E.Pound

NOTE TO BASE CENSOR

The Cantos contain nothing in the nature of cypher or

intended obscurity. The present Cantos do, naturally, contain
a number of allusions and " recalls " to matter in the
earlier 71 cantos already published, and many of these
cannot be made clear to readers unacquainted with the
earlier parts of the poem. (briefly)

There is also an extreme condensation in the quotations, for
example

"Mine eyes have " ( given as "mi-hine eyes hev ") refers to the Battle Hymn of the Republic as heard from the loud speaker. There is not time or place in the narrative to give the further remarks on % seeing the glory of the lord.

In like manner citations from Homer or HOMER'S Sophocles or Confucius are brief, and serve to remind the ready reader that we were not born yesterday.

The Chinese ideograms are mainly translated, or commented in the English text. At any rate they contain nothing seditious.

The form of the poem and main progress is conditioned by its own inner shape, but the life of the D.T.C. passing OUTSIDE the scheme cannot but impinge, or break into the main flow. The proper names given are mostly those of men on sick call seen passing my tent. A very brief allusion to further study in names, that is, I am interested to note that the prevalence of early american names, either of whites of the old tradition (most of the early presidents for example) or of descendants of slaves who took the names of their masters. Interesting in contrast to the relative scarcity of melting-pot names.

The suave eyes, quiet, not vengeful

rain also is of the process
what you depart from is not the way

and olive tree blown white in the wind
and this whiteness
washed in theiang and Han

what whiteness will you add to this whiteness
what candor ?

the great periplum brings in the stars to our share

you who have passed the pillars and outward from Herakles
when Lucif er fell in N. Caro lina.

bird hearted equity / clearing away the timber
laying hold of the earth.

? ? idiosyncrasy

if the suave air give way to scirocco

OU TIS OU TIS ? Odissus

the name of my family

the wind also is of the process

sorella la luna

fear god and the stupidity of the populace.

but a precise definition

transmitted thus Sigismunde
this Duccio, this Zuan Bellin or trastevere with La Spona

Spanso Cristi in mosaic till our time / deification of emperors

but a snitty barbarian ignorant of T'ang history need not deceive one
nor Charlie Sung's money on 1/16 from anonimo
that is, we suppose Charlie had some

and in India the rate down to 1/16 per hundred

but the local 1/16 lice provided from imported bankers

so the total interest sweated out of the Indian farmers

rose in Churchillian grandure

as when and as plus when he returned to the putrid gold standard
as was about 1/16 1925, Oh my England

that free speech without free radio speech is as zero

and but one point needed for Stalin

you need not, i.e. need not take over the means of production ;
money to signify work done inside a system

and measured and wanted

"I have not done unnecessary manual labour."

says the R.C. chaplin's field book

preparation before co-operation

4

pluwed in the sacred field and unwound the silk worms early

the tensile

in light of light is the virtu

"sunt lumina" said Erigena Scotus

as of Shun on Mt Taishan

and in the hall of the forebears

as from the beginning of wonders

the paraclete that was present in Yaou, the precision

in Shun the compassionate

in Yu the guider of waters

missal p. # 31

4 giants at the 4 corners

three young men at the door

and they digged a ditch round about me

lest the damp gnaw thru my bones

To redeem Zion with justice

sd/ Isaiah. Not out on interest, said David rex

the prime s.o.b.

vide margin

light tensile immaculata

the sun's cord unspotted

“(sunt lumina,” said the Oirishman to King Carollus,
“OMNIA”)

all things that are are lights

and they dug him up out of sepulture

soi disantly looking for manichaeans

les albigeois, a problem of history

and the fleet at Salamis made with money lent by the state

Tempus tacendi tempus liquendi

never inside the country to raise the standard of living

but always abroad to increase the profits of insurers

dixit Lenin

and gun sees it lead to more gun sales

they do not clutter the market for gunnery

there is no saturation

Pisa, in the 23 rd year of the effort in sight of the tower

and Till was hung yesterday

for murder and rape with trimmings plus Cholkis

plus mytholgy, thought he was Zeus ram or another one

Hey Small wots in the bibl

wot are the books of the bible

Name 'em, don't bullshit ME,

泉邑

TO THE

blessed

Sh. pw. rights

sales

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Tis

莫

莫

5

a man on whom the sun has gone down
the eve, he said, had such a pretty liek in her eyes
and the nymph of the Hagaromo came to me
as a corona of angels

one day were clude banked on Taishan
in or in gllry of sunset

and tovarish

blessed without aim
wept in the rainditch at evening

Sunt lumina

that the drama is wholly subjective
stone knowing the form which the carver iparts it
the stone knows the form

sia Cythera, sia Ixotta, sia in Santa Maria Miracoli

where Pietro Romano has fashioned the bases

a man on whom the sun has gone down
nor shall diamond die in the avalanche
be it torn from its setting
first must destroy himself ere others destroy him

