The cantos of ezra pound [from The Cantos of Ezra Pound (1972)]
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12292 depreciated by the swindling banks, a multitude 12293 of such swindling banks have ruin'd our medium 12294 Their issues are against gold or on nothing. 12295 In '45 as a boy 12296 I heard of the Cape Breton campaign and of 12297 British ingratitude 12298 Injustice of Shirley, of Braddock, of Abercrombie 12299 and of Webb and Lord Loudon especially. 12300 In '59 Pitt, Wolf, Amherst enthused me, but it was short 12301 in '61 came writs of assistance.
12303 especially the circular letters to 12304 members of congress, without these libels 12305 no history of these decades '89 to '09 12306 I am totis viribus 12307 against any division. By the North River 12308 or by the Delaware or by the Potomac I am against 12309 any division of the Union by any river 12310 or by any chain of mountains. Independence against 12311 British policy? Independence against french interference, 12312 federal papers hired by England. 12313 When public opinion is rightly informed, as it now is not, 12314 Vergennes said to me: Mr Adams, newspapers govern the world. 12315 Took Matlock, Cannon and Young's constitutions 12316 believing them Franklin's, they, 12317 Beaumarchais and Condorcet, have paid. They did not like mine. 12318 I have said the English Constitution for 12319 a great nation in 12320 Europe. 12321 An alliance with France or England 12322 wd/ put an end to our system of liberty. 12323 Their inexperience, so superficial their reading ... 12324 Merchants wd/ say: the merchants are to do as they please. 12325 without Louisiana no hold on the Mississippi river 12326 westerners wd/ do any thing to obtain free use of that river 12327 they wd/ have united with England or France 12328 to elucidate the meaning of words at that time 12329 and then determine intentions 12330 oligarchy, insatiable gulf, irresistible. 12331 I am a church-going animal 12332 but if I inculcate fidelity to the marriage bed 12333 they will say it is from resentment against General Hamilton. 12334 and I had forgot the story 12335 of the four English girls General Pinckney was to hire [Page 416] 12336 in England, two for me and two for himself. 12337 The number of licensed houses 12338 was soon reinstated, you may as well preach against rum to 12339 Indians 12340 Little Turtle petitioned me 12341 to prohibit it 'because I had lost 3000 of my children 12342 in his tribe alone in one year.' 12343 Funds and Banks I 12344 never approved I abhorred ever our whole banking system 12345 but an attempt to abolish all funding in the 12346 present state of the world wd/ be as romantic 12347 as any adventure in Oberon or Don Quixote. 12348 [Image]Every bank of discount is downright corruption 12349 taxing the public for private individuals' gain. 12350 and if I say this in my will 12351 the American people wd/ pronounce I died crazy. 12352 their wigwams 12353 where I never failed to be treated with whortle berries 12354 black berries strawberries apples plums peaches etc 12355 for they had planted a number of fruit trees about them 12356 but the girls went out to service and the boys to sea 12357 till none were left there ... 12358 and so will be, believe me, whilever we feel like 12359 colonists 12360 dependent on France or England. 12361 With wood hemp iron, said the Chef d'Escadre 12362 a nation may do what it please. 12363 Taxes laid, war supported. This must be. 12364 Adams writing in Quincy in 1813 12365 Histories are annihilated or interpolated or prohibited ... 12366 our 'pure uncorrupted uncontaminated unadulterated 12367 etc' 12368 Sir Wm. Keith in 1739 proposed such an assembly to the 12369 ministry [Page 417] 12370 aiming at stamp tax---he being then, I believe, in Fleet prison 12371 His hint was taken in '54 and in '64 12372 No gentlemen of talents has undertaken this history. 12373 Thos McKean 12374 can remember no British friendship 12375 during the years that you indicate 12376 (1600 to 1813) 12377 THEMIS CONDITOR 12378 In the Congress of '74 only Pat Henry 12379 had sense of the precipice whereon 12380 ... and courage to face it 12381 French, english, mongrels 12382 we were divided a third to a third 12383 Persons who saw that with our independence 12384 their salaries (from the Gospel Society of London) 12385 wd/ necessarily cease. 12386 Laws of Charondas, destroyed I presume by spirit of party. 12387 Civic polity ecclesiastical bigotry 12388 destroy everything that cd/ give true light or clear insight 12389 into antiquity ... 12390 aristocratical and democratical fury ... 12391 adopted by Moses, by no means account for the facts 12392 ... entitled acta Sanctorum 12393 whether the prepuce shown at Antwerp be authentic ... 12394 many a kept mistress has dared for her lover 12395 hazards and sufferings as you find in the mission records 12396 or tales of militant glory. 12397 'Will his son save 'em (the fishing rights) 12398 for a second time?' 12399 No confidence in Clay, Gallatin, Russell ... 12400 lake!! we should have command of the ocean! 12401 J. Bull still bellows (July 1814) 12402 I wish France may not still regret Bonaparte 12403 Bull greater tyrant, our treaty of 1783 has not lapsed. 12404 Little intercourse between the separate states. No part of
12406 as was my fight for the navy 12407 That is to GET a navy.
