The cantos of ezra pound [from The Cantos of Ezra Pound (1972)]
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8486 eunuchs, hochangs and taxers 8487 princes get too much power 8488 TCHAO KOUANG reviewed all capital sentences 8489 took tax power from governors
8491 South Han was rotted with douanes 8492 was rotted with tortures 8493 Tsiuenpiu in snow had all Chou 8494 and was sixty six days only in taking it. And the 8495 emperor 8496 Sent his own coonskin coat to this general 8497 who promptly went gay, 8498 Five stars shone in Koué, five planets 8499 TAI TSONG brought out the true BOOKS a.d. 978 8500 and there arose in the province of Ssétchuen a revolt 8501 because of the greed of the mandarins. 8502 Not content with their salaries 8503 began to bleed merchants for licences 8504 which new damn tax made money so scarce in that province 8505 that men cdn't buy the necessities. a.d. 993 8506 Therefore Ouang Siaopo of the people 8507 demanded just distribution 8508 and they went against Tsing-chin city, and took 8509 Pongchan 8510 by violence and cut open the governor's belly 8511 which they filled up with silver 8512 (bit of what he had extorted) 8513 and TAI TSONG reigned 22 years 8514 caring for field work. Meanwhile Jelly Hugo 8515 the tartar, a Khitan, freed his people of taxes 8516 and started old age relief. Ghengis rising 8517 And Tchin-Song declined a present of sables (marte zibbeline) 8518 saying it was just as cold for the soldiers. 8519 and in ten four men cried once again Ouan Soui 8520 may he live for 10 thousand years 8521 TCHIN-TSONG 8522 ouan soui, may he live for ten thousand years 8523 who said: don't worry about coming ages 8524 the people need time to breathe.
8526 silk and in silver 8527 to keep 'em quiet as far as the wall. 8528 And the King of Khitan set court at Tchongking 8529 our lord TCHIN going mumbo 8530 and they buried him with the tracts about heaven 8531 a.d. 1022 which had wrought his dishonour 8532 and GIN TSONG cleaned out the taozers 8533 and the tartars began using books 8534 Han, Khitan, tartar wars, boredom of. 8535 Money and all that, stabilization, probably racket 8536 1069 8537 And now Fou-Pié to whom we owed the peace of 1042 with 8538 the tartars 8539 returned and was kept and made minister 8540 and CHIN-TSONG lived soberly 8541 with no splurge of table or costumes 8542 and at this time began Ngan 8543 (or more fully Ouang-Ngan-ché) to demand that they reset 8544 the market tribunals, 8545 posting every day what was on sale and what the right price 8546 of it 8547 as had been under TCHEOU emperors 8548 and that a market tax shd/ go to the emperor from this 8549 thereby relieving the poor of all douanes 8550 giving them easy market for merchandise 8551 and enlivening commerce 8552 by making to circulate the whole realm's abundance. 8553 and said he knew how hard it wd/ be to find 8554 personnel 8555 to look after this, as when YAO had appointed Koen 8556 who could not, and then YU who had drawn off the 8557 flood water 8558 And these changes annoyed, greatly, the bureaucrats [Page 297] 8559 whom he sent to confino 8560 that is the most stubborn 8561 and got younger men to replace 'em. 8562 And Liu-hoei said Ngan was a twister 8563 but the Emperor sent back Hoei's protest 8564 So Hoei begged to retire, and 8565 was sent out to Tengtcheou as governor. 8566 And Ngan saw land lying barren 8567 because peasants had nowt to sow there 8568 whence said: Lend 'em grain in the spring time 8569 that they can pay back in autumn 8570 with a bit of an increase, this wd/ augment the reserve, 8571 This will need a tribunal 8572 and the same tribunal shd/ seek 8573 equity 8574 for all lands and all merchandise 8575 according to harvest and soil 8576 so that the emperor's tithes shd/ be proportionate 8577 to the rarity or the abundance of merchandise 8578 to make commerce more easy, that the folk be not 8579 overburdened 8580 nor yet the imperial revenue be made less. 8581 and Ngan made yet a third point 8582 that was to fix the value of money 8583 and to coin enough denars 8584 that shd/ stay always on the same footing. 8585 and Fan-chungin protested 8586 but 8587 Heoi-king argued for Ngan: 8588 no man is forced to borrow this grain in spring time 8589 if peasants find it no advantage 8590 they will not come borrow it. 8591 and Ssé-ma; said, all right in theory 8592 but the execution will be full of abuse 8593 they'll take it, but not bring it back
