The cantos of ezra pound [from The Cantos of Ezra Pound (1972)]
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3804 And the waves like a forest 3805 Where the wind is weightless in the leaves 3806 But moving, 3807 so that the sound runs upon sound. 3808 Xarites, born of Venus and wine. 3809 Carved stone upon stone. 3810 But in sleep, in the waking dream, 3811 Petal'd the air; 3812 twig where but wind-streak had been; 3813 Moving bough without root, 3814 by Helios. 3815 So that the Xarites bent over tovarisch. 3816 And these are the labours of tovarisch, 3817 That tovarisch lay in the earth, 3818 And rose, and wrecked the house of the tyrants, 3819 And that tovarisch then lay in the earth 3820 And the Xarites bent over tovarisch. 3821 These are the labours of tovarisch, 3822 That tovarisch wrecked the house of the tyrants, 3823 And rose, and talked folly on folly, 3824 And walked forth and lay in the earth 3825 And the Xarites bent over tovarisch. 3826 And that tovarisch cursed and blessed without aim, 3827 These are the labours of tovarisch, [Page 132] 3828 Saying: 3829 "Me Cadmus sowed in the earth 3830 And with the thirtieth autumn 3831 I return to the earth that made me. 3832 Let the five last build the wall; 3833 I neither build nor reap. 3834 That he came with the gold ships, Cadmus, 3835 That he fought with the wisdom, 3836 Cadmus, of the gilded prows. Nothing I build 3837 And I reap 3838 Nothing; with the thirtieth autumn 3839 I sleep, I sleep not, I rot 3840 And I build no wall. 3841 Where was the wall of Eblis 3842 At Ventadour, there now are the bees, 3843 And in that court, wild grass for their pleasure 3844 That they carry back to the crevice 3845 Where loose stone hangs upon stone. 3846 I sailed never with Cadmus, 3847 lifted never stone above stone." 3848 "Baked and eaten tovarisch! 3849 "Baked and eaten, tovarisch, my boy, 3850 "That is your story. And up again, 3851 "Up and at 'em Laid never stone upon stone." 3852 "The air burst into leaf." 3853 "Hung there flowered acanthus, 3854 "Can you tell the down from the up?"
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3855 And God the Father Eternal (Boja d'un Dio!) 3856 Having made all things he cd. 3857 think of, felt yet 3858 That something was lacking, and thought 3859 Still more, and reflected that 3860 The Romagnolo was lacking, and 3861 Stamped with his foot in the mud and 3862 Up comes the Romagnolo: 3863 "Gard, yeh bloudy 'angman! It's me". 3864 Aso iqua me. All Esimo Dottor Aldo Walluschnig 3865 Who with the force of his intellect 3866 With art and assiduous care 3867 Has snatched from death by a most perilous operation 3868 The classical Caesarean cut 3869 Marotti, Virginia, in Senni of San Giorgio 3870 At the same time saving her son. 3871 May there move to his laud the applause of all men 3872 And the gratitude of the family. 3873 S. Giorgio, 23d May. A.D. 1925. 3874 Item: There are people that can swimme in the sea 3875 Havens and rivers naked 3876 Having bowes and shafts, 3877 Coveting to draw nigh yr. shippe which if they find not 3878 Well watched and warded they wil assault 3879 Desirous of the bodies of men which they covet for meate, 3880 If you resist them 3881 They dive and wil flee. 3882 And Mr Lourpee sat on the floor of the pension dining-room 3883 Or perhaps it was in the alcove 3884 And about him lay a great mass of pastells, 3885 That is, stubbs and broken pencils of pastell,