12409 FOR PEACE 12410 1800[Image]
12412 Adams to L. Lloyd, in 1815) 12413 I do not believe they cd/ get printed even today 12414 in any newspaper in Boston. Circular letters, the lot of 'em 12415 are full of as many lies as the Acta Sanctorum. 12416 Mihites in Pennsylvania. And they believed firmly that 12417 Bonaparte 12418 was the 'instrument' to bring in Milennium 12419 chosen of Providence to put an end to the pope 12420 Jefferson knew them ... all courting him 15 years 12421 My answer was: Col. Lyman 12422 it will be as you say but ruin honester men than the lot of 'em. 12423 Burr folded it with great gravity, saying: 12424 Now I have him all hollow. 12425 (re/ list of Hamilton's delegates) 12426 Walcott persisted for 8% 12427 Did they believe South Americans 12428 were capable of free government? 12429 lucid interval. The Directory had one for that moment 12430 No people in Europe cares anything 12431 about constitutions, 1815, whatsoever 12432 not one of 'em understands or is capable of understanding 12433 any consti-damn-tution whatever 12434 God forbid that our navy 12435 ever be as England's has been a scourge. 12436 No indian's hatchet raised while I was president [Page 419] 12437 Nor has nature nor has art partitioned the sea into empires 12438 or into counties or knight's fees 12439 on it be no farms ornate or unornate, no parks and no gardens 12440 Fish to us, fisheries, Britain still has navigation rights on 12441 the Mississippi 12442 money or no money, she can never conquer this country. 12443 'They will print anything that will sell. 12444 'Our correspondence is considered a curiosity by both parties' 12445 Adams to Jefferson 1815 12446 but I do not think that it is tampered with 12447 Your letters seem to get here unopened. 12448 Price found 'gloomy predictions' most unwelcome 12449 when Adams said the french revolution wd/ flop 12450 'Give more for Jefferson's letters 12451 than for all the rest in his (Morgan's) volume.' 12452 speeches, restarred inquisition in Spain ... 12453 black white and pied British allies. 12454 fleet to protect Paxton, Birch, Temple. 12455 Credit Otis with a great part of my argument 12456 he showed illegality; toward destroying the charters 12457 Poor soldiers knew not what sent 'em 12458 North called 'em Sam Adams two regiments 12459 enormous wigs that Hutchinson brought here 12460 like fleeces. Believe I had only set 12461 of 'State Trials' in America 12462 ... at State House with my musket and bayonet 12463 under Paddock 12464 even Jesuits popes sorbonnists must have some conscience 12465 so had Sylla, so Marius, and if Hancock had vanity 12466 so had I also, if he riled me, I him 12467 4 large ships between Boston and London 12468 in '55 his uncle left him the business 12469 and this made no change in John Hancock 12470 thousand families in his dependence [Page 420] 12471 The people elected him and Sam Adams approved their 12472 intelligence 12473 Joseph Hawley, Otis, Sam Adams, Hancock 12474 add Jay, without knowing their actions 12475 you know not what made us our revolution 12476 magis decora poeticis fabulis 12477 Otis wrote on greek prosody 12478 I published what he wrote on the latin 12479 His daughter told me he had burnt all his papers 12480 in melancholia 12481 may be from that swat on the pow 12482 From '74 dates neutrality 12483 I begged Otis to print it (the greek prosody) 12484 He said there were no greek types in America 12485 and if there were, were no typesetters cd/ use 'em. 12486 Otis resigned his post (Advocate General) 12487 and was beaten up by coffee house bandits 12488 in good looking clothes. 