The cantos of ezra pound [from The Cantos of Ezra Pound (1972)]
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6583 'The foundation, Siena, has been to keep bridle on usury.' 6584 Nicolò Piccolomini, Provveditore. [Page 229] XLV
6585 With Usura 6586 With usura hath no man a house of good stone 6587 each block cut smooth and well fitting 6588 that design might cover their face, 6589 with usura 6590 hath no man a painted paradise on his church wall 6591 harpes et luz 6592 or where virgin receiveth message 6593 and halo projects from incision, 6594 with usura 6595 seeth no man Gonzaga his heirs and his concubines 6596 no picture is made to endure nor to live with 6597 but it is made to sell and sell quickly 6598 with usura, sin against nature, 6599 is thy bread ever more of stale rags 6600 is thy bread dry as paper, 6601 with no mountain wheat, no strong flour 6602 with usura the line grows thick 6603 with usura is no clear demarcation 6604 and no man can find site for his dwelling. 6605 Stonecutter is kept from his stone 6606 weaver is kept from his loom 6607 WITH USURA 6608 wool comes not to market 6609 sheep bringeth no gain with usura 6610 Usura is a murrain, usura 6611 blunteth the needle in the maid's hand 6612 and stoppeth the spinner's cunning. Pietro Lombardo 6613 came not by usura 6614 Duccio came not by usura [Page 230] 6615 nor Pier della Francesca; Zuan Bellin' not by usura 6616 nor was 'La Calunnia' painted. 6617 Came not by usura Angelico; came not Ambrogio Praedis, 6618 Came no church of cut stone signed: Adamo me fecit. 6619 Not by usura St Trophime 6620 Not by usura Saint Hilaire, 6621 Usura rusteth the chisel 6622 It rusteth the craft and the craftsman 6623 It gnaweth the thread in the loom 6624 None learneth to weave gold in her pattern; 6625 Azure hath a canker by usura; cramoisi is unbroidered 6626 Emerald findeth no Memling 6627 Usura slayeth the child in the womb 6628 It stayeth the young man's courting 6629 It hath brought palsey to bed, lyeth 6630 between the young bride and her bridegroom 6631 CONTRA NATURAM 6632 They have brought whores for Eleusis 6633 Corpses are set to banquet 6634 at behest of usura. [6635] N.B. Usury: A charge for the use of purchasing power, levied without regard to production; often without regard to the possibilities of production. (Hence the failure of the Medici bank.)
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6636 And if you will say that this tale teaches ... 6637 a lesson, or that the Reverend Eliot 6638 has found a more natural language ... you who think 6639 you will 6640 get through hell in a hurry ... 6641 That day there was cloud over Zoagli 6642 And for three days snow cloud over the sea 6643 Banked like a line of mountains. 6644 Snow fell. Or rain fell stolid, a wall of lines 6645 So that you could see where the air stopped open 6646 and where the rain fell beside it 6647 Or the snow fell beside it. Seventeen 6648 Years on this case, nineteen years, ninety years 6649 on this case 6650 An' the fuzzy bloke sez (legs no pants ever wd. fit) 'IF 6651 that is so, any government worth a damn can 6652 pay dividends?' 6653 The major chewed it a bit and sez: 'Y---es, eh ... 6654 You mean instead of collectin' taxes?' 6655 'Instead of collecting taxes.' That office? 6656 Didja see the Decennio? 6657 ?
