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17378 M. Hottinguer à Paris

17379 Vicountess Barrington. Lady Bloomfield

17380 defended by Thesiger and other eminent counsel

17381 and they got 14 years transportation,

17382 The sub-treasury was revived.

17383 Louis Philippe wd/ not let them cut down their notes to 200.

17384 From '34 to '41 our specie rose to 100 million,

17385 "ad valorem" involving a horde of appraisers.

17386 Wright spoke to mind not to passions and

17387 he it was brought in Polk.

17388 Quiditas, remarked D. Alighieri.

17389 Under head of "medicine": whiskey, coal, harness,

17390 hay, corn, stoves, beef & mutton.

17391


17392 Frémont, with small arms and one howitzer,

17393 So that after two hours entered der Schwiegersohn,

17394 considered the family's low in intelligence:

17395 "Was sagt er?"

17396 Herr Marcher: Der Jud will Geld.
[Page 601]
17397 "Neither by force nor by fraud, that there be

17398 no coercion, either by force or by fraud,

17399 That is law's purpose, or should be.

17400 ' swung the hung jury

17401 [Image] tuan, there are four of them.

17402 [Image] chen, beyond ataraxia


17403 From Charlemagne's grain price, Venice, Hansa,

17404 to the forged Donation "of Constantine"

17405 "Perchè in ordine?" (vuol metter le sue idee)

17406 said Mussolini.

17407 Thalers from Maria Teresa,

17408 a road still there in Belgium.

17409 The Emperor's furrow,

17410 Antoninus: Law rules the sea,

17411 meaning Lex Rhodi,

17412 they mixed in money rent, and insurance,

17413 This section is labled: Rock Drill.

17414 Wd/ have packed Hamburg with grain. Bülow believed him

17415 And to young Windsor we owe three years' peace.

17416 "What he meant to us in those days"

17417 said old Image (Selwyn) referring to Ruskin.

17418 Tasso, Kidd, Raleigh, all jailed.

17419 My father (General Frémont) said that if anyone shot Napoleon

17420 it ought not to be from his (Frémont's) window.

17421 My grandfather boosted Morse' telegraph.
[Page 602]
17422 "Pige-moi le type" said old Gustav

17423 qui vous peindra un fauteuil carthaginois.

17424 Henry J. had Coburn take photographs.

17425 I need add nothing, wrote Van Buren, to the description

17426 by Col. Benton.

17427 "Good-bye Tazewell, good-by Van Buren!"

17428 (that was Randolph)

17429 "on borrowed capital, very unmercantile,"

17430 said John Adams.

17431 Judge Marshall, father of war.

17432 Agamemnon killed that stag, against hunting rites.

17433 "Leave the Duke, go for gold."

17434 And they forged those thalers, in our time,

17435 quest'oggi.

17436 Brits did, nacherly Brits did.

17437 "Benton has begun understanding me"

17438 (Randolph)

17439 In Venice the bread price was stable,

17440 ship models still there in Danzig.

17441 Alex said: set up the tables,

17442 any soldier's note will be paid.

17443 Gold was under the Pontifex,

17444 Caesar usurped that.

17445 Bezants were stable till Dandolo broke into Stamboul,

17446 there had been some arab uneasiness.

17447 The forgery was from ignorance,

17448 Valla found it.

17449 12 to one, Roma, and about half that in Karachi.

17450 And the Portagoose, as we cease not to mention,

17451 uprooted spice trees


[Page 603]
17452 Orage remarked on the "recession of power"

17453 Uncle George said he knew when he came out

17454 (Lodge, Knox) that there wd/ be one hell of a row in the Se-

17455 nate.

17456 "offensive, defensive"

17457 and there was one.

17458 "50 mocking birds, 40 robins," wrote Randolph.

17459 and "construe all our liberties from us"

17460 Mazzini: Doveri

17461 " "

17462 N' Yoleanz syrop proof 8

17463 West Indies is at 16 ...

17464 Not that I object to morality.

17465 Yes, it was Catron, had already told Jackson.

17466 "Shd/have shot Clay and hung John Calhoun."

17467 A. J's sole repentence.

17468 And of Antoninus very little record remains.

17469 semina motuum [Image]

17470 Deluged the old hawk at Rip Raps,

17471 Mr Biddle pinching the baby,

17472 "You damn sadist!" said mr cummings,

17473 "you try to make people think."

