The cantos of ezra pound [from The Cantos of Ezra Pound (1972)]
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12759 was built by state loan to the builders
12761 and in this war were Joe Gould, Bunting and cummings 12762 as against thickness and fatness 12763 black that die in captivity 12764 night green of his pupil, as grape flesh and sea wave 12765 undying luminous and translucent 12766 Est consummatum, Ite; 12767 surrounded by herds and by cohorts looked on Mt Taishan 12768 but in Tangier I saw from dead straw ignition 12769 From a snake bite 12770 fire came to the straw 12771 from the fakir blowing 12772 foul straw and an arm-long snake 12773 that bit the tongue of the fakir making small holes 12774 and from the blood of the holes 12775 came fire when he stuffed the straw into his mouth 12776 dirty straw that he took from the roadway 12777 first smoke and then the dull flame 12778 that wd/ have been in the time of Rais Uli 12779 when I rode out to Elson's 12780 near the villa of Perdicaris 12781 or four years before that 12782 elemental he thought the souls of the children, if any, 12783 but had rented a shelter for travelers 12784 by foot from Siria, some of them 12785 nor is it for nothing that the chrysalids mate in the air 12786 color di luce 12787 green splendour and as the sun thru pale fingers 12788 Lordly men are to earth o'ergiven 12789 these the companions: 12790 Fordie that wrote of giants
12792 and Jim the comedian singing: 12793 "Blarrney castle me darlin' 12794 you're nothing now but a StOWne" 12795 and Plarr talking of mathematics 12796 or Jepson lover of jade 12797 Maurie who wrote historical novels 12798 and Newbolt who looked twice bathed 12799 are to earth o'ergiven. 12800 And this day the sun was clouded 12801 ---"You sit stiller" said Kokka 12802 "if whenever you move something jangles." 12803 and the old Marchesa remembered a reception in Petersburg 12804 and Kokka thought there might be some society (good) left in 12805 Spain, wd. he care to frequent it, my god, no! 12806 opinion in 1924 12807 Sirdar, Bouiller and Les Lilas, 12808 or Dieudonné London, or Voisin's, 12809 Uncle George stood like a statesman 12810 fills up every hollow 12811 the cake shops in the Nevsky, and Schöners 12812 not to mention der Greif at Bolsano la patronne getting older 12813 Mouquin's or Robert's 40 years after 12814 and La Marquise de Pierre had never before met an American 12815 "and all their generation" 12816 no it is not in that chorus 12817 Huddy going out and taller than anyone present 12818 où sont les heurs of that year 12819 Mr James shielding himself with Mrs Hawkesby 12820 as it were a bowl shielding itself with a walking stick 12821 as he maneuvered his way toward the door 12822 Said Mr Adams, of the education, 12823 Teach? at Harvard? 12824 Teach? It cannot be done. 12825 and this I had from the monument
12827 Under Taishan quatorze Juillet 12828 with the hill ablaze north of Taishan 12829 and Amber Rives is dead, the end of that chapter 12830 see Time for June 25th, 12831 Mr Graham himself unmistakeably, 12832 on a horse, an ear and the beard's point showing 12833 and the Farben works still intact 12834 to the tune of Lilibullero 12835 and they have bitched the Adelphi 12836 niggers scaling the obstacle fence 12837 in the middle distance 12838 and Mr Edwards superb green and brown 12839 in ward No 4 a jacent benignity, 12840 of the Baluba mask: "doan you tell no one 12841 I made you that table" 12842 methenamine eases the urine 12843 and the greatest is charity 12844 to be found among those who have not observed 12845 regulations 12846 not of course that we advocate--- 12847 and yet petty larceny 12848 in a regime based on grand larceny 12849 might rank as conformity nient' altro 12850 with justice shall be redeemed 12851 who putteth not out his money on interest 12852 "in meteyard in weight or in measure" 12853 XIX Leviticus or 12854 First Thessalonians 4, 11 12855 300 years culture at the mercy of a tack hammer 12856 thrown thru the roof 12857 Cloud over mountain, mountain over the cloud 12858 I surrender neither the empire nor the temples 12859 plural 12860 nor the constitution nor yet the city of Dioce
