The cantos of ezra pound [from The Cantos of Ezra Pound (1972)]
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7035 Behind hill the monk's bell 7036 borne on the wind. 7037 Sail passed here in April; may return in October 7038 Boat fades in silver; slowly; 7039 Sun blaze alone on the river. 7040 Where wine flag catches the sunset 7041 Sparse chimneys smoke in the cross light 7042 Comes then snow scur on the river 7043 And a world is covered with jade 7044 Small boat floats like a lanthorn, 7045 The flowing water clots as with cold. And at San Yin 7046 they are a people of leisure. 7047 Wild geese swoop to the sand-bar, 7048 Clouds gather about the hole of the window 7049 Broad water; geese line out with the autumn 7050 Rooks clatter over the fishermen's lanthorns, [Page 245] 7051 A light moves on the north sky line; 7052 where the young boys prod stones for shrimp. 7053 In seventeen hundred came Tsing to these hill lakes. 7054 A light moves on the south sky line. 7055 State by creating riches shd. thereby get into debt? 7056 This is infamy; this is Geryon. 7057 This canal goes still to TenShi 7058 though the old king built it for pleasure 7059 KEI MEN RAN KEI 7060 KIU MAN MAN KEI 7061 JITSU GETSU KO KWA 7062 TAN FUKU TAN KAI 7063 Sun up; work 7064 sundown; to rest 7065 dig well and drink of the water 7066 dig field; eat of the grain 7067 Imperial power is? and to us what is it? 7068 The fourth; the dimension of stillness. 7069 And the power over wild beasts.
L 7070 Revolution' said Mr Adams 'took place in the 7071 minds of the people 7072 in the fifteen years before Lexington', 7073 That wd have been in Peter Leopold's time 7074 to his Lordship the Count Orso and his descendants 7075 male legitimate and natural the administration of 7076 civil and criminal justice in the said place 7077 debt when the Medici took the throne was 5 million 7078 and when they left was fourteen 7079 and its interest ate up all the best income 7080 the first folly was planting factories for wool spinning 7081 in England and Flanders 7082 then England kept her raw wool, so that 7083 damped down the exchanging 7084 the arts gone to hell by 1750 7085 and Leopoldo cut down the taxes 7086 found there was 'Un' abbondanza che affamava' 7087 says Zobi 7088 Leopold cut down the debt interest 7089 and put the Jesuits out 7090 and put end to the Inquisition 7091 1782 7092 and they brought in Mr Locke's 7093 essay on interest 7094 but Genoa took our trade and Livorno 7095 kept treaty with England to the loss of Livorno 7096 that is to say Livorno trade took a loss 7097 Te, admirabile, O VashinnnTTonn! 7098 Livorno stuff went in Genovese bottoms [Page 247] 7099 because Tuscany kept her word and a treaty 7100 Voi, popoli transatlantici admirabili! 7101 saith Zobi, sixty years later. 7102 'Pardon our brief digression' saith Zobi: 7103 America is our daughter and VashiNNtonn had civic virtues. 7104 and Leopoldo meant to cut off two thirds of state debt, 7105 to abolish it 7106 and then they sent him off to be Emperor 7107 in hell's bog, in the slough of Vienna, in 7108 the midden of Europe in the black hole of all 7109 mental vileness, in the privvy that stank Franz Josef, 7110 in Metternich's merdery in the absolute rottenness, 7111 among embastardized cross-breeds, 7112 But Ferdinando staved off an Anschluss and Paris exploded 7113 'certain practices called religious' said Zobi 7114 'lack of experience in economic affairs' 7115 Pius sixth, vicar of foolishness, no Jew God 7116 wd. have kept THAT in power. 7117 So that about the time of MARENGO the First Consul 7118 wrote: I left peace. I find war. 7119 I find enemies inside yr frontier 7120 Your cannon sold to yr enemies 7121 1791, end of representative government 7122 18th Brumale, 10th of November 7123 14th. June, 1800 MARENGO 7124 Mars meaning, in that case, order 7125 That day was Right with the victor 7126 mass weight against wrong 7127 a.d. 1800 7128 interest at 24 to the hundred 7129 and as they say 'commerce languished' 7130 1801 the triumvirs wanted to go Leopoldine as was. 7131 A thousand of the old guard at Portoferraio
