The cantos of ezra pound [from The Cantos of Ezra Pound (1972)]
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9457 who blessed them with tea and a luncheon 9458 and in another room assez mal propre 9459 singing his prayers was another 9460 and in yet another temple apartment another said frankly 9461 he didn't see how he cd/ have lived in another body 9462 before this and in any case had no such remembrance 9463 but only the ho fo's word 9464 and they went on toward the Hans of Kalkas 9465 where they got order to turn about and come home 9466 was a war on between Eleutes and Kalkas 9467 and to tell the Oros (the O Rossians) to meet 'em at Selinga 9468 or some other place on the frontier 9469 to determine frontiers. 9470 which they accomplished next year at Nipchou. 9471 With these ambassadors were a lot of domestics 9472 five thousand 800 sojers 9473 and a spot of artillery 9474 who all passed the gt wall at Cha houkoen. 9475 And KANG walked to his grandmother's funeral 9476 a distance of 500 ly from the capital. [Page 327] 9477 And this embassy was concerning the Amur frontier 9478 coming from Petersburg 9479 but we wanted our martin sables, our huntin' 9480 that was on the north side of the Amur 9481 where are mountains and great lakes in the valleys. 9482 Year 28th of KANG HI, under the 7th moon 9483 was this treaty in latin with copies in tartar and muscovite 9484 and the chinks swore by the god of Xtians 9485 thinking nothing else wd/ have more force with the muscovites 9486 'To spare further bloodshed on our frontiers 9487 we here near the town of Nipchou 9488 swear peace solid, eternal 9489 state that boundary stones shall be set. 9490 Pray we to the GOD of all things 9491 who seeth our hearts 9492 that if any man here have reservation 9493 or plot his own profit 9494 in violence to this treaty 9495 he die before he reach a ripe age 9496 So the envoys 9497 embraced to the music of instruments 9498 and the rhoosians (Orosians) served a sort of lunch 9499 to the chinese ambassadors 9500 confitures and three sorts of wine 9501 vintage of europe 9502 and this was due to the frog and the portagoose 9503 Gerbillon and Pereira 9504 to Gerbillon in the most critical moment 9505 that he kept their tempers till they came to conclusion.
LX 9506 So the Jesuits brought in astronomy 9507 (Galileo's, an heretic's) 9508 music and physics from Europe, 9509 Grimaldi, Intorcetta, Verbiest, 9510 Koupelin. Subject of yr/ Majesty, 9511 prescribed of the tribune of rites: 9512 True that the Europeans have passed zealously many dangers 9513 and have brought us astronomy, and founded cannon 9514 which have served us in civil wars, 9515 and that one shd/ reward their services in negotiating with 9516 the ORosians. 9517 They have not made any trouble. 9518 We permit lamas, hochangs and taotsés to go to 9519 their churches 9520 It wd/ seem unwarranted to forbid only these Europeans 9521 to go to their temples. We deem therefore 9522 that they be so permitted 9523 indiscriminate to pray and burn perfumes. 9524 3rd day 2nd moon of the 31st year of KANG HI 9525 17 grandees of the Empire, whereof eleven cabinet ministers 9526 of this EMPEROR 9527 Les pères Gerbillon, Fourtères, Bournat 9528 took quinine to the palace, anno domini 1693 9529 Hence the Jesuit church in Pekin in the Hoang Tchang 9530 that is the palace enclosure. 9531 And Feyenkopf in the Kaldan war 9532 was fighting Eleutes and Mohamedans and the 9533 Emperor shot six quail de suite with six arrows 9534 and sent the Crown Prince an Eleute horse 9535 saying: I don't know that chinese bean fodder will suit him. 9536 Herewith some Kalkas sheep for prime mutton. 9537 yr affectionate father KANG HI