6658 Decennio exposition, reconstructed office of Il Popolo, 6659 Waal, ours waz like that, minus the Mills bomb an' the teapot, 6660 heavy lipped chap at the desk, 6661 One half green eye and one brown one, nineteen 6662 Years on this case, CRIME 6663 Ov two CENturies, 5 millions bein' killed off 6664 to 1919, and before that 6665 Debts of the South to New York, that is to the 6666 banks of the city, two hundred million,
6668 about slavery? 6669 Five million being killed off .. couple of Max's drawings, 6670 one of Balfour and a camel, an' 6671 one w'ich fer oBviOus reasons haz 6672 never been published, ole Johnny Bull with a 'ankerchief. 6673 It has never been published .. 6674 'He ain't got an opinion.' 6675 Sez Orage about G.B.S. sez Orage about Mr Xtertn. 6676 Sez Orage about Mr Wells, 'he wont HAVE an opinion 6677 trouble iz that you mean it, you never will be a journalist.' 6678 19 years on this case, suburban garden, 6679 'Greeks!' sez John Marmaduke 'a couple of art tricks! 6680 'What else? never could set up a NATION!' 6681 'Wouldn't convert me, dwn't HAVE me converted, 6682 'Said "I know I didn't ask you, your father sent you here 6683 "to be trained. I know what I'd feel. 6684 "send my son to England and have him come back a christian! 6685 "what wd. I feel?"' Suburban garden 6686 Said Abdul Baha: "I said 'let us speak of religion.' 6687 "Camel driver said: I must milk my camel. 6688 "So when he had milked his camel I said 'let us speak of religion.' 6689 And the camel driver said: It is time to drink milk. 6690 'Will you have some?' For politeness I tried to join him. 6691 Have you ever tasted milk from a camel? 6692 I was unable to drink camel's milk. I have never been able. 6693 So he drank all of the milk, and I said: let us speak of religion. 6694 'I have drunk my milk. I must dance.' said the driver. 6695 We did not speak of religion." Thus Abdul Baha 6696 Third vice-gerent of the First Abdul or whatever Baha, 6697 the Sage, the Uniter, the founder of a religion, 6698 in a garden at Uberton, Gubberton, or mebbe it was some 6699 other damned suburb, but at any rate a suburban suburb 6700 amid a flutter of teacups, said Mr Marmaduke: 6701 "Never will understand us. They lie. I mean personally
6703 "the tribal word will be kept, hence perpetual misunderstanding. 6704 "Englishman goes there, lives honest, word is reliable, 6705 "ten years, they believe him, then he signs terms for his 6706 government. 6707 "and, naturally, the treaty is broken, Mohammedans, 6708 "Nomads, will never understand how we do this." 6709 17 years on this case, and we not the first lot! 6710 Said Paterson: 6711 Hath benefit of interest on all 6712 the moneys which it, the bank, creates out of nothing. 6713 Semi-private inducement 6714 Said Mr RothSchild, hell knows which Roth-schild 6715 1861, '64 or there sometime, "Very few people 6716 "will understand this. Those who do will be occupied 6717 "getting profits. The general public will probably not 6718 "see it's against their interest." 6719 Seventeen years on the case; here 6720 Gents, is/are the confession. 6721 "Can we take this into court? 6722 "Will any jury convict on this evidence? 6723 1694 anno domini, on through the ages of usury 6724 On, right on, into hair-cloth, right on into rotten building, 6725 Right on into London houses, ground rents, foetid brick work, 6726 Will any jury convict 'um? The Foundation of Regius Professors 6727 Was made to spread lies and teach Whiggery, will any 6728 JURY convict 'um? 6729 The Macmillan Commission about two hundred and forty years 6730 LATE 6731 with great difficulty got back to Paterson's 6732 The bank makes it ex nihil 6733 Denied by five thousand professors, will any 6734 Jury convict 'um? This case, and with it 6735 the first part, draws to a conclusion, [Page 234] 6736 of the first phase of this opus, Mr Marx, Karl, did not 6737 foresee this conclusion, you have seen a good deal of 6738 the evidence, not knowing it evidence, is monumentum 6739 look about you, look, if you can, at St Peter's 6740 Look at the Manchester slums, look at Brazilian coffee 6741 or Chilean nitrates. This case is the first case 6742 Si requieres monumentum? 6743 This case is not the last case or the whole case, we ask a 6744 REVISION, we ask for enlightenment in a case 6745 moving concurrent, but this case is the first case: 6746 Bank creates it ex nihil. Creates it to meet a need, 6747 Hic est hyper-usura. Mr. Jefferson met it: 6748 No man hath natural right to exercise profession 6749 of lender, save him who hath it to lend. 6750 Replevin, estopple, what wangle which wangle, VanBuren met it. 6751 Before that was tea dumped into harbour, before that was a 6752 great deal still in the school books, placed there 6753 NOT as evidence. Placed there to distract idle minds, 6754 Murder, starvation and bloodshed, seventy four red revolutions 6755 Ten empires fell on this grease spot. 6756 'I rule the Earth' said Antoninus 'but LAW rules the sea' 6757 meaning, we take it, lex Rhodi, the Law Maritime 6758 of sea lawyers. 6759 usura and sea insurance 6760 where from no State was erected greater than Athens. 6761 Wanting TAXES to build St Peter's, thought Luther beneath 6762 civil notice, 6763 1527. Thereafter art thickened. Thereafter design went to hell, 6764 Thereafter barocco, thereafter stone-cutting desisted. 6765 'Hic nefas' (narrator) 'commune sepulchrum.' 6766 19 years on this case/first case. I have set down part of 6767 The Evidence. Part/commune sepulchrum 6768 Aurum est commune sepulchrum. Usura, commune sepulchrum.