7133 reversable to the Empress 7134 from Elba 7135 for the mildness of the climate 7136 and the suavity of its denizens 7137 from an English frigate descended 7138 And Ferdinando Habsburg (but of the House of Lorraine) 7139 which is the true name of the clean part of that family 7140 got back a state free of debt 7141 coffers empty 7142 but the state without debt 7143 England and Austria were for despots with commerce 7144 considered 7145 put back the Pope but 7146 reset no republics: Venice, Genova, Lucca 7147 and split up Poland in their soul was usura 7148 and in their hand bloody oppression 7149 and that son of a dog, Rospigliosi, 7150 came into Tuscany to make serfs of old Tuscans. 7151 S..t on the throne of England, s..t on the Austrian sofa 7152 In their soul was usura and in their minds darkness 7153 and blankness, greased fat were four Georges 7154 Pus was in Spain, Wellington was a jew's pimp 7155 and lacked mind to know what he effected. 7156 'Leave the Duke, Go for gold!' 7157 In their souls was usura and in their hearts cowardice 7158 In their minds was stink and corruption 7159 Two sores ran together, 7160 and hell pissed up Metternich 7161 Filth stank as in our day 7162 'From the brigantine Incostante' 7163 for a hundred days against hell belch 7164 Hope spat from March into June 7165 Ney out of his saddle [Page 249] 7166 Grouchy delayed 7167 Bentinck's word was, naturally, 7168 not kept by the English. Genova under Sardegna. Hope 7169 spat from Cannes, March, into Flanders. 7170 'Not' 7171 said Napoleon 'because of that league of lice 7172 but for opposing the Zeitgeist! That was my ruin, 7173 That I ran against my own time, turning backward' 7174 OBIT, aetatis 57, five hundred years after D. Alighieri. 7175 Not, certainly, for what most embellishes il sesso femminile 7176 and causes us to admire it, they wrote of Marie de Parma 7177 his widow. 7178 Italy ever doomed with abstractions, 1850, wrote Zobi, 7179 By following brilliant abstractions. 7180 Mastai, Pio Nono, D'Azeglio went into exile 7181 and so on the 30th of October Lord Minto 7182 was in Arezzo (I think Bowring had preceded) and the 7183 crowd cried EVVIVA 7184 Evviva the Tariff League 7185 and Minto yelled Evviva Leopoldo 7186 Evviv' INDIPENDENZA, this was the new Leopoldo 7187 though Minto was for slowness and sureness. 7188 Lalage's shadow moves in the fresco's knees 7189 She is blotted with Dirce's shadow 7190 dawn stands there fixed and unmoving 7191 only we two have moved. [Page 250] LI 7192 Shines 7193 in the mind of heaven God 7194 who made it 7195 more than the sun 7196 in our eye. 7197 Fifth element; mud; said Napoleon 7198 With usury has no man a good house 7199 made of stone, no paradise on his church wall 7200 With usury the stone cutter is kept from his stone 7201 the weaver is kept from his loom by usura 7202 Wool does not come into market 7203 the peasant does not eat his own grain 7204 the girl's needle goes blunt in her hand 7205 The looms are hushed one after another 7206 ten thousand after ten thousand 7207 Duccio was not by usura 7208 Nor was 'La Calunnia' painted. 7209 Neither Ambrogio Praedis nor Angelico 7210 had their skill by usura 7211 Nor St Trophime its cloisters; 7212 Nor St Hilaire its proportion. 