4 tijes was the city rebuilded Hooe Fasa

Gassir, Hooe Fasa, della Italia tradita
now in the mind indestructable Gassir Hooee Fasa

With the four giants at the four co ners
and four gates mid-wall Hooe Fasa
and a terrace the colour of stars

pale as the dawn claud, la luna
thin as Remeter's hair

Hooe Fasa, and in a dance the renewal

with two larks in contrapunte
at sunset
ch'intemerisee

( 6 Long)

a sinistra la Torre
seen thru a pair of breeches

che sublia es la lisse cader

between NEKUIA where are Alceme and Tyro
and the Carpentis of action
to the solitude of Mt Taishan

femina, femina, that w/d/ not be dragged into paradise by the hair.

under the gray cliff in periplum
the sun dragging the stars

6

39

a man on whom the sun has gone down
and the wind came as hamadryas under the sum-beat
Vai soli

are never al me
amid the slaves learning slavery

and the dull driven back toward the jungle
are never alone

as the light sucks up vapor
and the tides follow Lucina

that had been a hard man in some ways
a day as a thousand years

the leopard sat by his water dish

hast killed the urochs and the bison

sd/ Bunting
doing six months after that war was over
as pacifist tempted with chicken but declined to approve

of war Redimiculum Metellorum

privately printed

to the shame of various critics
nevertheless the state can lend money

and the fleet that went out St Salamis

was built by state loan to the builders
hence the attack on classical studies

and in this way were Joe Gould, Bunting and cummings
as against thickness and fatness

8

OCE TROTTA

9

HREI PANTA

Uncle George stood like a statesman
fills up every hollow
the cake shops, the Nevsky, and Schoners
not to mention der Greif at Bolshano
la patronne getting older
Mouquins or Roberts 40 years after
and a Marquise de Pierre had never before
met
"and all their generation" not an american
no, it is not in that chorus
Huddy going out and taller than anyone present

ms / 59

ou sont les eures of that year

Mr James shielding himself with a "Mrs Hawkesby" as it were a bowl shielding itself with a walking stick as he manoeuvred his way toward the door

Said Mr Adams of "The Education",
Teach ? at Harvard

Teach ? It cannot be done -
and this I had from the monument

Haec sunt fastae

Under Taishan, quatorze Juikley
with the hill ablaze north of Taishan
and Amberfives is dead, the end of that chapter
see Time for June 25 th

Mr Graham himself unmistakably
on a horse, an ear and the beard showing
and the arben works still intact
to the tune of Libullero

and they have bitched the Adelphi

Lillibullero

II ms 84

eater of grape pulp
in coitu inluminatio

Manet painted the bar at La Cipelle or at Les Folies in that year
she did her hair in small ringlets a la 1880 it might
have been
red and the dress she wore Brecol or Lanvin

a great goddess Aeneas knew her forthwith
by paint immortal as no other age is immortal
la France dixneuvieme

Dages, Manet, Guys, unforgettable

a great brute sweating paint said Vanderlip 40 years later
of Vlamiack for this stone giveth sleep

staria senza piu scossa
and eucalpytus that is for memory
under the olives, by cypress mare Tireno

Past Malmaison in field by the river the tables
Sirdar, Armenonville

or at Ventadour the keys of the chateau
rain, Ussel

ms/ 94

To the left of la bella Torre ♃ the tower of Ugolino

in the tower to the left of the tower

chewed his son's head

and the only people who did anything of any interest were H,M, and

Frobenius der Vëheimrat

der im Baluba das Gewitter gemacht hat

and Monsieur Jean wrote a play now and then or the Possum

pouvrette et ancienne oncques lettre me luz

I don't know how humanity stands it

with a painted paradise at the end ♃

without a painted paradise at the end ♃

of it

and the dwarf morning-glory twines round the grass blade
magna NUX animae with Barabas and 2 thieves beside me