12862 as by Terracina rose from the sea Zephyr behind her 12863 and from her manner of walking 12864 as had Anchises 12865 till the shrine be again white with marble 12866 till the stone eyes look again seaward 12867 The wind is part of the process 12868 The rain is part of the process 12869 and the Pleiades set in her mirror 12870 Kuanon, this stone bringeth sleep; 12871 offered the wine bowl 12872 grass nowhere out of place 12873 , , 12874 by thy herbs menthe thyme and basilicum, 12875 from whom and to whom, 12876 will never be more now than at present 12877 being given a new green katydid of a Sunday 12878 emerald, paler than emerald, 12879 minus its right propeller 12880 this tent is to me and 12881 eater of grape pulp 12882 in coitu inluminatio 12883 Manet painted the bar at La Cigale or at Les Folies in that year 12884 she did her hair in small ringlets, à la 1880 it might have been, 12885 red, and the dress she wore Drecol or Lanvin 12886 a great goddess, Aeneas knew her forthwith 12887 by paint immortal as no other age is immortal 12888 la France dixneuvième 12889 Degas Manet Guys unforgettable 12890 a great brute sweating paint said Vanderpyl 40 years later 12891 of Vlaminck 12892 for this stone giveth sleep 12893 staria senza più scosse 12894 and eucalyptus that is for memory 12895 under the olives, by cypress, mare Tirreno,
12897 Sirdar, Armenonville 12898 Or at Ventadour the keys of the chateau; 12899 rain, Ussel, 12900 To the left of la bella Torre the tower of Ugolino 12901 in the tower to the left of the tower 12902 chewed his son's head 12903 and the only people who did anything of any interest were H., M. 12904 and 12905 Frobenius der Geheimrat 12906 der im Baluba das Gewitter gemacht hat 12907 and Monsieur Jean wrote a play now and then or the 12908 Possum 12909 pouvrette et ancienne oncques lettre ne lus 12910 I don't know how humanity stands it 12911 with a painted paradise at the end of it 12912 without a painted paradise at the end of it 12913 the dwarf morning-glory twines round the grass blade 12914 magna NUX animae with Barabbas and 2 thieves beside me, 12915 the wards like a slave ship, 12916 Mr Edwards, Hudson, Henry comes miseriae 12917 Comites Kernes, Green and Tom Wilson 12918 God's messenger Whiteside 12919 and the guards op/ of the ... 12920 was lower than that of the prisoners 12921 "all them g.d. m.f. generals c.s. all of 'em fascists" 12922 "fer a bag o' Dukes" 12923 "the things I saye an' dooo" 12924 ac ego in harum 12925 so lay men in Circe's swine-sty; 12926 ivi in harum ego ac vidi cadaveres animae 12927 "c'mon small fry" sd/ the little coon to the big black; 12928 of the slaver as seen between decks 12929 and all the presidents 12930 Washington Adams Monroe Polk Tyler
12932 Robbing the public for private individual's gain 12933 every bank of discount is downright iniquity 12934 robbing the public for private individual's gain 12935 nec benecomata Kirkê, mah! 12936 neither with lions nor leopards attended 12937 but poison, veleno 12938 in all the veins of the commonweal 12939 if on high, will flow downward all thru them 12940 if on the forge at Predappio? sd/ old Upward: 12941 "not the priest but the victim" 12942 his seal Sitalkas, sd/ the old combattant: "victim, 12943 withstood them by Thames and by Niger with pistol by Niger 12944 with a printing press by the Thomas bank" 12945 until I end my song 12946 and shot himself; 12947 for praise of intaglios 12948 Matteo and Pisanello out of Babylon 12949 they are left us 12950 for roll or plain impact 12951 or cut square in the jade block 12952 nox animae magna from the tent under Taishan 12953 amid what was termed the a.h. of the army 12954 the guards holding opinion. As it were to dream of 12955 morticians' daughters raddled but amorous 12956 To study with the white wings of time passing 12957 is not that our delight 12958 to have friends come from far countries 12959 is not that pleasure 12960 nor to care that we are untrumpeted? 