8595 somewhat like those you want to establish 8596 a measure of ten or twelve pounds cost no more than ten pence 8597 and when the price was put up 8598 they went on buying 8599 and the whole province was ruined 8600 CHIN stayed pro-Ngan; and it was suggested that 8601 drought was due to Ngan's reforms, 8602 whereto Ngan said droughts had happened before. 8603 and at the 12th moon of the 17th year of this Emperor 8604 Ssé-ma Kouang, Fan Tsuyu and Lieou Ju offered the 8605 HISTORY, called 8606 a.d. 1084 Tsé-tchi tong kien hang mou 8607 on the model of Tso kieou ming 8608 and this began with the 23rd year of 8609 OUEÏ-LIE of TCHEOU dynasty 8610 and was in 294 books. 8611 Honour to CHIN-TSONG the modest 8612 Lux enim per se omnem in partem 8613 Reason from heaven, said Tcheou Tun-y 8614 enlighteneth all things 8615 seipsum seipsum diffundit, risplende 8616 Is the beginning of all things, et effectu, 8617 Said Ngan: YAO, CHUN were thus in government 8618 Died now the master of Nenuphar 8619 Mandarins oppressing peasants to get back their grain loans, 8620 and his dictionary is, they say, coloured with hochang 8621 interpretations and Taozer, that is Ngan's. 8622 and merchants in Caïfong put up their shutters in mourning 8623 for Ssé-kouang 8624 anti-tao, anti-bhud, anti-Ngan 8625 whose rules had worked 20 years 8626 till Ssé-kouang reversed 'em 8627 Students went bhud rather than take Kung via Ngan, 8628 Flood relief, due to Ngan?
8630 came Tsaï King pro-Ngan, probably crooked 8631 and they put Ngan's plaque in a temple 8632 HOEÏ went taozer, an' I suppose 8633 Tsaï ran to state usury. The tartar lord 8634 wanted an alphabet 8635 by name Akouta, ordered a written tongue for Kin tartars 8636 And a fox walked into the Imperial palace 8637 and took his seat on the throne 8638 a mad man ran shrieking: change, tartars more tartars 8639 tartars pass over Hoang-ho 8640 And they used paper notes when coin was too heavy for 8641 transport 8642 and redeemed those notes at one third/ 8643 And there were ever all sorts of disturbers 8644 For there were the tartars, Khitan, that had 8645 taken the old Turk's country, 8646 and these tartars are called also Leao 8647 And there are Kin tartars, that were under Akouta 8648 and these are called also Nutché, from north of Corea, 8649 and there were the hordes of Ghengiz (TAI-TSOU, Témougin) 8650 of whom was CHI-TSOU or Koublai 8651 Hoang ho, Hoang ho, tartars pass over Hoang ho. 8652 SUNG died of taxes and gimcracks 8653 Mongrels in fish-skin (shagreen, or shark's skin) 8654 till 1157 the Kin used coin made in China 8655 and Oulo stopped swapping silk for the toys of Hia, a.d. 1172 8656 said: men cannot eat jewels 8657 Oulo of Kin, greatest of Kin, under him were books set 8658 into Nutché 8659 in his reign were only 18 beheaded 8660 but his brat was run by his missus 8661 and they had an ideological war 8662 'mediocrity's childhood lasts into middle age' [Page 300] 8663 they brought out a text book on music 8664 GHINGIZ (Tchinkis) hearing of alphabets 8665 hearing of mores 8666 and saw a green unicorn speaking 8667 fumée maligne in the underground 1219 8668 said Yéliu Tchutsaï: tax; don't exterminate 8669 you will make more if you tax 'em. 8670 this was a new idea to the mongols 8671 who wanted to turn all land into grazing 8672 and saw no use for human inhabitants 8673 these mongrels bein' 'orsemen 8674 Ten percent tax on wine, three and 1/3rd on necessities 8675 mohammeds say different 8676 make more anyhow if you tax 'em 8677 SUNG falling, Antzar went against Kin 8678 by Tang and Teng, let 'em pass. [Page 301] LVI