3887 And he admired the Sage of Concord 3888 "Too broad ever to make up his mind". 3889 And the mind of Lourpee at fifty 3890 Directed him into a room with a certain vagueness 3891 As if he wd. 3892 neither come in nor stay out 3893 As if he wd. 3894 go neither to the left nor the right 3895 And his painting reflected this habit. 3896 And Mrs Kreffle's mind was made up, 3897 Perhaps by the pressure of circumstance, 3898 She described her splendid apartment 3899 In Paris and left without paying her bill 3900 And in fact she wrote later from Sevilla 3901 And requested a shawl, and received it 3902 From the Senora at 300 pesetas cost to the latter 3903 (Also without remitting) which 3904 May have explained the lassitude of her daughter; 3905 And the best paid dramatic critic 3906 Arrived from Manhattan 3907 And was lodged in a bordello (promptly) 3908 Having trusted "his people" 3909 Who trusted a Dutch correspondent, 3910 And when they had been devoured by fleas 3911 (Critic and family) 3912 They endeavoured to break the dutchman's month's contract, 3913 And the ladies from West Virginia 3914 Preserved the natal aroma, 3915 And in the railway feeding-room in Chiasso 3916 She sat as if waiting/or the train for Topeka 3917 ---That was the year of the strikes--- 3918 When we came up toward Chiasso 3919 By the last on the narrow-gauge, 3920 Then by tramway from Como
3922 With her eight trunks and her captured hidalgo, 3923 And a dutchman was there who was going 3924 To take the boat at Trieste, 3925 Sure, he was going to take it; 3926 Would he go round by Vienna? He would not. 3927 Absence of trains wdnt. stop him. 3928 So we left him at last in Chiasso 3929 Along with the old woman from Kansas, 3930 Solid Kansas, her daughter had married that Swiss 3931 Who kept the buffet in Chiasso. 3932 Did it shake her? It did not shake her. 3933 She sat there in the waiting room, solid Kansas, 3934 Stiff as a cigar-store indian from the Bowery 3935 Such as one saw in "the nineties", 3936 First sod of bleeding Kansas 3937 That had produced this ligneous solidness; 3938 If thou wilt go to Chiasso wilt find that indestructable female 3939 As if waiting for the train to Topeka 3940 In the buffet of that station on the bench that 3941 Follows the wall, to the right side as you enter. 3942 And Clara Leonora wd. come puffing so that one 3943 Cd. hear her when she reached the foot of the stairs, 3944 Squared, chunky, with her crooked steel spectacles 3945 And her splutter and her face full of teeth 3946 And old Rennert wd. sigh heavily 3947 And look over the top of his lenses and 3948 She wd. arrive after due interval with a pinwheel 3949 Concerning Grillparzer or---pratzer 3950 Or whatever follow the Grill---, and il Gran Maestro 3951 Mr Liszt had come to the home of her parents 3952 And taken her on his prevalent knee and 3953 She held that a sonnet was a sonnet 3954 And ought never be destroyed, 3955 And had taken a number of courses
3957 Ended in a Baptist learnery 3958 Somewhere near the Rio Grande. 3959 And they wanted more from their women, 3960 Wanted 'em jacked up a little 3961 And sent over for teachers (Ceylon) 3962 So Loica went out and died there 3963 After her time in the post-Ibsen movement. 3964 And one day in Smith's room 3965 Or may be it was that 1908 medico's 3966 Put the gob in the fire-place 3967 Ole Byers and Feigenbaum and Joe Bromley, 3968 Joe hittin' the gob at 25 feet 3969 Every time, ping on the metal 3970 (Az ole man Comley wd. say: Boys! ... 3971 Never cherr terbakker! Hrwwkke tth! 3972 Never cherr terbakker!, 3973 "Missionaries," said Joe, "I was out back of Jaffa, 3974 I dressed in the costume, used to like the cafés, 3975 All of us settin' there on the ground, 3976 Pokes his head in the doorway: "Iz there any," 3977 He says, "Gar' 3978 Damn 3979 Man here 3980 Thet kan speak ENGLISH?" 3981 Nobody said anything fer a while 3982 And then I said: "Hu er' you?" 3983 "I'm er misshernary I am" 3984 He sez, "chucked off a naval boat in Shanghaï. 3985 I worked at it three months, nothin' to live on." 3986 Beat his way overland. 3987 I never saw the twenty I lent him." 3988 Great moral secret service, plan, Tribune is told 3989 limit number to thirty thousand, [Page 137] 3990 only highest type will be included, 3991 propaganda within ranks of the veterans, 3992 to keep within bounds when they come into 3993 contact with personal liberty ... with the french authorities ... 3994 that includes the Paris police ... 3995 Strengthen franco-american amity. 