9539 pretty much as we thought it in Pekin, 9540 small huntin' quite pleasant, a lot of pheasants and hares. 9541 pasturage excellent. Hoang Ho fruz ½ a ft. thick. 9542 Ortes very orderly, have lost none of their mongol habits, 9543 their princes in concord, no usury. 9544 Clever especially in lookin' after their animals, 9545 clumsy bowmen, but hit their mark. 9546 And General Feyenkopf wrote him 9547 that the Eleutes had caved in 9548 and KANG HI gave a fur cap to the envoy 9549 and his (KANG HI'S) horse sweat pink 9550 as in legend the horses of Taouen land, the 9551 Tien ma, or horses of heaven 9552 and this horse in particular had been taken in the battle of 9553 Tchaomed 9554 and they had a grand show in Pekin for next new year's 9555 Mongols, Kaldans and Eleutes. 9556 'It is easy after this to be sure 9557 that all lamas are traitors. 9558 Keep these prisoners in separate rooms, 9559 sold to the Tipa who is a liar. I have taken 9560 the sun 38° 34'' 9561 i.e. one degree 20 less here than in Pekin' 9562 KANG HI 9563 Dogs bark only at strangers. And at Paichen 9564 KANG HI was pleased with the pasture land, 9565 delayed his return to the capital, 9566 stayed stag-hunting outside the great wall 9567 while Kalda had grabbed Samarkand and 9568 Bokara for the mohammeds 9569 1699 peace year in all Tartary 9570 Grimaldi, Pereira, Tony Thomas and Gerbillon 9571 sent in their placet sic: 9572 European litterati
9574 and offer sacrifice to the Heaven etc/ 9575 and that their ceremonies are grounded in reason 9576 now beg to know their true meaning and in particular 9577 the meaning of terms for example Material 9578 Heaven and Changti meaning? its ruler? 9579 Does the manes of Confucius 9580 accept the grain, fruit, silk, incense offered 9581 and does he enter his cartouche? 9582 The European church wallahs wonder if this can be reconciled. 9583 And the archbish of Antioch spent a year in Canton 9584 mousing round but not coming to Pekin 9585 but was, next year, permitted, 9586 Monseigneur Maillard de Tournon 9587 from Clemens, papa (Number XI) the Kiao Hoang 9588 and the Portagoose king sent an envoy 9589 and they cured KANG HI with wine from the Canaries 9590 w'ich putt 'em up a jot higher 9591 And too much rice went to Batavia 9592 so our lord KANG layed an embargo 9593 (a bit before Tommy Juffusun's) 9594 and a tsong-ping or second class mandarin 9595 putt up a petition: 9596 AGAINST Europes and Xtianity 9597 That there had been nine red boats into Macao 9598 Dutchmen, red-heads or Englanders. 9599 Japan, sez Tching mao, is the only considerable kingdom 9600 to east of us 9601 and Japan kept peace even all through the great Ming rebellion. 9602 Siam and Tonkin pay tribute, 9603 only danger to us is from these Europeans 9604 by Hong-mao I mean any nordic barbarian 9605 there are Yenkeli and Yntsa (meanin' froggies) 9606 and Holans 9607 all equally barbarous
9609 and the Dutch are the worst of the lot of them, 9610 poifik tigurs, 9611 their vessels stand any wind and carry a hundred cannon 9612 if ten of 'em get into Canton 9613 who knows what cd/ happen. 9614 I think we shd/ stop this danger at source 9615 or at least make 'em disarm before coming into our harbours 9616 or have 'em come in one at a time 9617 or unlade in a fortress. 9618 They wormed into Japan via Manilla they have been 9619 kicked out but still try to get in again 9620 They spend money, gather the dregs of the people, make maps 9621 I don't know what they are up to 9622 and that's not my province 9623 All I know is they refuged in Manilla 9624 And now they are top dog in Manilla 9625 I rest my case in the tribunals of Empire 9626 trusting that this bind-weed will not be permitted 9627 to root in and fortify 9628 Humbly to yr MAJESTY 9629 Tching Mao, a sea captain 9630 Dug up edict of '69 9631 PERMIT only Verbiest and his colleagues 9632 We vote to pardon all converts 9633 provided they pull down their churches, and again May eleventh 9634 MISSIONARIES have well served in reforming our 9635 mathematics 9636 and in making us cannon 9637 and they are therefore permitted to stay 9638 and to practice their own religion but 9639 no chinese is to get converted 9640 and they are not to build any churches 9641 47 europeans have permits 9642 they may continue their cult, and no others.