6770 Hic Geryon est. Hic hyperusura. 6771 FIVE million youths without jobs 6772 FOUR million adult illiterates 6773 15 million 'vocational misfits', that is with small chance for jobs 6774 NINE million persons annual, injured in preventable industrial 6775 accidents 6776 One hundred thousand violent crimes. The Eunited States ov 6777 America 6778 3rd year of the reign of F. Roosevelt, signed F. Delano, his uncle. 6779 CASE for the prosecution. That is one case, minor case 6780 in the series/Eunited States of America, a.d. 1935 6781 England a worse case, France under a foetor of regents. 6782 'Mr Cummings wants Farley's job' headline in current paper. [Page 236] XLVII
6783 Who even dead, yet hath his mind entire! 6784 This sound came in the dark 6785 First must thou go the road 6786 to hell 6787 And to the bower of Ceres' daughter Proserpine, 6788 Through overhanging dark, to see Tiresias, 6789 Eyeless that was, a shade, that is in hell 6790 So full of knowing that the beefy men know less than he, 6791 Ere thou come to thy road's end. 6792 Knowledge the shade of a shade, 6793 Yet must thou sail after knowledge 6794 Knowing less than drugged beasts. phtheggometha 6795 thasson 6796
6797 The small lamps drift in the bay 6798 And the sea's claw gathers them. 6799 Neptunus drinks after neap-tide. 6800 Tamuz! Tamuz!! 6801 The red flame going seaward. 6802 By this gate art thou measured. 6803 From the long boats they have set lights in the water, 6804 The sea's claw gathers them outward. 6805 Scilla's dogs snarl at the cliff's base, 6806 The white teeth gnaw in under the crag, 6807 But in the pale night the small lamps float seaward 6808
6809 TU DIONA 6810
6811 Kai MOIRAI' ADONIN 6812 The sea is streaked red with Adonis, 6813 The lights flicker red in small jars.
6815 flower from the swift seed. 6816 Two span, two span to a woman, 6817 Beyond that she believes not. Nothing is of any importance. 6818 To that is she bent, her intention 6819 To that art thou called ever turning intention, 6820 Whether by night the owl-call, whether by sap in shoot, 6821 Never idle, by no means by no wiles intermittent 6822 Moth is called over mountain 6823 The bull runs blind on the sword, naturans 6824 To the cave art thou called, Odysseus, 6825 By Molü hast thou respite for a little, 6826 By Molü art thou freed from the one bed 6827 that thou may'st return to another 6828 The stars are not in her counting, 6829 To her they are but wandering holes. 6830 Begin thy plowing 6831 When the Pleiades go down to their rest, 6832 Begin thy plowing 6833 40 days are they under seabord, 6834 Thus do in fields by seabord 6835 And in valleys winding down toward the sea. 6836 When the cranes fly high 6837 think of plowing. 6838 By this gate art thou measured 6839 Thy day is between a door and a door 6840 Two oxen are yoked for plowing 6841 Or six in the hill field 6842 White bulk under olives, a score for drawing down stone, 6843 Here the mules are gabled with slate on the hill road. 6844 Thus was it in time. 6845 And the small stars now fall from the olive branch, 6846 Forked shadow falls dark on the terrace 6847 More black than the floating martin 6848 that has no care for your presence,