12961 filial, fraternal affection is the root of humaneness 12962 the root of the process 12963 nor are elaborate speeches and slick alacrity. 12964 employ men in proper season [Page 438] 12965 not when they are at harvest 12966 E al Triedro, Cunizza 12967 e l'altra: "Io son' la Luna." 12968 dry friable earth going from dust to more dust 12969 grass worn from its root-hold 12970 is it blacker? was it blacker? animae? 12971 is there a blacker or was it merely San Juan with a belly ache 12972 writing ad posteros 12973 in short shall we look for a deeper or is this the bottom? 12974 Ugolino, the tower there on the tree line 12975 Berlin dysentery phosphorus 12976 la vieille de Candide 12977 (Hullo Corporal Casey) double X or burocracy? 12978 Le Paradis n'est pas artificiel 12979 but spezzato apparently 12980 it exists only in fragments unexpected excellent sausage, 12981 the smell of mint, for example, 12982 Ladro the night cat; 12983 at Nemi waited on the slope above the lake sunken in the pocket 12984 of hills 12985 awaiting decision from the old lunch cabin built out over the 12986 shingle, 12987 Zarathustra, now desuete 12988 to Jupiter and to Hermes where now is the castellaro 12989 no vestige save in the air 12990 in stone is no imprint and the grey walls of no era 12991 under the olives 12992 saeculorum Athenae 12993 , , 12994 olivi 12995 that which gleams and then does not gleam 12996 as the leaf turns in the air 12997 Boreas Apeliota libeccio 12998 "C'è il babao," said the young mother 12999 and the bathers like small birds under hawk's eye
13001 al Tigullio 13002 "wd." said the guard "take everyone of them g.d.m.f. generals 13003 c.s. all of 'em fascists" 13004 Oedipus, nepotes Remi magnanimi 13005 so Mr Bullington lay on his back like an ape 13006 singing: O sweet and lovely 13007 o Lady be good" 13008 in harum ac ego ivi 13009 Criminals have no intellectual interests? 13010 and for three months did not know the taste of his food 13011 in Chi heard Shun's music 13012 the sharp song with sun under its radiance 13013
13014 one tanka entitled the shadow 13015 babao, or the hawk's wing 13016 of no fortune and with a name to come 13017 Is downright iniquity said J. Adams 13018 at 35 instead of 21.65 13019 doubtless conditioned by what his father heard in 13020 Byzantium 13021 doubtless conditioned by the spawn of the gt. Meyer Anselm 13022 That old H. had heard from the ass eared militarist in Byzantium: 13023 "Why stop?" "To begin again when we are stronger." 13024 and young H/ the tip from the augean stables in Paris 13025 with Sieff in attendance, or not 13026 as the case may have been, 13027 thus conditioning. 13028 Meyer Anselm, a rrromance, yes, yes certainly 13029 but more fool you if you fall for it two centuries later 13030 . . . 13031 from their seats the blond bastards, and cast 'em. 13032 the yidd is a stimulant, and the goyim are cattle 13033 in gt/ proportion and go to saleable slaughter 13034 with the maximum of docility. but if
13036 With justice, 13037 by the law, from the law or it is not in the contract 13038 Yu has nothing pinned on Jehoveh 13039 sent and named Shun who to the 13040 autumnal heavens sha-o 13041 with the sun under its melody 13042 to the compassionate heavens 13043 and there is also the XIXth Leviticus. 13044 "Thou shalt purchase the field with money." 