9644 confounded with Dutchmen 9645 Let stay, if wd/ promise never see Europe again 9646 various churches were levelled and 9647 there came an embassy from PETER of Russia 9648 1720 9649 with cavalcade and drawn sabres 9650 and a new bloke from the Kiao-hoang of Roma. 9651 Tibet was brought under and '22 was a peace year 9652 The Emp'r'r went huntin' as usual 9653 and tiger huntin' in Haitse and died the 20th of this month 9654 at 8 in the evening 9655 'no DYNASTY has come in with such justice 9656 as ours has. I have not wasted the treasures of empire 9657 considering them as the blood of the people 9658 3 million a year on river embankments 9659 I order that YONG TCHING succeed me 9660 THOU SHALT NOT 9661 lend money to sojers. 9662 Huntin' keeps manchu fit 9663 avoid the hot summer in Pekin.' 9664 He began taking trips into Tartary. 9665 History translated to manchu. Set up board of translators 9666 Verbiest, mathematics 9667 Pereira professor of music, a treatise in chinese and manchu 9668 Gerbillon and Bouvet, done in manchu 9669 revised by the emperor as to questions of style 9670 A digest of philosophy (manchu) and current 9671 Reports on the mémoires des académies 9672 des sciences de Paris. 9673 Quinine, a laboratory set up in the palace. 9674 He ordered 'em to prepare a total anatomy, et 9675 qu'ils veillèrent à la pureté du langage
9677 (namely CH'ing ming) 9678 [Image] 9679 En son Palais divers ateliers 9680 wanted the best European models 9681 fer paintin' an' scuppchure, his works in one hundred volumes 9682 wuz emperor KANG HI 61 years 9683 from 1662 and came after him
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9684 Yong tching 9685 his fourth son, to honour his forebears 9686 and spirits of fields 9687 of earth 9688 heaven 9689 utility public 9690 sought good of the people, active, absolute, loved 9691 No death sentence save a man were thrice tried 9692 and he putt out Xtianity 9693 chinese found it so immoral 9694 his mandarins found this sect so immoral 9695 'The head of a sect' runs the law 'who deceives folk 9696 'by pretending religion, ought damn well to be strangled.' 9697 No new temples for any hochang, taoists or similars 9698 sic in lege 9699 False laws are that stir up revolt by pretense of virtue. 9700 Anyone but impertinent fakers wd have admitted 9701 the truth of the Emperor's answer: 9702 What I say now I say as Emperor 9703 Applied to this daily and all day 9704 Not seeing my children not seeing the Empress 9705 till the time of mourning be ended 9706 Xtians being such sliders and liars. 9707 Public kitchen in famine 9708 Public works for the unemployed, 1725, 9709 a dole, nothing personal against Gerbillon and his 9710 colleagues, but 9711 Xtians are disturbing good customs 9712 seeking to uproot Kung's laws 9713 seeking to break up Kung's teaching. 9714 Officers at Tientsing 9715 who faked rice distribution [Page 335] 9716 and gave bad rice to the needy 9717 can damn well pay up what they have embezzled. 9718 Lieu-yu-y, state examiner said: 9719 Put magazines in the 4 towns of Chan-si 9720 (that there be set up a fondego) 9721 Look whom you choose to administer 9722 that these be not the overworked Governors 9723 To keep out graft ... if any man have loaned rice in secret ... 9724 A 100,000 pund capital 9725 wd/ mean Thirty thousand great measures 9726 At moderate price we can sell in the spring 9727 to keep the market price decent 9728 And still bring in a small revenue 9729 which should be used for getting more next crop 9730 AMMASSI or sane collection, 9731 to have bigger provision next year, 9732 that is, augment our famine reserve 9733 and thus to keep the rice fresh in store house. 