6850 And the print is gone with his cry. 6851 So light is thy weight on Tellus 6852 Thy notch no deeper indented 6853 Thy weight less than the shadow 6854 Yet hast thou gnawed through the mountain, 6855 Scylla's white teeth less sharp. 6856 Hast thou found a nest softer than cunnus 6857 Or hast thou found better rest 6858 Hast'ou a deeper planting, doth thy death year 6859 Bring swifter shoot? 6860 Hast thou entered more deeply the mountain? 6861 The light has entered the cave. Io! Io! 6862 The light has gone down into the cave, 6863 Splendour on splendour! 6864 By prong have I entered these hills: 6865 That the grass grow from my body, 6866 That I hear the roots speaking together, 6867 The air is new on my leaf, 6868 The forked boughs shake with the wind. 6869 Is Zephyrus more light on the bough, Apeliota 6870 more light on the almond branch? 6871 By this door have I entered the hill. 6872 Falleth, 6873 Adonis falleth. 6874 Fruit cometh after. The small lights drift out with the tide, 6875 sea's claw has gathered them outward, 6876 Four banners to every flower 6877 The sea's claw draws the lamps outward. 6878 Think thus of thy plowing 6879 When the seven stars go down to their rest 6880 Forty days for their rest, by seabord 6881 And in valleys that wind down toward the sea
6883 KAI MOIRAI' ADONIN 6884 When the almond bough puts forth its flame, 6885 When the new shoots are brought to the altar, 6886 , 6887 TU DIONA, KAI MOIRAI 6888 6889 KAI MOIRAI' ADONIN 6890 that hath the gift of healing, 6891 that hath the power over wild beasts. [Page 240] XLVIII
6892 And if the money be rented 6893 Who shd pay rent on that money? 6894 Some fellow who has it on rent day, 6895 or some bloke who has not? 6896 Died Mahomet VIth Yahid Eddin Han 6897 'by profession ex-sultan' 6898 65 years of age in San Remo (1926) 6899 begotten of Abdul Mejid. At beatification 6900 80 loud speakers were used. Subsequent to the 6901 Turkish war Mr Kolschitzky 6902 received for his services as a spy 6903 five score sacks of coffee (de Banchiis cambi tenendi) 6904 thus initiating the coffee-house facts of Vienna 6905 sixteen hundred, I think, and whenever; Von Unruh 6906 is rather good at imitating the sergeant 6907 who jammed down the cadavers; there were cadavers 6908 and the pit was not large enough to hold all the kadavers 6909 so the sergeant jammed 'em down with his boots 6910 to get the place smooth for the Kaiser. 6911 Herr Von Unruh is rather good at miming that sergeant 6912 vice Verdun; and what he wrote down; at Verdun. 6913 Said Mr Charles Francis Adams 6914 there was no good conversation. At no single entertainment 6915 in London did I find any good conversation 6916 They take Browning for an American, 6917 he is unenglish in his opinions and carriage. 6919 Van Buren having written it down 6920 'deface and obliterate' wrote J. Adams 6921 'become fathers of the next generation' wrote Marx 6922 .. tuberculosis ... Bismarck
6924 particularly on the Rothschild 6925 one of whom remarked to Disraeli 6926 that nations were fools to pay rent for their credit 6927 6928 DIGONOS; lost in the forest; but are then known as leopards 6929 after three years in the forest; they are known as 'twice-born'. 6930 I am sorry, Your Highness Cawdor, Sept 23 6931 To have been so long in returning the 6932 pedigree of yr cairn puppy 6933 but when I wrote to the man you bought him from 6934 I received a reply from his wife (or daughter) 6935 saying he had just gone on a holiday 6936 and that he wd write me when he returned. 6937 I find Dhu Achil (sire) has been registered 6938 at the Kennel Club, but the dam is unregistered. 6939 Dhu Achil has won a fair number of prizes at Scottish Shows 6940 and there are some other good dogs in the pedigree 6941 (three senators; four bottles of whiskey) 6942 so the puppy seems quite well bred (and at) 6943 For the sake of convenience I will write particulars 6944 (four o'clock in the morning Mr Rhumby) 6945 on a separate sheet of paper 6946 (waz Sekkertary) The little dog is doing 6947 (Ov State) very well at Mr McLocherty's and is quite happy. 6948 They are very fond of him and he is a most affectionate dog 6949 Yours respectfully 6950 Galileo; pronounced 'Garry Yeo' 6951 err' un' imbecille; ed ha imbecillito 6952 (voice under my window) il mondo 6953 No trustee of the Salem Museum, who had not doubled 6954 both Good Hope and The Horn. 6955 Sea as if risen over the headland 6956 and there are twin seas in the cloud 6957 12% interest in Bithynia;