3996 NARCOTIC CHARGE: Frank Robert Iriquois 3997 gave his home Oklahoma City ... Expelled July 24 th. 3998 "Je suis ... 3999 (Across the bare planks of a diningroom in the Pyrenees) 4000 ... plus fort que ... 4001 ... le Boud-hah!" 4002 (No contradiction) 4003 "Je suis ... 4004 ... plus fort que le ... 4005 ... Christ! 4006 (No contradiction) 4007 "J'aurais ... 4008 aboli ... 4009 le poids!" 4010 (Silence, somewhat unconvinced.) 4011 And in his waste house, detritus, 4012 As it were the cast buttons of splendours, 4013 The harbour of Martinique, drawn every house, and in detail. 4014 Green shutters on half the houses, 4015 Half the thing still unpainted. 4016 "... sont 4017 "l'in .. fan ... terie KOH- 4018 lon- 4019 i-ale" 4020 voce tinnula 4021 "Ce sont les vieux Marsouins!" 4022 He made it, feitz Marcebrus, the words and the music,
4024 And that lie about the Tibetan temple 4025 (happens by the way to be true, 4026 they do carry you up on their shoulders) but 4027 Bad for his medical practice. 4028 "Retreat?" said Dr Wymans, "It was marrvelous ... 4029 Gallipoli ... 4030 Secret. Turks knew nothing about it. 4031 Uh! Helped me to get my wounded aboard." 4032 And that man sweat blood to put through that railway, 4033 And what he ever got out of it? 4034 And one day he drove down to the whorehouse 4035 Cause all the farmers had consented 4036 and granted the right of way, 4037 But the pornoboskos wdn't. have it at any price 4038 And said he'd shoot the surveyors, 4039 But he didn't shoot ole pop in the buckboard, 4040 He giv him the right of way. 4041 And they thought they had him flummox'd, 4042 Nobody'd sell any rails; 4043 Till he went up to the north of New York state 4044 And found some there on the ground 4045 And he had 'em pried loose and shipped 'em 4046 And had 'em laid here through the forest. 4047 Thing is to find something simple 4048 As for example Pa Stadtvolk; 4049 Hooks to hang gutters on roofs, 4050 A spike and half-circle, patented 'em and then made 'em; 4051 Worth a good million, not a book in the place; 4052 Got a horse about twenty years after, seen him 4053 Of a Saturday afternoon 4054 When they'd taken down an old fence, 4055 Ole Pa out there knockin the nails out 4056 (To save 'em). I hear he smoked good cigars. [Page 139] 4057 And when the Prince Oltrepassimo died, saccone, 4058 That follow the coffins, 4059 He lay there on the floor of the chapel 4060 On a great piece of patterned brocade 4061 And the walls solid gold about him 4062 And there was a hole in one of his socks 4063 And the place open that day to the public, 4064 Kids running in from the street 4065 And a cat sat there licking himself 4066 And then stepped over the Principe, 4067 Discobolus upstairs and the main door 4068 Not opened since '70 4069 When the Pope shut himself into the Vatican 4070 And they had scales on the table 4071 To weigh out the food on fast days; 4072 And he lay there with his hood back 4073 And the hole in one of his socks. 4074 "Buk!" said the Second Baronet, "eh ... 4075 "Thass a funny lookin' buk" said the Baronet 4076 Looking at Bayle, folio, 4 vols. in gilt leather, "Ah ... 4077 "Wu ... Wu ... wot you goin' eh to do with ah ... 4078 "... ah read-it?" 4079 Sic loquitur eques. 4080 And lest it pass with the day's news 4081 Thrown out with the daily paper, 4082 Neither official pet 4083 Nor Levine with the lucky button 4084 Went on into darkness, 4085 Saw naught above but close dark, 4086 Weight of ice on the fuselage 4087 Borne into the tempest, black cloud wrapping their wings, 4088 The night hollow beneath them 4089 And fell with dawn into ocean
4091 And found ship ... why?... how?... by the Azores. 4092 And she was a bathing beauty, Miss Arkansas or Texas 4093 And the man (of course) quasi anonymous 4094 Neither a placard for non-smokers or non-alcohol 4095 Nor for the code of Peoria; 4096 Or one-eyed Hinchcliffe and Elsie 4097 Blackeyed bitch that married dear Dennis, 4098 That flew out into nothingness 4099 And her father was the son of one too 4100 That got the annulment.