9734 IN time of common scarcity; to sell at the just price 9735 in extraordinary let it be lent to the people 9736 and in great calamities, give it free 9737 Lieou-yu-y 9738 Approved by the EMPEROR 9739 (Un fontego [Footnote: 1Kb] ) 9740 And in every town once a year 9741 to the most honest citizens: a dinner 9742 at expense of the emperor 9743 no favour to men over women 9744 Manchu custom very old, revived now by YONG TCHING 9745 An' woikinmen thought of. If proper in field work 9746 get 8th degree button and 9747 right to sit at tea with the governor 9748 One, european, a painter, one only admitted 9749 And Pope's envoys got a melon [Page 336] 9750 And they druv out Lon Coto fer graftin' 9751 sent him to confino to watch men breakin' ground 9752 He had boosted the salt price. 9753 And they received the volumes of history 9754 with a pee-rade with portable cases like tabernacles 9755 the dynastic history with solemnity. 9756 'I cant', had said KANG HI 9757 'Resign' said Victor Emanuel, you Count Cavour can resign 9758 at your convenience. 9759 'To comfort the soul of my father 9760 Emperor now defunct and in heaven', said YONG TCHING; 9761 Don't think that soft talk is wanted 9762 you write down what you take for the facts 9763 call pork pork in your proposals 9764 your briefs shd/ be secret and sealed and our Emperor 9765 will publish at his discretion. 9766 Eleventh month 23rd day for ceremonial ploughing 9767 (I take it december) 9768 Out by the Old Worker's Hill 9769 YONG ploughed half an hour 9770 three princes, nine presidents did their stuff 9771 and the peasants in gt/ mass sang the hymns 9772 befitting this field work 9773 as writ in LI KI in the old days 9774 And they sowed grain and in autumn the grain of that field 9775 was for ceremonial purposes put in sacks of Imperial 9776 yellow as fit for this purpose. 9777 'You Christers wanna have foot on two boats 9778 and when them boats pulls apart 9779 you will d/n well git a wettin'' said a court mandarin 9780 tellin' 'em. 9781 And they set up a yellow pavilion 9782 with a buffet beneath it 9783 And the dishes and the court silver 9784 and in deep silence sounded suddenly trumpets
9786 and Dom Metello and the Europeans went to their places 9787 a cushion for Dom Metello 9788 and the Emperor's wine was brought in, which he offered to 9789 Dom Metello 9790 who knelt, drank, and returned to his cushion 9791 whereon they offered him fruit piled high in a pyramid 9792 and the Emperor YONG said: take him somewhere where 9793 it is cooler. 9794 So they dined him and showed him a comedy 9795 and gave him seven trunks of stuff for himself 9796 and 35 for the Portagoose boss who had sent him 9797 i.e. he wuz honoured but cdn't spill proppergander 9798 and the chink grandees took him down the canal 9799 with a dinner cooked by the chefs of the Palace 9800 and his trappings up-(as they say)-held the honour of Europe 9801 and as to Sounou being Xtian, he wuz probably also a conspiracy 9802 But the population of Yun-nan was growing 9803 and the price of grain kept goin' up. 9804 Lot of land undeveloped 9805 so they opened it 9806 tax exemption for six years on good rice land 9807 and for ten years on dry 9808 and honours in proportion to 9809 how much a bloke wd put under culture 9810 button 8th class for enough, and diplomas 9811 for 15 arpens. A peasant got two bouquets for his cap 9812 and a cramoisi scarf and a band to walk home wiff. 9813 And a boost for any mandarin 9814 that wd stake out new settlers 9815 800,000 in doles 9816 a million on canal reparations 9817 Good of the empire of any part of the empire 9818 concerns every mandarin 9819 no matter where he is located
9821 Ghost frightens no honest man. No house is 9822 durable if perched on yr neighbor's ruin 9823 An honest peasant is a prognostic 9824 wrote YONG TCHING 9825 passing in silence the other 'prognistics' of the 9826 Governor's letter 9827 Men are born with a fund of rightness you will 9828 find good men in any small village 9829 but the bureaucrats take no notice 9830 let Chiyeou be made a 7th class mandarin 9831 give him 100 ounces of silver as incentive to other men 9832 Heaven has scattered riches and poverty 9833 but to profit on other men's loss is no better than banditry 9834 in momentum of avarice, no longer steers his own course. 9835 Chiyeou didn't do it on book readin' 9836 nor by muggin' up history. 9837 Million in earthquake relief 9838 and a thousand taels to the capital Jesuits 9839 but expelled the rest from Canton 9840 'they go on buying converts' 9841 Died 1735 at 58 9842 in the 13th year of his reign 9843 Came KIEN, 40 years before 'our revolution' 9844 YONG TCHING unregretted by canaglia and nitwits 9845 'A man's happiness depends on himself, 9846 not on his Emperor 9847 If you think that I think that I can make any man happy 9848 you have misunderstood the FU