17474 "Yes, Mr Van Buren, the Bank IS

17475 trying to kill me."

17476 Mr Taney's statement was never refuted. Aug. '33

17477 And as to expunging?

17478 that is perhaps prose,

17479 you can find it in Benton.

17480 Securing his (A. J's) admiration by the majesty
[Page 604]
17481 of his (Dante's) in'elect.

17482 "No civilization" said Knittl,

17483 "they got no stone". (Hrooshia)

17484 Make distress, on system, in order to use it.

17485 "The angrier, the cooler he (Benton) became."

17486 We have had one "assumption".

17487 English debt could have been paid by the time of George

17488 Second.

17489 they prefer to send it down to posterity.

17490 And when "EXPUNGED", A. J. sent back the bullet,

17491 which is, I suppose, part of parliamentary history

17492 dull or not, as you choose to regard it.

17493 I want Frémont looking at mountains

17494 or, if you like, Reck, at Lake Biwa,


[Page 605]

XC


Animus humanus amor non est,

sed ab ipso amor procedit, et

ideo seipso non diligit, sed amore

qui seipso procedit.

17495 "From the colour the nature

17496 & by the nature the sign!"

17497 Beatific spirits welding together

17498 as in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.

17499 Baucis, Philemon.

17500 Castalia is the name of that fount in the hill's fold,

17501 the sea below,

17502 narrow beach.

17503 Templum aedificans, not yet marble,

17504 "Amphion!"

17505 And from the San Ku [Image]

17506 [Image]

17507 to the room in Poitiers where one can stand

17508 casting no shadow,

17509 That is Sagetrieb,

17510 that is tradition.

17511 Builders had kept the proportion,

17512 did Jacques de Molay

17513 know these porportions?

17514 and was Erigena ours?

17515 Moon's barge over milk-blue water
[Page 606]
17516 Kuthera

17517 Kuthera sempiterna

17518 Ubi amor, ibi oculus.

17519 Vae qui cogitatis inutile.

17520 quam in nobis similitudine divinae

17521 reperetur imago.

17522 "Mother Earth in thy lap"

17523 said Randolph

17524

17525 liberavit masnatos.



17526 Castalia like the moonlight

17527 and the waves rise and fall,

17528 Evita, beer-halls, semina motuum,

17529 to parched grass, now is rain

17530 not arrogant from habit,

17531 but furious from perception,

17532 Sibylla,

17533 from under the rubble heap

17534 m'elevasti

17535 from the dulled edge beyond pain,

17536 m'elevasti

17537 out of Erebus, the deep-lying

17538 from the wind under the earth,

17539 m'elevasti

17540 from the dulled air and the dust,

17541 m'elevasti

17542 by the great flight,

17543 m'elevasti,

17544 Isis Kuanon

17545 from the cusp of the moon,

17546 m'elevasti
[Page 607]
17547 the viper stirs in the dust,

17548 the blue serpent

17549 glides from the rock pool

17550 And they take lights now down to the water

17551 the lamps float from the rowers

17552 the sea's claw drawing them outward.

17553 "De fondo" said Juan Ramon,

17554 like a mermaid, upward,

17555 but the light perpendicular, upward

17556 and to Castalia,

17557 water jets from the rock

17558 and in the flat pool as Arethusa's

17559 a hush in papyri.

17560 Grove hath its altar

17561 under elms, in that temple, in silence

17562 a lone nymph by the pool.

17563 Wei and Han rushing together

17564 two rivers together

17565 bright fish and flotsam

17566 torn bough in the flood

17567 and the waters clear with the flowing

17568 Out of heaviness where no mind moves at all

17569 "birds for the mind" said Richardus,

17570 "beasts as to body, for know-how"

17571 Gaio! Gaio!

17572 To Zeus with the six seraphs before him

17573 The architect from the painter,

17574 the stone under elm

17575 Taking form now,

17576 the rilievi,

17577 the curled stone at the marge
[Page 608]
17578 Faunus, sirenes,

17579 the stone taking form in the air

17580 ac ferae,

17581 cervi,

17582 the great cats approaching.