7213 Usury rusts the man and his chisel 7214 It destroys the craftsman, destroying craft; 7215 Azure is caught with cancer. Emerald comes to no Memling 7216 Usury kills the child in the womb 7217 And breaks short the young man's courting 7218 Usury brings age into youth; it lies between the bride 7219 and the bridegroom 7220 Usury is against Nature's increase. 7221 Whores for Eleusis; 7222 Under usury no stone is cut smooth [Page 251] 7223 Peasant has no gain from his sheep herd 7224 Blue dun; number 2 in most rivers 7225 for dark days, when it is cold 7226 A starling's wing will give you the colour 7227 or duck widgeon, if you take feather from under the wing 7228 Let the body be of blue fox fur, or a water rat's 7229 or grey squirrel's. Take this with a portion of mohair 7230 and a cock's hackle for legs. 7231 12th of March to 2nd of April 7232 Hen pheasant's feather does for a fly, 7233 green tail, the wings flat on the body 7234 Dark fur from a hare's ear for a body 7235 a green shaded partridge feather 7236 grizzled yellow cock's hackle 7237 green wax; harl from a peacock's tail 7238 bright lower body; about the size of pin 7239 the head should be. can be fished from seven a.m. 7240 till eleven; at which time the brown marsh fly comes on. 7241 As long as the brown continues, no fish will take Granham 7242 That hath the light of the doer, as it were 7243 a form cleaving to it. 7244 Deo similis quodam modo 7245 hic intellectus adeptus 7246 Grass; nowhere out of place. Thus speaking in Königsberg 7247 Zwischen die Volkern erzielt wird 7248 a modus vivendi. 7249 circling in eddying air; in a hurry; 7250 the 12: close eyed in the oily wind 7251 these were the regents; and a sour song from the folds 7252 of his belly 7253 sang Geryone; I am the help of the aged; 7254 I pay men to talk peace; 7255 Mistress of many tongues; merchant of chalcedony 7256 I am Geryon twin with usura, [Page 252] 7257 You who have lived in a stage set. 7258 A thousand were dead in his folds; 7259 in the eel-fishers basket 7260 Time was of the League of Cambrai: 7261 [Image]
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7263 Leopold in Siena 7264 And of the true base of credit, that is 7265 the abundance of nature 7266 with the whole folk behind it. 7267 'Goods that are needed' said Schacht (anno seidici) 7268 commerciabili beni, deliverable things that are wanted. 7269 neschek is against this, the serpent 7270 And Vivante was there in his paradise, the mild air 7271 the fields rolling eastward, and the tower half ruin'd 7272 with a peasant complaining that her son was taken for war 7273 and he said 'plutocracies were less violent'. 7274 [Image] sin drawing vengeance, poor yitts paying for 7275 [Image] 7276 paying for a few big jews' vendetta on goyim 7277 I think wrote Miss Bell to her mama 7278 that when not against the interests of Empire 7279 we shd/ keep our pledges to Arabs. 7280 Thus we lived on through sanctions, through Stalin 7281 Litvinof, gold brokers made profit 7282 rocked the exchange against gold 7283 Before which entrefaites remarked Johnnie Adams (the elder) 7284 IGNORANCE, sheer ignorance ov the natr ov money 7285 sheer ignorance of credit and circulation. 7286 Remarked Ben: better keep out the jews 7287 or yr/ grand children will curse you 7288 jews, real jews, chazims, and neschek 7289 also super-neschek or the international racket 7290 [Image] 7291 [Image] 7292 [Image] 7293 [Image] 7294 [Image] [Page 258] 7295 governments full of their gun-swine, bankbuzzards, poppinjays. 7296 Did commit, that he did in the Kingdom of Italy ... 