9851 Thus Tching whom Coupetai had brought up, [Page 339] 9852 for the number of bye-laws 9853 for his attention to detail 9854 unregretted by scoundrels 9855 never had death sentences such attention 9856 three trials, publication of details, examination, 9857 to poorest as for the highest 9858 CAI TSONG HIEN HOANG TI be he credited 9859 so his son Kien Long came to the throne 9860 in the 36th of that century--- 9861 and as to the rise of the Adamses--- 9862 Extensive Mohamedan treasures 9863 'Question of coin in these conquered towns is very important. 9864 I advise a few of YOUR mintage 9865 and to leave the old pieces current. 9866 Those used here, 9867 Haskai, yerqui and hotien 9868 are of bronze weighing about 1/5th of one of our ounces 9869 50 of these mahometan discs make a teuke 9870 about one of our taels. 9871 There are some useless old cannon here 9872 which I suggest we melt up for small cash 9873 to keep commerce moving.' 9874 Tchao-hou 9875 to his EMPEROR 9876 from the camp before Hashan 9877 (or Kasgar, a city in little Boucaria) 9878 This princess entered the palace when YONG TCHING was 9879 emperor 9880 as 'a young lady merely of talents 9881 recited with beautiful voice 9882 and had other amiable qualities' 9883 concubine, and having a son was made queen 9884 and for forty two years had seen him, this son, 9885 on the first throne of Asia [Page 340] 9886 in the 86th year of her age 9887 posthumous EMPRESS 9888 Hiao Ching Hien Hoang Héou 9889 and her son as memorial 9890 exempted his empire from the land tax 9891 for a year as indeed he had done before on her birthdays 9892 when she was 70 and when she reached her eightieth birthday 9893 and now, in memoriam. And he wrote 9894 a poem on the Beauties of Mougden 9895 and condensed the Ming histories 9896 literary kuss, and wuz Emperor 9897 fer at least 40 years. 9898 Perhaps you will look up his verses.
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9899 'Acquit of evil intention 9900 or inclination to perseverance in error 9901 to correct it with cheerfulness 9902 particularly as to the motives of actions 9903 of the great nations of Europe.' 9904 for the planting 9905 and ruling and ordering of New England 9906 from latitude 40° to 48° 9907 TO THE GOVERNOR AND THE COMPANIE 9908 whereon Thomas Adams 9909 19th March 1628 9910 18th assistant whereof the said Thomas Adams 9911 (abbreviated) 9912 Merry Mount become Braintree, a plantation near Weston's 9913 Capn Wollanston's became Merrymount. 9914 ten head 40 acres at 3/ (shillings) per acre 9915 who lasted 6 years, brewing commenced by the first Henry 9916 continued by Joseph Adams, his son 9917 at decease left a malting establishment. 9918 Born 1735; 19th Oct. old style; 30th new style John Adams 9919 its emolument gave but a bare scanty subsistence. 9920 'Passion of orthodoxy in fear, Calvinism has no other agent 9921 study of theology 9922 wd/ involve me in endless altercation 9923 to no purpose, of no design and do no good to 9924 any man whatsoever ... 9925 not less of order than liberty ... 9926 Burke, Gibbon, beautifiers of figures ... 9927 middle path, resource of second-rate statesmen ... 9928 produced not in Britain: 9929 tcha [Image] 9930 tax falls on the colonists. [Page 342] 9931 Lord North, purblind to the rights of a 9932 continent, eye on a few London merchants ... Yüklə 2,9 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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