17583 Pardus, leopardi, Bagheera

17584 drawn hither from woodland,

17585 woodland

17586 the trees rise

17587 and there is a wide sward between them

17588 myrrh and olibanum on the altar stone

17589 giving perfume,

17590 and where was nothing

17591 now is furry assemblage

17592 and in the boughs now are voices

17593 grey wing, black wing, black wing shot with crimson

17594 and the umbrella pines

17595 as in Palatine,

17596 as in pineta. ,

17597 For the procession of Corpus

17598 come now banners

17599 comes flute tone

17600

17601 to new forest,



17602 thick smoke, purple, rising

17603 bright flame now on the altar

17604 the crystal funnel of air

17605 out of Erebus, the delivered,

17606 Tyro, Alcmene, free now, ascending

17607 e i cavalieri,

17608 ascending,

17609 no shades more,


[Page 609]
17610 lights among them, enkindled,

17611 and the dark shade of courage

17612 '

17613 bowed still with the wrongs of Aegisthus.



17614 Trees die & the dream remains

17615 Not love but that love flows from it

17616 ex animo

17617 & cannot ergo delight in itself

17618 but only in the love flowing from it.

17619 UBI AMOR IBI OCULUS EST.


[Page 610]

XCI
17620 [Image]

17621 ab lo dolchor qu'al cor mi vai

17622 [Image]

17623 AB LO DOLCHOR QU'AL COR MI VAI

17624 that the body of light come forth

17625 from the body of fire

17626 And that your eyes come to the surface

17627 from the deep wherein they were sunken,

17628 Reina---for 300 years,

17629 and now sunken

17630 That your eyes come forth from their caves

17631 & light then

17632 as the holly-leaf

17633 qui laborat, orat

17634 Thus Undine came to the rock,

17635 by Circeo

17636 and the stone eyes again looking seaward

17637 Thus Apollonius

17638 (if it was Apollonius)

17639 & Helen of Tyre

17640 by Pithagoras

17641 by Ocellus

17642 (pilot-fish, et libidinis expers, of Tyre;


[Page 611]
17643 Justinian, Theodora

17644 from brown leaf and twig

17645 The GREAT CRYSTAL

17646 doubling the pine, and to cloud.

17647 pensar di lieis m'es ripaus

17648 Miss Tudor moved them with galleons

17649 from deep eye, versus armada

17650 from the green deep

17651 he saw it,

17652 in the green deep of an eye:

17653 Crystal waves weaving together toward the gt/

17654 healing

17655 Light compenetrans of the spirits

17656 The Princess Ra-Set has climbed

17657 to the great knees of stone,

17658 She enters protection,

17659 the great cloud is about her,

17660 She has entered the protection of crystal

17661 convien che si mova

17662 la mente, amando

17663 XXVI, 34

17664 Light & the flowing crystal

17665 never gin in cut glass had such clarity

17666 That Drake saw the splendour and wreckage

17667 in that clarity

17668 Gods moving in crystal

17669 ichor, amor

17670 Secretary of Nature, J. Heydon.

17671 Here Apollonius, Heydon

17672 hither Ocellus

17673 "to this khan"
[Page 612]
17674 The golden sun boat

17675 by oar, not by sail

17676 Love moving the stars

17677 by the altar slope

17678 "Tamuz! Tamuz!"

17679 They set lights now in the sea

17680 and the sea's claw gathers them outward.

17681 The peasant wives hide cocoons now

17682 under their aprons

17683 for Tamuz

17684 That the sun's silk
17685 hsien [Image] tensile
17686 be clear
17687 That Drake saw the armada

17688 & sea caves

17689 Ra-Set over crystal

17690 [Image] moving

17691 in the Queen's eye the reflection

17692 & sea-wrack---

17693 green deep of the sea-cave

17694 ne quaesaris.

17695 He asked not

17696 nor wavered, seeing, nor had fear of the wood-queen, Artemis

17697 that is Diana

17698 nor had killed save by the hunting rite,

17699 sanctus.

17700 Thus sang it:

17701 Leafdi Diana, leove Diana
[Page 613]
17702 Heye Diana, help me to neode

17703 Witte me thurh crafte

17704 whuder ich maei lidhan

17705 to wonsom londe.

