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
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12760 hence the attack on classical studies

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
[Page 433]
12791 and William who dreamed of nobility

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
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12826 Haec sunt fastae

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
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12861 each one in his god's name

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,
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12896 Past Malmaison in field by the river the tables

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
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12931 plus Carrol (of Carrolton) Crawford

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
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13000 shrank back under the cliff's edge at il Pozzetto

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
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13035 a place be versalzen,,,?

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
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13070 for private usurious lending

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
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13105 lord of his work and master of utterance

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"
[Page 444]
13174 adveni / not to a schema

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
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13209 beauty is difficult

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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13244 "and with a name to come"

13245


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