop gate 7818 And the warders then dropped it, so Hillock caught 7819 the whole weight on his shoulder, and held till his 7820 last man had got out. 7821 Of such stock was Kungfutseu.
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7823 So that Tien-tan chose bulls, a thousand 7824 and covered them with great leather masks, making 7825 dragons 7826 and bound poignards to their horns 7827 and tied torches, pitch-smeared, to their tails 7828 and loosed them by night from ten points 7829 on the camp of Ki-kié the besieger 7830 lighting the torches 7831 So died Ki-kié and that town (Tsié-mé) was delivered. b.c. 279 7832 For three hundred years, four hundred, nothing quiet, 7833 WALL rose in the time of TSIN CHI 7834 TCHEOU lasted eight centuries and then TSIN came 7835 and of TSIN was CHI HOANG TI that united all China 7836 who referred to himself as the surplus 7837 or needless bit of the Empire 7838 and jacked up astronomy 7839 and after 33 years burnt the books 7840 because of fool litterati b.c. 213 7841 by counsel of Li-ssé 7842 save medicine and on field works 7843 and HAN was after 43 years of TSIN dynasty. 7844 some fishin' some huntin' some things cannot be 7845 changed 7846 some cook, some do not cook 7847 some things can not be changed. 7848 And when TSE-YNG had submitted, Siao-ho ran to the palace 7849 careless of treasure, and laid hold of the records, 7850 registers of the realm for Lord Lieou-pang 7851 that wd/ be first HAN 7852 Now after the end of EULH and the death of his eunuch [Page 276] 7853 were Lieou-pang, and Hiang-yu 7854 who had taste for commanding 7855 but made no progress in letters, 7856 saying they serve only to transmit names to posterity 7857 and he wished to carve up the empire 7858 bloody rhooshun, thought in ten thousands 7859 his word was worth nothing, he would not learn fencing. And 7860 against him 7861 Lieou-pang stored food and munitions 7862 b.c. 202 so that he came to be emperor, KAO, 7863 brought calm and abundance 7864 No taxes for a whole year, 7865 'no taxes till people can pay 'em' 7866 'When the quarry is dead, weapons are useless.' 7867 'It appears to me' said this Emperor, 'that it is 7868 because I saw what each man cd/ put through.' 7869 And Lou-kia was envoy to Nan-hai, with nobility, 7870 and wished that the king (the books Chu king and Chi king) 7871 be restored 7872 to whom KAO: I conquered the empire on horseback. 7873 to whom Lou: Can you govern it in that manner? 7874 whereon Lou-kia wrote 'The New Discourse' (Sin-yu) 7875 in 12 chapters, and the books were restored. 7876 And KAO went to Kung fu tseu's tomb out of policy 7877 videlicet to please the writers and scholars 7878 A hot lord and unlettered, that knew to correct his own faults 7879 as indeed when he had first seen palace women, their 7880 splendour 7881 yet listened to Fan-kouai 7882 and had gone out of Hien-yang the palace, aroused. 7883 And he told Siao-ho to edit the law code 7884 Thereon the men in the vaudevilles 7885 sang of peace and of empire 7886 Au douce temps de pascor [Page 277] 7887 And Tchang-tsong wrote of music, its principles 7888 Sun-tong made record of rites 7889 And this was written all in red-character, countersigned by 7890 the assembly 7891 sealed with the Imperial Seal 7892 and put in the hall of the forebears 7893 as check on successors. 7894 HIAO HOEI TI succeeded his father. 7895 Rain of blood fell in Y-yang 7896 pear trees fruited in winter 7897 LIU-HEOU was empress, with devilments, 7898 till the grandees brought Hiao OUEN b.c. 179 7899 Prince of Tai to the throne 7900 that was son of KAO TI and a concubine 7901 (no tribute for the first year of his reign) 7902 And the chief of the Southern Barbarians complained 7903 that his silver import was intercepted 7904 circulation of specie impeded 7905 the tombs of his ancestors ruin'd 7906 '49 years have I governed Nan-yuei 7907 my grandsons are now fit to serve 7908 I am old, nigh blind, can scarce hear the drum-beats 7909 I give up title of Emperor.' 