13045 signed Jeremiah 13046 from the tower of Hananel unto Goah 13047 unto the horse gate $8.50 in Anatoth 13048 which is in Benjamin, $8.67 13049 For the purity of the air on Chocorua 13050 in a land of maple 13051 From the law, by the law, so build yr/ temple 13052 with justice in meteyard and measure 13053 a black delicate hand 13054 a white's hand like a ham 13055 pass by, seen under the tent-flap 13056 on sick call : comman' 13057 comman', sick call comman' 13058 and the two largest rackets are the alternation 13059 of the value of money 13060 (of the unit of money METATHEMENON TE TON 13061 KRUMENON 13062 and usury @ 60 or lending 13063 that which is made out of nothing 13064 and the state can lend money as was done 13065 by Athens for the building of the Salamis fleet 13066 and if the packet gets lost in transit 13067 ask Churchill's backers 13068 where it has got to the state need not borrow 13069 nor do the veterans need state guarantees
13071 in fact that is the cat in the woodshed 13072 the state need not borrow 13073 as was shown by the mayor of Wörgl 13074 who had a milk route 13075 and whose wife sold shirts and short breeches 13076 and on whose book-shelf was the Life of Henry Ford 13077 and also a copy of the Divina Commedia 13078 and of the Gedichte of Heine 13079 a nice little town in the Tyrol in a wide flat-lying valley 13080 near Innsbruck and when a note of the 13081 small town of Wörgl went over 13082 a counter in Innsbruck 13083 and the banker saw it go over 13084 all the slobs in Europe were terrified 13085 "no one" said the Frau Burgomeister 13086 "in this village who cd/ write a newspaper article. 13087 Knew it was money but pretended it was not 13088 in order to be on the safe side of the law." 13089 But in Russia they bungled and did not apparently 13090 grasp the idea of work-certificate 13091 and started the N.E.P. with disaster 13092 and the immolation of men to machinery 13093 and the canal work and gt/ mortality 13094 (which is as may be) 13095 and went in for dumping in order to trouble the waters 13096 in the usurers' hell-a-dice 13097 all of which leads to the death-cells 13098 each in the name of its god 13099 or longevity because as says Aristotle 13100 philosophy is not for young men 13101 their Katholou can not be sufficiently derived from 13102 their hekasta 13103 their generalities cannot be born from a sufficient phalanx 13104 of particulars
13106 who turneth his word in its season and shapes it 13107 Yaou chose Shun to longevity 13108 who seized the extremities and the opposites 13109 holding true course between them 13110 shielding men from their errors 13111 cleaving to the good they had found 13112 holding empire as if not in a mortar with it 13113 nor dazzled thereby 13114 wd/ have put the old man, son père on his shoulders 13115 and gone off to some barren seacoast 13116 Says the Japanese sentry : Paaak yu djeep over there, 13117 some of the best soldiers we have says the captain 13118 Dai Nippon Banzai from the Philippines 13119 remembering Kagekiyo : "how stiff the shaft of your neck is." 13120 and they went off each his own way 13121 "a better fencer than I was," said Kumasaka, a shade, 13122 "I believe in the resurrection of Italy quia impossibile est 13123 4 times to the song of Gassir 13124 now in the mind indestructible 13125 . . . . 13126 ,
13127 Glass-eye Wemyss treading water 13128 and addressing the carpenter from the seawaves 13129 because of an unpinned section of taff-rail 13130 we are not so ignorant as you think in the navy 13131 Gesell entered the Lindhauer government 13132 which lasted rather less than 5 days 13133 but was acquitted as an innocent stranger 13134 Oh yes, the money is there, 13135 il danaro c'è, said Pellegrini 13136 (very peculiar under the circs) 13137 musketeers rather more than 20 years later 13138 an old man (or oldish) still active [Page 443] 13139 serving small stones from a lath racquet 13140 under Taishan 13141 in sight of the tower che pende 13142 on such a litter rode Pontius 13143 under such canvass 13144 in the a.h. of the army 13145 in sight of two red cans labeled "FIRE" 13146 Said Von Tirpitz to his