6959 said Athelstan who has not made three voyages 6960 going hence off this land into other lands as a merchant 6961 'A little more stock' said the president over the telephone 6962 To the printer 'we sold all that what you printed us' 6963 So the bond salesman went abroad. 6964 They say, that is the Norse engineer told me, that out past Hawaii 6965 they spread threads from gun'ale to gun'ale 6966 in a certain fashion 6967 and plot a course of 3000 sea miles 6968 lying under the web, watching the stars 6969 'while she bought 2 prs of shoes 6970 2 veils; 2 parasols; an orchid (artificial) 6971 for which I was presented with a new kind of net gloves 6972 made like fishnet; so the day was not wholly wasted 6973 The priest here 6974 had una nuova messa 6975 (dodicesimo anno E.F.) 6976 bella festa, because there was a priest here to say his 6977 first mass 6978 and all the mountains were full of fires, and 6979 we went around through the village 6980 in giro per il paese 6981 2 men and 2 horses 6982 and then the music and on the sides 6983 children carrying torches and the 6984 carrozze with the priests, and the one that had to say 6985 the new mass, and the carrozze were full of fine flowers 6986 and there were a lot of people. I liked it, 6987 all the houses were full of lights and 6988 tree branches in the windows 6989 covered with hand-made flowers and 6990 the next day they had mass and a procession 6991 Please may I go back there 6992 and have a new pair of Sunday shoes?'
6994 clambers, a ball, into its orchis 6995 and the stair there still broken 6996 the flat stones of the road, Mt Segur. 6997 From Val Cabrere, were two miles of roofs to San Bertrand 6998 so that a cat need not set foot in the road 6999 where now is an inn, and bare rafters, 7000 where they scratch six feet deep to reach pavement 7001 where now is wheat field, and a milestone 7002 an altar to Terminus, with arms crossed 7003 back of the stone 7004 Where sun cuts light against evening; 7005 where light shaves grass into emerald 7006 Savairic; hither Gaubertz; 7007 Said they wd. not be under Paris 7008 Falling Mars in the air 7009 bough to bough, to the stone bench 7010 where was an ox in smith's sling hoisted for shoeing 7011 where was spire-top a-level the grass yard 7012 Then the towers, high over chateau--- 7013 Fell with stroke after stroke, jet avenger 7014 bent, rolled, severed and then swallowed limb after limb 7015 Hauled off the butt of that carcass, 20 feet up a tree trunk, 7016 Here three ants have killed a great worm. There 7017 Mars in the air, fell, flew. 7018 Employed, past tense; at the Lido, Venezia 7019 an old man with a basket of stones, 7020 that was, said the elderly lady, when the beach costumes 7021 were longer, 7022 and if the wind was, the old man placed a stone. [Page 244] XLIX
7023 For the seven lakes, and by no man these verses: 7024 Rain; empty river; a voyage, 7025 Fire from frozen cloud, heavy rain in the twilight 7026 Under the cabin roof was one lantern. 7027 The reeds are heavy; bent; 7028 and the bamboos speak as if weeping. 7029 Autumn moon; hills rise about lakes 7030 against sunset 7031 Evening is like a curtain of cloud, 7032 a blurr above ripples; and through it 7033 sharp long spikes of the cinnamon, 7034 a cold tune amid reeds. Yüklə 2,9 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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