7297 of the two usuries, the lesser is now put down. 7298 that he did in the Kingdom of Britain etc/ 7299 Between KUNG and ELEUSIS 7300 Under the Golden Roof, la Dorata 7301 her baldacchino 7302 Riccio on his horse rides still to Montepulciano 7303 the groggy church is gone toothless 7304 No longer holds against neschek 7305 the fat has covered their croziers 7306 The high fans and the mitre mean nothing 7307 Once only in Burgos, once in Cortona 7308 was the song firm and well given 7309 old buffers keeping the stiffness, 7310 Gregory damned, always was damned, obscurantist. 7311 Know then: 7312 Toward summer when the sun is in Hyades 7313 Sovran is Lord of the Fire 7314 to this month are birds. 7315 with bitter smell and with the odour of burning 7316 To the hearth god, lungs of the victim 7317 The green frog lifts up his voice 7318 and the white latex is in flower 7319 In red car with jewels incarnadine 7320 to welcome the summer 7321 In this month no destruction 7322 no tree shall be cut at this time 7323 Wild beasts are driven from field 7324 in this month are simples gathered. 7325 The empress offers cocoons to the Son of Heaven 7326 Then goes the sun into Gemini 7327 Virgo in mid heaven at sunset 7328 indigo must not be cut 7329 No wood burnt into charcoal
7331 Now mares go to grazing, 7332 tie up the stallions 7333 Post up the horsebreeding notices 7334 Month of the longest days 7335 Life and death are now equal 7336 Strife is between light and darkness 7337 Wise man stays in his house 7338 Stag droppeth antlers 7339 Grasshopper is loud, 7340 leave no fire open to southward. 7341 Now the sun enters Hydra, this is the third moon of summer 7342 Antares of Scorpio stands mid heaven at sunset 7343 Andromeda is with sunrise 7344 Lord of the fire is dominant 7345 To this month is SEVEN, 7346 with bitter smell, with odour of burning 7347 Offer to gods of the hearth 7348 the lungs of the victims 7349 Warm wind is rising, cricket bideth in wall 7350 Young goshawk is learning his labour 7351 dead grass breedeth glow-worms. 7352 In Ming T'ang HE bideth 7353 in the west wing of that house 7354 Red car and the sorrel horses 7355 his banner incarnadine. 7356 The fish ward now goes against crocodiles 7357 To take all great lizards, turtles, for divination, 7358 sea terrapin. 7359 The lake warden to gather rushes 7360 to take grain for the manes 7361 to take grain for the beasts you will sacrifice 7362 to the Lords of the Mountains 7363 To the Lords of great rivers 7364 Inspector of dye-works, inspector of colour and broideries
7366 let no false colour exist here 7367 black, yellow, green be of quality 7368 This month are trees in full sap 7369 Rain has now drenched all the earth 7370 dead weeds enrich it, as if boil'd in a bouillon. 7371 Sweet savour, the heart of the victim 7372 yellow flag over Emperor's chariot 7373 yellow stones in his girdle. 7374 Sagittarius in mid-course at sunset 7375 cold wind is beginning. Dew whitens. 7376 Now is cicada's time, 7377 the sparrow hawk offers birds to the spirits. 7378 Emperor goes out in war car, he is drawn by white horses, 7379 white banner, white stones in his girdle 7380 eats dog and the dish is deep. 7381 This month is the reign of Autumn 7382 Heaven is active in metals, now gather millet 7383 and finish the flood-walls 7384 Orion at sunrise. 7385 Horses now with black manes. 7386 Eat dog meat. This is the month of ramparts. 7387 Beans are the tribute, September is end of thunder 7388 The hibernants go into their caves. 7389 Tolls lowered, now sparrows, they say, turn into oysters 7390 The wolf now offers his sacrifice. 7391 Men hunt with five weapons, 7392 They cut wood for charcoal. 7393 New rice with your dog meat. 7394 First month of winter is now 7395 sun is in Scorpio's tail 7396 at sunrise in Hydra, ice starting 7397 The pheasant plunges into Houai (great water) 7398 and turns to an oyster 7399 Rainbow is hidden awhile.