12489 Otis against the writs, J. A. versus judiciary, 12490 Defended Preston, defended the soldiers; 12491 Fisheries, peace, nomination of Washington, kept peace with 12492 France 1800. Gold, silver are but commodities 12493 Pity, says Tracy, they ever were stamped save by weight 12494 They are commodities as is wheat or is lumber. 12495 Keep out of Europe 12496 And thus before Charlie Mordecai: 12497 'not free 'em to something worse' and quoted 12498 'consider what substance allow to; what labour extract from 12499 them (slaves) in my interest which will work out to this 12500 If you work 'em up in six years on an average 12501 that most profits the planter' 12502 with comment: 12503 'and is surely very humane IF we estimate 12504 the coalheaver's expectation: two years on an average 12505 and the 50,000 girls on the streets, at three years' of life
12507 whereas divers acts 7th and 8th William Third 12508 in preamble for Chapter the twenty second 12509 Don't it remind you of alderman Bekford 12510 instructing his overseers 12511 (treat 'em rough) in the West Indies 12512 Adams to William Tudor 12513 1818 12514 24 years before Hobhouse. 12515 'Ignorance of coin, credit and circulation!' 12516 , ,, 12517
12518 12519 , , 12520 12521 .. [Page 423] THE PISAN CANTOS LXXIV-LXXXIV [Page 425] LXXIV
12522 The enormous tragedy of the dream in the peasant's bent 12523 shoulders 12524 Manes! Manes was tanned and stuffed, 12525 Thus Ben and la Clara a Milano 12526 by the heels at Milano 12527 That maggots shd/ eat dead bullock 12528 DIGONOS, , but the twice crucified 12529 where in history will you find it? 12530 yet say this to the Possum: a bang, not a whimper, 12531 with a bang not with a whimper, 12532 To build the city of Dioce whose terraces are the colour of stars. 12533 The suave eyes, quiet, not scornful, 12534 rain also is of the process. 12535 What you depart from is not the way 12536 and olive tree blown white in the wind 12537 washed in the Kiang and Han 12538 what whiteness will you add to this whiteness, 12539 what candor? 12540 "the great periplum brings in the stars to our shore." 12541 You who have passed the pillars and outward from Herakles 12542 when Lucifer fell in N. Carolina. 12543 if the suave air give way to scirocco 12544 , ? Odysseus 12545 the name of my family. 12546 the wind also is of the process, 12547 sorella la luna 12548 Fear god and the stupidity of the populace, 12549 but a precise definition 12550 transmitted thus Sigismundo 12551 thus Duccio, thus Zuan Bellin, or trastevere with La Sposa 12552 Sponsa Cristi in mosaic till our time / deification of emperors
12554 one 12555 nor Charlie Sung's money on loan from anonimo 12556 that is, we suppose Charlie had some 12557 and in India the rate down to 18 per hundred 12558 but the local loan lice provided from imported bankers 12559 so the total interest sweated out of the Indian farmers 12560 rose in Churchillian grandeur 12561 as when, and plus when, he returned to the putrid gold standard 12562 as was about 1925 Oh my England 12563 that free speech without free radio speech is as zero 12564 and but one point needed for Stalin 12565 you need not, i.e. need not take over the means of production; 12566 money to signify work done, inside a system 12567 and measured and wanted 12568 "I have not done unnecessary manual labour" 12569 says the R. C. chaplain's field book 12570 (preparation before confession) 12571 squawky as larks over the death cells 12572 militarism progressing westward 12573 im Westen nichts neues 12574 and the Constitution in jeopardy 12575 and that state of things not very new either 12576 "of sapphire, for this stone giveth sleep" 