17706 Rome th'ilke tyme was noght.

17707 So that he spread a deer-hide near the altar,

17708 Now Lear in Janus' temple is laid

17709 [Image] timing the thunder

17710 Nor Constance hath his hood again,

17711 Merlin's fader may no man know

17712 Merlin's moder is made a nun.

17713 Lord, thaet scop the dayes lihte,

17714 all that she knew was a spirit bright,

17715 A movement that moved in cloth of gold

17716 into her chamber.

17717 "By the white dragon, under a stone

17718 Merlin's fader is known to none."

17719 Lay me by Aurelie, at the east end of Stonehenge

17720 where lie my kindred

17721 Over harm

17722 Over hate

17723 overflooding, light over light

17724 And yilden he gon rere

17725 (Athelstan before a. D. 940)

17726 the light flowing, whelming the stars.

17727 In the barge of Ra-Set

17728 On river of crystal

17729 So hath Sibile a boken isette.

17730 Democracies electing their sewage
[Page 614]
17731 till there is no clear thought about holiness

17732 a dung flow from 1913

17733 and, in this, their kikery functioned, Marx, Freud

17734 and the american beaneries

17735 Filth under filth,

17736 Maritain, Hutchins,

17737 or as Benda remarked: "La trahison"

17738 and damn all

17739 I wd/ like to see Verona again

17740 "ecco il tè"

17741 said the head waiter---

17742 en calcaire, quarante quattre gradins,

17743 "Dodici Apostoli" (trattoria)

17744 and the affable putana wanting to adjust the spelling of Guido

17745 as it is not in the "Capitolare".

17746 "Come rassembra al martire! sd/ the piccolo

17747 "there were french here,

17748 but they found some dead in the street one morning,

17749 they did not come back again"

17750 (That was that war. Battista martire)

17751 in Ortolo, San Zeno, San Pietro

17752 and the hell-cats,

17753 "quel naszhong" said the gamin to Ed

17754 re/ the bronze doors of San Zeno

17755 "buy columns now by the gross"

17756 as for the four porphery

17757 with the stone-loop.

17758 Nanni (Torquato) did 3 years with Battista

17759 and wasn't shot till after Salò.

17760 Threw himself in front of a friend (Arpinati)

17761 but cd/ not save him.
[Page 615]
17762 Farinata pudg'd still there in the cloister,

17763 Can Grande's grin like Tommy Cochran's, pleno d'alegreça.

17764 Rapunzel did not.

17765 And as donors: Adah Lee, Ida

17766 (for an altar piece)

17767 narrow lace at her collar in mourning.

17768 "A spirit in cloth of gold"

17769 so Merlin's moder said,

17770 or did not say,

17771 left the quidity

17772 but remembered

17773 & from fire to crystal

17774 via the body of light,

17775 the gold wings assemble

17776 That Rhea's lions protect her

17777 (to the tough guy Musonius: honour)

17778 Rose, azure,

17779 the lights slow moving round her,

17780 Zephyrus, turning,

17781 the petals light on the air.

17782 Bright hawk whom no hood shall chain,

17783 They who are skilled in fire


17784 shall read [Image] tan the dawn.

17785 Waiving no jot of the arcanum

17786 (having his own mind to stand by him)

17787 As the sea-gull said to Odysseus

17788 KADMOU THUGATER

17789 "get rid of parapernalia"

17790 TLEMOUSUNE
[Page 616]
17791 And that even in the time of Domitian

17792 one young man declined to be buggar'd.

17793 "Is this a bath-house?"

17794


17795 "Or a Court House?"

17796 Asked Apollonius

17797 who spoke to the lion

17798 charitas insuperabilis

17799 to ascend those high places

17800 wrote Heydon

17801 stirring and changeable

17802 "light fighting for speed"

17803 and if honour and pleasure will not be ruled

17804 yet the mind come to that High City ...