daughter: beware of their charm 13147 this cross turns with the sun 13148 and the goyim are undoubtedly in great numbers cattle 13149 whereas a jew will receive information 13150 he will gather up information 13151 faute de ... something more solid 13152 but not in all cases 13153 had appreciated his conversation 13154 possibly in the soft air 13155 with the mast held by the left hand 13156 in this air as of Kuanon 13157 enigma forgetting the times and seasons 13158 but this air brought her ashore a la marina 13159 with the great shell borne on the seawaves 13160 nautilis biancastra 13161 By no means an orderly Dantescan rising 13162 but as the winds veer 13163 tira libeccio 13164 now Genji at Suma , tira libeccio 13165 as the winds veer and the raft is driven 13166 and the voices , Tiro, Alcmene 13167 with you is Europa nec casta Pasiphaë 13168 Eurus, Apeliota as the winds veer in periplum 13169 Io son la luna" . Cunizza 13170 as the winds veer in periplum 13171 and from under the Rupe Tarpeia 13172 drunk with wine of the Castelli 13173 "in the name of its god" "Spiritus veni"
13175 "is not for the young" said Arry, stagirite 13176 but as grass under Zephyrus 13177 as the green blade under Apeliota 13178 Time is not, Time is the evil, beloved 13179 Beloved the hours 13180 as against the half-light of the window 13181 with the sea beyond making horizon 13182 le contre-jour the line of the cameo 13183 profile "to carve Achaia" 13184 a dream passing over the face in the half-light 13185 Venere, Cytherea "aut Rhodon" 13186 vento ligure, veni 13187 "beauty is difficult" sd/ Mr Beardsley 13188 and sd/ Mr Kettlewell looking up from a 13189 pseudo-Beardsley of his freshman composition 13190 and speaking to W. Lawrence: 13191 Pity you didn't finish the job 13192 while you were at it" 13193 W.L. having run into the future non-sovereign Edvardus 13194 on a bicycle equally freshman 13195 a.d. 1910 or about that 13196 beauty is difficult 13197 in the days of the Berlin to Bagdad project 13198 and of Tom L's photos of rock temples in Arabia Petra 13199 but he wd/ not talk of 13200 LL.G. and the frogbassador, he wanted to 13201 talk modern art (T.L. did) 13202 but of second rate, not the first rate 13203 beauty is difficult. 13204 He said I protested too much he wanted to start a press 13205 and print the greek classics.... periplum 13206 and the very very aged Snow created considerable 13207 hilarity quoting the ---- - 13208 in reply to l'aer tremare
13210 But on the other hand the President of Magdalen 13211 (rhyming dawdlin') said there were 13212 too many words in "The Hound of Heaven" 13213 a moddddun opohem he had read 13214 and there was no doubt that the dons lived well 13215 in the kawledg 13216 it was if I remember rightly the burn and freeze that the fresh- 13217 men 13218 had failed to follow 13219 or else a mere desire to titter etc. 13220 and it is (in parenthesis) doubtless 13221 easier to teach them to roar like gorillas 13222 than to scan 13223 inferior gorillas 13224 of course, lacking the wind sack 13225 and although Siki was quite observable 13226 we have not yet calculated the sum gorilla + bayonet 13227 and there was a good man named Burr 13228 descendant of Aaron during the other war 13229 who was amused by the British 13230 but he didn't last long AND 13231 Corporal Casey tells me that Stalin 13232 le bonhomme Staline 13233 has no sense of humour (dear Koba!) 13234 and old Rhys, Ernest, was a lover of beauty 13235 and when he was still engineer in a coal mine 13236 a man passed him at high speed radiant in the mine gallery 13237 his face shining with ecstasy 13238 "A'hv joost........ Tommy Luff." 13239 and as Luff was twice the fellow's size, Rhys was puzzled 13240 The Muses are daughters of memory 13241 Clio, Terpsichore 13242 and Granville was a lover of beauty 13243 and the three ladies all waited
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