7401 Steel gray are stallion. 7402 This month winter ruleth. 7403 The sun is in archer's shoulder 7404 in crow's head at sunrise 7405 Ice thickens. Earth cracks. And the tigers now move to mating. 7406 Cut trees at solstice, and arrow shafts of bamboo. 7407 Third month, wild geese go north, 7408 magpie starts building, 7409 Pheasant lifteth his voice to the Spirit of Mountains 7410 The fishing season is open, 7411 rivers and lakes frozen deep 7412 Put now ice in your ice-house, 7413 the great concert of winds 7414 Call things by the names. Good sovereign by distribution 7415 Evil king is known by his imposts. 7416 Begin where you are said Lord Palmerston 7417 began draining swamps in Sligo 7418 Fought smoke nuisance in London. Dredged harbour in Sligo. 7419 [Image] 7420 chih3
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7422 Seu Gin set up the stage and taught barter, 7423 taught the knotting of cords 7424 Fou Hi taught men to grow barley 7425 2837 ante Christum 7426 and they know still where his tomb is 7427 by the high cypress between the strong walls. 7428 the FIVE grains, said Chin Nong, that are 7429 wheat, rice, millet, gros blé and chick peas 7430 and made a plough that is used five thousand years 7431 Moved his court then to Kio-feou-hien 7432 held market at mid-day 7433 'bring what we have not here', wrote an herbal 7434 Souan yen bagged fifteen tigers 7435 made signs out of bird tracks 7436 Hoang Ti contrived the making of bricks 7437 and his wife started working the silk worms, 7438 money was in days of Hoang Ti. 7439 He measured the length of Syrinx 7440 of the tubes to make tune for song 7441 Twenty-six (that was) eleven ante Christum 7442 had four wives and 25 males of his making 7443 His tomb is today in Kiao-Chan 7444 Ti Ko set his scholars to fitting words to their music 7445 is buried in Tung Kieou 7446 This was in the twenty fifth century a.c. 7447 YAO like the sun and rain, 7448 saw what star is at solstice 7449 saw what star marks mid summer 7450 YU, leader of waters, 7451 black earth is fertile, wild silk still is from Shantung 7452 Ammassi, to the provinces,
7454 'Siu-tcheou province to pay in earth of five colours 7455 Pheasant plumes from Yu-chan of mountains 7456 Yu-chan to pay sycamores 7457 of this wood are lutes made 7458 Ringing stones from Se-choui river 7459 and grass that is called Tsing-mo' or , 7460 Chun to the spirit Chang Ti, of heaven 7461 moving the sun and stars 7462 que vos vers expriment vos intentions, 7463 et que la musique conforme 7464 YAO [Image] 7465 CHUN [Image] 7466 YU [Image] [Page 264] 7467 KAO-YAO [Image] 7468 abundance. 7469 Then an Empress fled with Chao Kang in her belly. 7470 Fou-hi by virtue of wood; 7471 Chin-nong, of fire; Hoang Ti ruled by the earth, 7472 Chan by metal. 7473 Tchuen was lord, as is water. 7474 CHUN, govern 7475 YU, cultivate, 7476 The surface is not enough, 7477 from Chang Ti nothing is hidden. 7478 For years no waters came, no rain fell 7479 for the Emperor Tching Tang 7480 grain scarce, prices rising 7481 so that in 1760 Tching Tang opened the copper mine (ante 7482 Christum) 7483 made discs with square holes in their middles 7484 and gave these to the people 7485 wherewith they might buy grain 7486 where there was grain 7487 The silos were emptied 7488 7 years of sterility 7489 der im Baluba das Gewitter gemacht hat 7490 Tching prayed on the mountain and [Page 265] 7491 wrote MAKE IT NEW 7492 on his bath tub [Image] hsin1 7493 Day by day make it new 7494 cut underbrush, 7495 pile the logs 7496 keep it growing. 7497 Died Tching aged years an hundred, [Image] jih4 7498 in the 13th of his reign. 7499 'We are up, Hia is down.' 7500 Immoderate love of women 7501 Immoderate love of riches, [Image] jih4 7502 Cared for parades and huntin'. 7503 Chang Ti above alone rules. 7504 Tang not stinting of praise: 7505 Consider their sweats, the people's [Image] hsin1 7506 If you wd/ sit calm on throne. 7507 [Image] Hsia
7509 for offence to the spirits 7510 For sweats of the people. 7511 Not by your virtue 7512 but by virtue of Tching Tang 7513 Honour to YU, converter of waters 7514 Honour Tching Tang 7515 Honour to YIN 7516 seek old men and new tools 7517 After five hundred years came then Wen Wang 7518 B.C. 1231 7519 Uncle Ki said: Jewels! 7520 You eat nothing but bears' paws. 7521 In marble tower of Lou Tai doors were of jasper [Page 266] 7522 that palace was ten years in the making 7523 Tan Ki, palace, lit by day with torches and lanthorns 7524 Now Kieou's daughter 7525 was baked in an ox and served. 7526 And they worked out the Y-king or changes 7527 to guess from 7528 In plain of Mou Ye, Cheou-sin came as a forest moving 7529 Wu Wang entered the city Yüklə 2,9 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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