12577 not words whereto to be faithful 12578 nor deeds that they be resolute 12579 only that bird-hearted equity make timber 12580 and lay hold of the earth 12581 and Rouse found they spoke of Elias 12582 in telling the tales of Odysseus 12583 12584 "I am noman, my name is noman" 12585 but Wanjina is, shall we say, Ouan Jin 12586 or the man with an education [Page 427] 12587 and whose mouth was removed by his father 12588 because he made too many things 12589 whereby cluttered the bushman's baggage 12590 vide the expedition of Frobenius' pupils about 1938 12591 to Auss'ralia 12592 Ouan Jin spoke and thereby created the named 12593 thereby making clutter 12594 the bane of men moving 12595 and so his mouth was removed 12596 as you will find it removed in his pictures 12597 in principio verbum 12598 paraclete or the verbum perfectum: sinceritas 12599 from the death cells in sight of Mt. Taishan ??? Pisa 12600 as Fujiyama at Gardone 12601 when the cat walked the top bar of the railing 12602 and the water was still on the West side 12603 flowing toward the Villa Catullo 12604 where with sound ever moving 12605 in diminutive poluphloisboios 12606 in the stillness outlasting all wars 12607 "La Donna" said Nicoletti 12608 "la donna, 12609 la donna!"r 12610 "Cosa deve continuare?" 12611 "Se casco" said Bianca Capello 12612 "non casco in ginnocchion" 12613 and with one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands 12614 Lute of Gassir. Hooo Fasa 12615 came a lion-coloured pup bringing fleas 12616 and a bird with white markings, a stepper 12617 under les six potences 12618 Absouldre, que tous nous vueil absoudre 12619 lay there Barabbas and two thieves lay beside him 12620 infantile synthesis in Barabbas 12621 minus Hemingway, minus Antheil, ebullient
12623 Mr K. said nothing foolish, the whole month nothing foolish: 12624 "if we weren't dumb, we wouldn't be here" 12625 and the Lane gang. 12626 Butterflies, mint and Lesbia's sparrows, 12627 the voiceless with bumm drum and banners, 12628 and the ideogram of the guard roosts 12629 el triste pensier si volge 12630 ad Ussel. A Ventadour 12631 va il consire, el tempo rivolge 12632 and at Limoges the young salesman 12633 bowed with such french politeness "No that is impossible." 12634 I have forgotten which city 12635 But the caverns are less enchanting to the unskilled explorer 12636 than the Urochs as shown on the postals, 12637 we will see those old roads again, question, 12638 possibly 12639 but nothing appears much less likely, 12640 Mme Pujol, 12641 and there was a smell of mint under the tent flaps 12642 especially after the rain 12643 and a white ox on the road toward Pisa 12644 as if facing the tower, 12645 dark sheep in the drill field and on wet days were clouds 12646 in the mountain as if under the guard roosts. 12647 A lizard upheld me 12648 the wild birds wd not eat the white bread 12649 from Mt Taishan to the sunset 12650 From Carrara stone to the tower 12651 and this day the air was made open 12652 for Kuanon of all delights, 12653 Linus, Cletus, Clement 12654 whose prayers, 12655 the great scarab is bowed at the altar 12656 the green light gleams in his shell