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4101 Pearl, great sphere, and hollow, 4102 Mist over lake, full of sunlight, 4103 Pernella concubina 4104 The sleeve green and shot gold over her hand 4105 Wishing her son to inherit 4106 Expecting the heir ainé be killed in battle 4107 He being courageous, poisoned his brother puiné 4108 Laying blame on Siena 4109 And this she did by a page 4110 Bringing war once more on Pitigliano 4111 And the page repented and told this 4112 To Nicolo (ainé) Pitigliano 4113 Who won back that rock from his father 4114 "still doting on Pernella his concubine". 4115 The sand that night like a seal's back 4116 Glossy beneath the lanthorns. 4117 From the Via Sacra 4118 (fleeing what band of Tritons) 4119 Up to the open air 4120 Over that mound of the hippodrome: 4121 Liberans et vinculo ab omni liberatos 4122 As who with four hands at the cross roads 4123 By king's hand or sacerdos' 4124 are given their freedom 4125 ---Save who were at Castra San Zeno ... 4126 Cunizza for God's love, for remitting the soul of her father 4127 ---May hell take the traitors of Zeno. 4128 And fifth begat he Alberic 4129 And sixth the Lady Cunizza.
4130 In the house of the Cavalcanti 4131 anno 1265: 4132 Free go they all as by full manumission 4133 All serfs of Eccelin my father da Romano 4134 Save those who were with Alberic at Castra San Zeno 4135 And let them go also 4136 The devils of hell in their body. 4137 And sixth the Lady Cunizza 4138 That was first given Richard St Boniface 4139 And Sordello subtracted her from that husband 4140 And lay with her in Tarviso 4141 Till he was driven out of Tarviso 4142 And she left with a soldier named Bonius 4143 nimium amorata in eum 4144 And went from one place to another 4145 "The light of this star o'ercame me" 4146 Greatly enjoying herself 4147 And running up the most awful bills. 4148 And this Bonius was killed on a sunday 4149 and she had then a Lord from Braganza 4150 and later a house in Verona. 4151 And he looked from the planks to heaven, 4152 Said Juventus: "Immortal ... 4153 He said: "Ten thousand years before now ... 4154 Or he said: "Passing into the point of the cone 4155 You begin by making the replica. 4156 Thus Lusty Juventus, in September, 4157 In cool air, under sky, 4158 Before the residence of the funeral director 4159 Whose daughters' conduct caused comment. 4160 But the old man did not know how he felt 4161 Nor cd. remember what prompted the utterance. 4162 He said: "What I know, I have known, 4163 "How can the knowing cease knowing?"
4165 He continued his ambulation: 4166 "Matter is the lightest of all things, 4167 "Chaff, rolled into balls, tossed, whirled in the aether, 4168 "Undoubtedly crushed by the weight, 4169 "Light also proceeds from the eye; 4170 "In the globe over my head 4171 "Twenty feet in diameter, thirty feet in diameter 4172 "Glassy, the glaring surface--- 4173 "There are many reflections 4174 "So that one may watch them turning and moving 4175 "With heads down now, and now up. 4176 He went on toward the amateur student of minerals 4177 That later went bankrupt; 4178 He went on past the house of the local funny man, 4179 Jo Tyson that had a camera. His daughter was bow-legged 4180 And married the assembly-man's son. 4181 O-hon dit que-ke fois au vi'-a-ge ... 4182 Past the house of the three retired clergymen 4183 Who were too cultured to keep their jobs. 4184 Languor has cried unto languor 4185 about the marshmallow-roast 4186 (Let us speak of the osmosis of persons) 4187 The wail of the phonograph has penetrated their marrow 4188 (Let us ... 4189 The wail of the pornograph....) 4190 The cicadas continue uninterrupted. 4191 With a vain emptiness the virgins return to their homes 4192 With a vain exasperation 4193 The ephèbe has gone back to his dwelling, 4194 The djassban has hammered and hammered, 4195 The gentleman of fifty has reflected 4196 That it is perhaps just as well. 4197 Let things remain as they are. [Page 144] 4198 The mythological exterior lies on the moss in the forest 4199 And questions him about Darwin. 