8679 Billets, biglietti, as coin was too heavy for transport, 8680 but redeemed the stuff at one third 8681 And Ou-Kiai had another swat at the tartars 8682 and licked 'em 8683 And Yu-Tchong, governor of Kingtcheou in the Chensi 8684 said: my spies have told me etc/ 8685 easy to start a war, 8686 not easy to finish one. 8687 SUNG died of levying taxes 8688 gimcracks, SUNG died under HOEI the slider, 8689 And there was a man named Tchinkis in Tartary 8690 hearing of alphabets, morals, mores 8691 and a man named Yeliu-Tchutsai. 8692 Yeliu apaoki Ouanyen akouta, 8693 of Kin, of Khitan, and Genghis of Yuen, 8694 hearing of alphabets 8695 and Yeliu Tchutsai said to Ogotai: 8696 tax, don't exterminate 8697 You'll make more by taxing the blighters 8698 thus saved several millyum lives of those chinamen 8699 Bojars thought land was for grazing. 8700 ten percent tax on hooch, 31/3rd on necessities 8701 And they tried to stop the Tartars on Hoang Ho 8702 day falls like a fluttering flag 8703 East princes went by the valley of box wood 8704 to cover Mt Kuai with a palace ... 8705 'There is', said the Taozers, 8706 'A medicine that gives immortality.' 8707 and ships sent (li Sao) to Japan. 8708 Mt Tai Haku is 300 miles from heaven 8709 lost in a forest of stars, 8710 Slept on the pine needle carpet [Page 302] 8711 sprinkled horse blood 8712 praying no brave man be born among Mongols 8713 Ouen yan Tchin hochang of Kin. 8714 YAO, CHUN, YU controller of waters [Image] 8715 Bridge builders, contrivers of roads 8716 gave grain to the people 8717 kept down the taxes 8718 Hochang, eunuchs, taoists and ballets [Image] 8719 night-clubs, gimcracks, debauchery 8720 Down, down! Han is down 8721 Sung is down 8722 Hochang, eunuchs, and taozers 8723 empresses' relatives, came then a founder 8724 saying nothing superfluous 8725 cleared out the taozers and grafters, gave grain [Image] 8726 opened the mountains 8727 Came taozers, hochang and debauchery 8728 And litterati fought fiercer than other men to keep out the 8729 mogul 8730 drifting dung-dust from the North. 8731 Hochang southward like rabbits 8732 half a million in one province only 8733 mus ingens, ingens, noli meum granum comedere 8734 No slouch ever founded a dynasty 8735 Died Kin Lusiang, historian and Confucian 8736 all mulberries frozen in Pa Yang 8737 Where were two million trees and beyond that 8738 Litterati fought fiercer than other men 8739 Hail breaking the trees and walls 8740 in I-Tching-tcheou 8741 Crops gone. 8742 Against Ogotai's catapults Nik-ia-su used powder 8743 May the white birds remember this warrior, good at logistics 8744 Ozin (Wodin) Youriak had 'em set out mulberry trees [Page 303] 8745 Ghenso was for no taxes, grew up as a labourer 8746 A hundred chi of rice for ten denars 8747 that is an ½ ounce of silver 8748 ZinKwa observed that gold is inedible 8749 Stored grain against famine 8750 observed that jade is inedible 8751 And they used invisible writing 8752 in Ten Bou's time came a white phoenix 8753 and in this time was Yeliu Tchutsai 8754 Meng Kong still held against Mogols. 8755 Han, Lang, Ouen, Kong, 8756 Mie, Kien, Tchong, King 8757 Fou, Pong, Chun King 8758 gone 8759 Vendome, Beaugency, Notre Dame de Clery, 8760 and they took law against Yeliu, but his leaving 8761 was 13 flutes, his lute and his library 8762 to refute charge of embezzlement 8763 And after him died Meng Kong. 8764 Kujak was crowned 8765 And the first day they put on their white clothes 8766 and the second day red robes 8767 and the third day were all lords in violet, 8768 scarlet the fourth day, and Kujak went against Hungary 8769 made war on Poland, on Prussia 8770 and Mengko took off taxes 8771 And in Caï Fong they made a grain dividend 8772 and gave instruction in farming 8773 ploughs, money, ammassi 8774 YAO, SHUN, YU, Kung 8775 TCHIN OUANG, OUEN, Ghengiz Khan 8776 And Mengko went into Bagdad, went into Kukano 8777 and died by the wall at Ho-tcheou 8778 Ogotai reigned for nine years [Page 304] 8779 Kublai ascended Mt Hianglou 8780 a.d. the Kiang full of war junks 8781 1225/65 that SUNG thought security 8782 LI TSONG believed his news service 8783 wrongly 8784 Kublai before him 8785 and about him damned rascals, courtezans, palace 8786 women 8787 Cliques, easy wars without justice. 