12658 in tensile [Image] 12659 in the light of light is the virtù 12660 "sunt lumina" said Erigena Scotus 12661 as of Shun on Mt Taishan 12662 and in the hall of the forebears 12663 as from the beginning of wonders 12664 the paraclete that was present in Yao, the precision 12665 in Shun the compassionate 12666 in Yu the guider of waters 12667 4 giants at the 4 corners 12668 three young men at the door 12669 and they digged a ditch round about me 12670 lest the damp gnaw thru my bones 12671 to redeem Zion with justice 12672 sd/Isaiah. Not out on interest said David rex 12673 the prime s.o.b. 12674 Light tensile immaculata 12675 the sun's cord unspotted 12676 "sunt lumina" said the Oirishman to King Carolus, 12677 "OMNIA, 12678 all things that are are lights" 12679 and they dug him up out of sepulture 12680 soi disantly looking for Manichaeans. 12681 Les Albigeois, a problem of history, 12682 and the fleet at Salamis made with money lent by the state to the 12683 shipwrights 12684 Tempus tacendi, tempus loquendi. 12685 Never inside the country to raise the standard of living 12686 but always abroad to increase the profits of usurers, 12687 dixit Lenin, 12688 and gun sales lead to more gun sales 12689 they do not clutter the market for gunnery 12690 there is no saturation [Page 430] 12691 Pisa, in the 23rd year of the effort in sight of the tower 12692 and Till was hung yesterday 12693 for murder and rape with trimmings plus Cholkis 12694 plus mythology, thought he was Zeus ram or another one 12695 Hey Snag wots in the bibl'? 12696 wot are the books ov the bible? 12697 Name 'em, don't bullshit ME. 12698 [Image] 12699 a man on whom the sun has gone down 12700 the ewe, he said had such a pretty look in her eyes; 12701 and the nymph of the Hagoromo came to me, 12702 as a corona of angels 12703 one day were clouds banked on Taishan 12704 or in glory of sunset 12705 and tovarish blessed without aim 12706 wept in the rainditch at evening 12707 Sunt lumina 12708 that the drama is wholly subjective 12709 stone knowing the form which the carver imparts it 12710 the stone knows the form 12711 sia Cythera, sia Ixotta, sia in Santa Maria dei Miracoli 12712 where Pietro Romano has fashioned the bases 12713 12714 a man on whom the sun has gone down 12715 nor shall diamond die in the avalanche 12716 be it torn from its setting 12717 first must destroy himself ere others destroy him. 12718 4 times was the city rebuilded, Hooo Fasa 12719 Gassir, Hooo Fasa dell' Italia tradita 12720 now in the mind indestructible, Gassir, Hoooo Fasa, 12721 With the four giants at the four corners 12722 and four gates mid-wall Hooo Fasa 12723 and a terrace the colour of stars 12724 pale as the dawn cloud, la luna [Page 431] 12725 thin as Demeter's hair 12726 Hooo Fasa, and in a dance the renewal 12727 with two larks in contrappunto 12728 at sunset 12729 ch'intenerisce 12730 a sinistra la Torre 12731 seen thru a pair of breeches. 12732 Che sublia es laissa cader 12733 between NEKUIA where are Alcmene and Tyro 12734 and the Charybdis of action 12735 to the solitude of Mt. Taishan 12736 femina, femina, that wd/ not be dragged into paradise by the hair, 12737 under the gray cliff in periplum 12738 the sun dragging her stars 12739 a man on whom the sun has gone down 12740 and the wind came as hamadryas under the sun-beat 12741 Vai soli 12742 are never alone 12743 amid the slaves learning slavery 12744 and the dull driven back toward the jungle 12745 are never alone 12746 as the light sucks up vapor 12747 and the tides follow Lucina 12748 that had been a hard man in some ways 12749 a day as a thousand years 12750 as the leopard sat by his water dish; 12751 hast killed the urochs and the bison sd/ Bunting 12752 doing six months after that war was over 12753 as pacifist tempted with chicken but declined to approve 12754 of war "Redimiculum Metellorum" 12755 privately printed 12756 to the shame of various critics 12757 nevertheless the state can lend money 12758 and the fleet that went out to Salamis Yüklə 2,9 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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