4200 And with a burning fire of phantasy 4201 he replies with "Deh! nuvoletta ..." 4202 So that she would regret his departure. 4203 Drift of weed in the bay: 4204 She seeking a guide, a mentor, 4205 He aspires to a career with honour 4206 To step in the tracks of his elders; 4207 a greater incomprehension? 4208 There is no greater incomprehension 4209 Than between the young and the young. 4210 The young seek comprehension; 4211 The middleaged to fulfill their desire. 4212 Sea weed dried now, and now floated, 4213 mind drifts, weed, slow youth, drifts, 4214 Stretched on the rock, bleached and now floated; 4215 Wein, Weib, TAN AOIDAN 4216 Chiefest of these the second, the female 4217 Is an element, the female 4218 Is a chaos 4219 An octopus 4220 A biological process 4221 and we seek to fulfill ... 4222 TAN AOIDAN, our desire, drift ... 4223 Ailas e que'm fau miey huelh 4224 Quar no vezon so qu'ieu vuelh. 4225 Our mulberry leaf, woman, TAN AOIDAN, 4226 "Nel ventre tuo, o nella mente mia, 4227 "Yes, Milady, precisely, if you wd. 4228 have anything properly made." 4229 "Faziamo tutte le due ... 4230 "No, not in the palm-room". The lady says it is 4231 Too cold in the palm-room. Des valeurs, [Page 145] 4232 Nom de Dieu, et 4233 encore des valeurs. 4234 She is submarine, she is an octopus, she is 4235 A biological process, 4236 So Arnaut turned there 4237 Above him the wave pattern cut in the stone 4238 Spire-top alevel the well-curb 4239 And the tower with cut stone above that, saying: 4240 "I am afraid of the life after death." 4241 and after a pause: 4242 "Now, at last, I have shocked him." 4243 And another day or evening toward sundown by the arena 4244 (les gradins) 4245 A little lace at the wrist 4246 And not very clean lace either ... 4247 And I, "But this beats me, 4248 "Beats me, I mean that I do not understand it; 4249 "This love of death that is in them." 4250 Let us consider the osmosis of persons 4251 nondum orto jubare; 4252 The tower, ivory, the clear sky 4253 Ivory rigid in sunlight 4254 And the pale clear of the heaven 4255 Phoibos of narrow thighs, 4256 The cut cool of the air, 4257 Blossom cut on the wind, by Helios 4258 Lord of the Light's edge, and April 4259 Blown round the feet of the God, 4260 Beauty on an ass-cart 4261 Sitting on five sacks of laundry 4262 That wd. have been the road by Perugia 4263 That leads out to San Piero. Eyes brown topaz, 4264 Brookwater over brown sand, 4265 The white hounds on the slope, [Page 146] 4266 Glide of water, lights and the prore, 4267 Silver beaks out of night, 4268 Stone, bough over bough, 4269 lamps fluid in water, 4270 Pine by the black trunk of its shadow 4271 And on hill black trunks of the shadow 4272 The trees melted in air.
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4273 Compleynt, compleynt I hearde upon a day, 4274 Artemis singing, Artemis, Artemis 4275 Agaynst Pity lifted her wail: 4276 Pity causeth the forests to fail, 4277 Pity slayeth my nymphs, 4278 Pity spareth so many an evil thing. 4279 Pity befouleth April, 4280 Pity is the root and the spring. 4281 Now if no fayre creature followeth me 4282 It is on account of Pity, 4283 It is on account that Pity forbideth them slaye. 4284 All things are made foul in this season, 4285 This is the reason, none may seek purity 4286 Having for foulnesse pity 4287 And things growne awry; 4288 No more do my shaftes fly 4289 To slay. Nothing is now clean slayne 4290 But rotteth away. 4291 In Paphos, on a day 4292 I also heard: 4293 ... goeth not with young Mars to playe 4294 But she hath pity on a doddering fool, 4295 She tendeth his fyre, 4296 She keepeth his embers warm. 4297 Time is the evil. Evil. 4298 A day, and a day 4299 Walked the young Pedro baffled, 4300 a day and a day Yüklə 2,9 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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