8788 And Kublai said: Sung laws very beautiful 8789 unlike their conduct 8790 Kiassé harmed SUNG more than Mongols 8791 North is the cradle of mongols 8792 Pasepa gave them their alphabet 8793 1000 words mongol, and 41 letters 8794 SUNG sank by Yai island. The line of Ghengiz called YUEN 8795 a.d. 1278 this dynasty mo'gol 8796 Hoang-ho's fount in a sea of stars. 8797 Ouang tchi slew Ahama. Ouen Tiensiang was faithful. 8798 War scares interrupt commerce. Money was now made of brass 8799 and profit on arms went to the government 8800 wine taxed high, settlers licensed. 8801 Lou-chi brought back the grafters (Ahama's) 8802 and boosted the tea tax 8803 Tchin-kin disgusted by the size of the tax receipts 8804 and L Sieuen staved off a war with Japan 8805 staved off a war on Annam 8806 said: Taxes are not abundance 8807 Yeliu resumed the imperial college, gathering scholars 8808 KUBLAI was a buggar for taxes 8809 Sangko stinking with graft 8810 Ouantse made a law code 8811 eliminated 250 tribunals, that mostly did nowt but tax 8812 a.d. 1295 KUBLAI died heavy with years 8813 his luck was good ministers, save for the treasury.
8815 they wd/ continue bandits till fed' 8816 This known in the time of TIMOUR 8817 The last SUNG fled in what was left of a navy 8818 went down in sea waves, came mongols 8819 of Ghengiz 8820 rose KUBLAI 8821 HIA, CHANG, TCHEOU 8822 were great lines till Kungfutseu 8823 Then were HAN b.c. 202 8824 TÇIN a.d. 265 8825 TANG a.d. 618 8826 SUNG a.d. 950 8827 Then these mongols or YUEN 8828 Ghengiz, Ogotai, KUBLAI KHAN 8829 that came into Empire 8830 From the Isle of Yai, no more SUNG counting 8831 and mogols stood over all China 8832 89 years more till MING came, 1368 8833 that is from Ghengiz an hundred and 60 (Cambuskin) 8834 And in south province Tchin Tiaouen had risen 8835 and took the city of Tchang tcheou 8836 offered marriage to Ouang Chi, 8837 who said: It is an honour. 8838 I must first bury Kanouen. His body is heavy. 8839 His ashes were light to carry 8840 Bright was the flame for Kanouen 8841 Ouang Chi cast herself into it, Faithful forever 8842 High the hall TIMOUR made her. 8843 And in the 8th moon the public works and corvée department 8844 presented GIN TSONG a volume on mulberry culture 8845 by Miao Haokien where he explains in detail the 8846 growing of silk worms 8847 and of unwinding cocoons [Page 306] 8848 and the Emperor had this engraved with all diagrams 8849 and distributed throughout all China 8850 nor had any emperor more care to find men of merit--- 8851 doing what KUBLAI had intended--- 8852 a.d. than had Aïulipata called GIN TSONG 8853 1312/20 (Algiaptou khan) honouring Kung with the rites. 8854 And his son died of assassins 8855 died of the gang of Tiemoutier, lamas, foés, 8856 shit and religion always stinking in concord 8857 Came Jason against these assassins 8858 came CHUNTI last of the mogul. 8859 Two million families went down in famine 8860 blood rained on the high land 8861 green hair came down like rain 8862 Hanjong levelled the temples 8863 his folk burst into joy 8864 to put land back under tillage 8865 CHUNTI came to the college, as had not in 12 years of reign 8866 gave a silver seal to Kung's epigon 8867 but gangsters continued 8868 a pirate declined to turn mandarin, 8869 a comet exploded in Pleiades 8870 Hoang-ho shifted its bed 8871 and they said that the Milé Buddha 8872 had come down to turn out the mogul, 8873 pseudo-Sung put on red hats 8874 Tienouan beat the rebels, Taipou was killed by rebels 8875 Singki respected 8876 and the lamas put on a ballet for CHUNTI 8877 in ivory headgear 8878 castagnettes crinkling and clacking, and a Tang dance 8879 without fancy clothes 8880 Kongpei said to Toto: Don't open dispatches. 8881 Dragon barge drifted with music 8882 Statue poured water amidship