7910 And Kia-Y sent in a petition that they store grain against 7911 famine 7912 and HIAO OUEN TI the emperor published: 7913 Earth is the nurse of all men 7914 I now cut off one half the taxes 7915 I wish to follow the sages, to honour Chang Ti by my furrow 7916 Let farm folk have tools for their labour it is 7917 for this I reduce the said taxes 7918 Gold is inedible. Let no war find us unready. 7919 Thus Tchao-tso of his ministry (war) 7920 'Gold will sustain no man's life nor will diamonds [Page 278] 7921 keep the land under culture.... 7922 by wise circulation. Bread is the base of subsistence.' 7923 They ended mutilation as punishment 7924 were but 400 men in all jails 7925 Died HIAO OUEN TI, ante Cristum one fifty seven. 7926 After 23 years of reign, that pensioned the elders. 7927 b.c. 146 Great rebels began making lead money 7928 grasshoppers came against harvest 7929 And Li-kouang bluffed the tartars (the Hiong-nou) 7930 in face of a thousand, he and his scouts dismounted 7931 and unsaddled their horses, so the Hiong nou 7932 thought Li's army was with him. 7933 Virtue is the daughter of heaven, YU followed CHUN 7934 and CHUN, YAO having one root of conduct 7935 HIAO KING had a just man's blood on his conscience. 7936 [Image] Sin 7937 jih 7938 jih 7939 sin, 7940 HIA'S fortune was in good ministers 7941 The highbrows are full of themselves 7942 learnèd, gay and irrelevant 7943 on such base nothing stands 7944 HAN OU was for huntin', huntin' tigers, bears, leopards 7945 They said: you outride all yr/ huntsmen 7946 no one else has such good horses. 7947 The prince of Hoai-nan took to light reading 7948 Prince of Ho-kien preferred histories, Chu King 7949 and the Tcheou-li and the Li-ki of Mencius (Mong-tsé) 7950 and the Chi-king or Odes of Mao-chi and the Tchun-tsiou 7951 with the comment of Tso-kieou-min. 7952 and the Li-yo with treatise on music. [Page 279] 7953 HAN TCHAO TI opened the granaries 7954 HAN SIEUN (or SIUN) was fed up with highbrows 7955 Preferred men who knew people's habits 7956 'Writers are full of their own importance' 7957 And when the tartar king came to Tchang-ngan 7958 all the troops stood before him 7959 the great in ceremonial uniform waited before that city 7960 and the EMPEROR 7961 came out of the Palace with 7962 foreign and chinese princes, 7963 Mandarins of the army and the book mandarins 7964 as an hedge from the palace 7965 and He took his way between them 7966 mid cheering and acclamation 7967 Ouan-soui!! Ouan-soui!! 7968 10,000 Ouan Soui!! may he live for 7969 ten thousand years! 7970 They cried this for the Emperor and joy was in every voice. 7971 And the Tartar ran from his car to HAN SIEUN 7972 held out his hand in friendship 7973 and then remounted his war horse 7974 And they came into the city, and to the palace 7975 prepared 7976 And next day two imperial princes went to the Prince Tartar 7977 the Tchen-yu and brought him to the audience hall 7978 where all princes sat in their orders 7979 and the Tchen-yu knelt to HAN SIEUN 7980 and stayed three days there in festival 7981 whereafter he returned to his border and province. 7982 He was the Prince of Hiong-nou 7983 And the kings of Si-yu, that are from Tchang-ngan to the 7984 Caspian 7985 came into the Empire 7986 to the joy of HAN SIEUN TI 7987 (Pretty manoeuvre but the technicians
7989 anno sixteen, Bay of Naples) 7990 From Ngan to the Caspian all was under HAN SIEUN 7991 b.c. 49 The text of books reëstablished. And he died in the 25th of 7992 his reign 7993 And Fong-chi led the bear back to its cage 7994 which tale is as follows: 7995 Fong-chi and Fou-chi had titles but only as Queens of 7996 HAN YUEN 7997 and in the imperial garden a bear forced the bars of his cage 7998 and of the court ladies only Fong faced him 7999 who seeing this went back quietly to his cage. 8000 And now was seepage of bhuddists. HAN PING 8001 simple at table, gave tael to the poor 8002 Tseou-kou and Tchong took the high road 8003 The Prince of Ou-yen killed off a thousand, 8004 set troops to tilling the fields. 8005 KOUANG OU took his risks as a common soldier 8006 HAN MING changed nothing of OU's 8007 gave no posts to princesses' relatives 8008 and Yang Tchong sent in a placet that food prices had risen Yüklə 2,9 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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