17805 who with Pythagoras at Taormina

17806 Souls be the water-nymphs of Porphyrius

17807

17808 Formality. Heydon polluted. Apollonius unpolluted



17809 and the whole creation concerned with "FOUR"

17810 "my bikini is worth your raft"

17811 And there be who say there is no road to felicity

17812 tho' swallows eat celandine

17813 "before my eyes into the aether of Nature"

17814 The water-bug's mittens

17815 petal the rock beneath,

17816 The natrix glides sapphire into the rock-pool.

17817 NUTT overarching

17818 "mand'io a la Pinella"

17819 sd/ Guido

17820 "a river",


[Page 617]
17821 "Ghosts dip in the crystal,

17822 adorned"

17823 That the tone change from elegy

17824 "Et Jehanne"

17825 (the Lorraine girl)

17826 A lost kind of experience?

17827 scarcely,

17828 O Queen Cytherea,

17829 che 'l terzo ciel movete.
[Page 618]

XCII
17830 And from this Mount were blown

17831 seed

17832 and that every plant hath its seed

17833 so will the weasel eat rue,

17834 and the swallows nip celandine

17835 and as engraven on gold, to be unity

17836 but duality, brass

17837 and trine to mercurial

17838 shall a tetrad be silver

17839 with the smoke of nutmeg and frankincense

17840 and from this a sea-change?

17841 And honour?

17842 Fitzgerald: "I was."

17843 When he freed a man

17844 who had not been at the Post Office

17845 (Oireland 1916) or "Signori,

17846 Io facevo la sentinella?

17847 O non facevo la sentinella?"

17848 accused of not taking cover during bombardment.

17849 "Gran dispitto."

17850 "A chi stima ..."

17851 (Guicciardini)

17852 ... l'onore assai"

17853 & from pool of the silver circlet

17854 is calm as the sapphire

17855 Ra-Set in her barge now

17856 over deep sapphire


[Page 619]
17857 but the child played under wave ...

17858 e piove d'amor

17859 in nui

17860 a great river, the ghosts dipping in crystal

17861 & to Pinella ...

17862 But "Her love" sd/ Hewlett

17863 "like a cage hath bars

17864 that break my head, seeking to touch the stars."

17865 To another the rain fell as of silver.

17866 La Luna Regina.

17867 Not gold as in Ecbatan

17868 O Anubis, guard this portal

17869 as the cellula, Mont Ségur.

17870 Sanctus

17871 that no blood sully this altar

17872 ex aquis nata

17873

17874 "in questa lumera appresso"



17875 Folquet, nel terzo cielo.

17876 "And if I see her not,

17877 no sight is worth the beauty of my thought."

17878 Then knelt with the sphere of crystal

17879 That she should touch with her hands,

17880 Coeli Regina,

17881 The four altars at the four coigns of that place,

17882 But in the great love, bewildered

17883 farfalla in tempesta

17884 under rain in the dark:

17885 many wings fragile

17886 Nymphalidae, basilarch, and lycaena,

17887 Ausonides, euchloe, and erynnis
[Page 620]
17888 And from far

17889 il tremolar della marina

17890 chh chh

17891 the pebbles turn with the wave

17892 chh ch'u

17893 "fui chiamat'

17894 e qui refulgo"

17895 Le Paradis n'est pas artificiel

17896 but is jagged,

17897 For a flash,

17898 for an hour.

17899 Then agony,

17900 then an hour,

17901 then agony,

17902 Hilary stumbles, but the Divine Mind is abundant

17903 unceasing

17904 improvisatore

17905 Omniformis

17906 unstill

17907 and that the lice turned from the manifest;

17908 overlooking the detail

17909 and their filth now observes mere dynamic;

17910 That the Pontifex ceased to be holy

17911 ---that was in Caesar's time---

17912 who was buggar'd

17913 and the coin ceased to be holy,

17914 and, of course,

17915 they worshiped the emperor.

17916 Margarethe von Taufers

17917 and Uncle Carlo

17918 both tried a clean-up,
[Page 621]
17919 hence, in a way, the Rimini bas-reliefs

17920 and Semele's personality shot to atoms.

17921 Even you were happy last Wednesday.

17922 "Io porto"

17923 sd/ Delcroix

17924 "la cecità" for I forget how many

17925 ten thousand Italians.

17926 "Two evils:

17927 usury in the bank rot

17928 & theft in les soc/ anonymes".

17929 Grabbed his phone and called un ministro.

17930 Bottai also phoned Torino

17931 instanter, to dig out Vivaldi,

17932 And ministri went to the fighting line

17933 as did old Marinetti

17934 "Hans Sachs"

17935 sd/ Schnitz Brandt

17936 "war ein Schuh-

17937 macher und poet dazu."

17938 Yet, having seen the armada

17939 turn back?

17940 That wd/ scarcely ... from sea-caves

17941 300 years.

17942 Nein! aber in Wolken.

17943 And against usury


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