8884 they say CHUNTI invented this clockwork 8885 The Red Caps called their candidate Ming Ouan 8886 as if emperor 8887 Left monkhood and put manhood on 8888 to end the line of Ghengiz khan 8889 Yuentchang ceased being hochang 8890 took Ito Yen without pillage 8891 and passed over Kiang river 8892 conquered the Taiping province 8893 Comet in Tchang star, over Tai Ming shone the meteor 8894 broom-shaped 8895 Ming coming out of South Country, In 35 years' dissolution 8896 CHUNTI ceased from the throne. 8897 Died Yukiou of more than ten wounds 8898 Now in Chang-tou was ruin 8899 the high house of KUBLAI cast down 8900 Came Ming slowly, a thousand, an hundred thousand 8901 the pirate Kouetchin came to him 8902 At court, eunuchs and grafters 8903 among mongols no man trusted other 8904 The empress' folk in Corea killed off king Peyen 8905 Of MING were now 200,000 8906 that fought three days in the boat fight 8907 there by lake Peyan 8908 to Hoang Ho the river 8909 Yeougin and the Tching brothers 8910 till Leou Lean was arrowed. 8911 And they left Tchin-li his father's treasure 8912 but took his grain for the people. 8913 Came MING thus to KianKing, say 1368 8914 For crime after TIMOUR the mandate 8915 left YUEN mongols 8916 No slouch ever founded a dynasty 8917 From Ghengiz were 8 score years until MING time
8919 suis fils d'un pauvre laboureur 8920 In a village of Ssetcheou in the province of Kiangnan 8921 at seventeen was made shaveling 8922 then enrolled under Tsehing the captain 8923 This is called Destiny 8924 Schicksal to bring peace to the Empire 8925 Li, Su, Tong and I 8926 were four musketeers 8927 We were workmen in the same village 8928 we were plain sojers together 8929 If we can take Chantong province, we can take Pekin 8930 (and did so, 1368) 8931 He said to Su Ta: Do as you deem 8932 CHANG, CHOU, and HAN rose by talents 8933 Once we four were lucky to have even canvas coats 8934 Mongols are fallen 8935 from losing the law of Chung Ni 8936 (Confucius) [Image] 8937 HAN came from the people 8938 How many fathers and husbands are fallen 8939 Make census [Image] 8940 Give rice to their families 8941 Give them money for rites 8942 Let rich folk keep their goods by them 8943 Let the poor be provided 8944 I came not against YUEN 8945 but against grafters and rebels 8946 I rebelled not against KUBLAI, not against Ghengizkhan 8947 but against lice that ate their descendants. 8948 TAI TSONG 8949 KAO TSEU 8950 TAI TSOU 8951 and now HONG VOU three hundred, three hundred [Page 309] 8952 each had 300 years by the mandate 8953 five cycles of 60 years 8954 Mongols were an interval 8955 YAO [Image] 8956 SHUN [Image] 8957 HAN [Image] 8958 TCHEU [Image] 8959 'Once again war is over. Go talk to the savants.' 8960 He gave fur coats to the troops in Ninghia 8961 Showed no zenophobia. Moguls wd/ not have chinese in office. 8962 In Pekin he paid the soldiers 8963 To peasants he gave allotments 8964 gave tools and yoke oxen 8965 No eunuchs to serve save as domestics 8966 'Don't believe all you are told by officials 8967 'I suggest', said HONG VOU, 'that you get a faculty 8968 a good faculty before increasing the number of students.'
8970 Capn Yé-ouang built an ice wall 8971 to keep off the Yuen 8972 which they took for a real wall. 8973 'Coreans are gentle by nature'. 8974 and that year the Emperor died. 8975 Five planets were in conjunction. 8976 In '84 died General Li-ouen, in '85 Su Ta 8977 in 1386 peace 8978 HONG VOU declined a treatise on Immortality 8979 offered by Taozers, Et 8980 En l'an trentunième de son Empire 8981 l'an soixante de son eage Yüklə 2,9 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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