the wards like a slave ship

Mr Edwards, Hudson, Henry comes miseriae

Comites Kernes, Green and Tom Wilson

God's messenger Whiteside

and the guards of the a lower than that of the prisoners

all them g.g. M.F. generals c.s. all of em fascists

fer a bag o dDukes

the things I saye and dooo

ac ego in harum

so lay men in Circe's swine-sty

ivi in harum ego ac vidi cadaveres animae

cæmon small fry sd/ the little coon to the big black

or the slaver as seen between decks

and all the presidents

Washington Adams Monroe Polk Tyler

plus Carrol 7 of Caralton ) Crawford

Robbing the public for private individual's gain

every bank of discount is downright iniquity 9/2 gain

gain

nec benecomata Kirke

mah/

neither with lions nor lepards attended

but poison, veleno

in all the veins of the commonweal

ms IOI

That old H? had heard from the ass eared militarist in
Byzantium

"Why stop?" said he to begin again when we are stronger
and young H/ the tip from the afgan stables in paris
with Sieff in attendancem or not as the case
may have been

thus conditioning

Meyer Anselm, a rromance, yes, yes certainly
but more fool you if you fall for it two centuries later
...

from their seats the blond bastards, and cast'em
the yidd is a stimulant, and the goyim are cattle
in gt/ proportion and go to saleable slaughter
with the maximum of docility. but if
a place be versalzen ?

With justice,
by the law, from the law or it is not in the contract
Yu has nothing pinned on Jehovah
sent and named Shun who to the
autumnal heavens shado

with the sun under its melody

盡美

102

to the compassionate heavens
and there is also the XIX th Leviticus

"Thou shalt purchase the field with money,"
signed Jeremiah

from the tower of Hananel unto Goah
unto the horse gate $ 8.50 in Anatoth

which is in Benjamin ? $6.67

For the purity of the air on Chocorua
in a land of maple
From the law, by the law, so build your temple
with justice in metyard and measure

a black delicate hand

a white's hand like a ham
pass by, seen under the tent/ flap
on sich aham : command

"coman' ✓!" sick call command'!

and the two largest rackets are the alternation
of the value of money

103

( of the unit of money METATHEMENON TE TON KRUMENON

107

and usury @ 60 ① or lending
that which is made out of nothing
and the state can lend money as was done
by Athens for the building of the Salamis fleet
and if the packet gets lost in transit
ask Churchill's backers
where it has got to the state need not be
nor do the veterans need state guarantees
for private usurious lending
in fact that is the cat in the woodshed
the state need not borrow
as was shown by the mayor of Worgl
who had a milk route
and whose wife sold shirts and shirt breeches
and on whose bookshelf was the Life of Henry Ford
and also a copy of the Divina Commedia
and of the edichte of "eine
a nice little town in the Tyrol in a wide flatlying
valley
near Innsbruck and when a note of the
small town of Worgl went over
a counter in Innsbruck
and the banker saw it go over
all the shits in Europe were terrified
"No one said the Frau Burgemeister,
"in this village who od/ write a newspaper article"
"knew it was money but pretended it was not,
in order to be on the safe side of the law"

But in Russia they bungled it and did not apparently
grasp the idea of work certificate
and started the N.E.P. with disaster
and the immolation of men to machinery
and the canal work and gt/ mortality

IHEHHEHHEHHEHHEHHEHHEHHEHHEHHEH
(which is as may be)
and went in for dumping in order to trouble the waters
in the insurer's hell and dice
all of which leads to the death-cells
each in the name of its god
or longevity because as says Aristotle
philosophy is not for young men
their Katholou can not be sufficiently derived from
their hekasta
their generalities cannot be born from a sufficient phalanx
of particulars
lord of his work and master of utterance
who turneth his word in its season and shapes it
Shun chose Yaou, to longevity

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91

The Muses are daughters of memory

Clio, Terpsichore

and Granville was a lover of beauty

and the three ladies all waited

" and with a name to come "

aram vult nemus

Came Madame Luarezia

and on the back of the door in Cesena
are, or were, still the initials

Joli quart d'heur, (nella Malatestiana)

Torquato where art thou ?

to the click of hooves on the cobble by Tevere

and my fondest knight lie dead" .. or la Stuarda

HOLDEN

"ghosts move about me" patched with histories"

but as Mead said: if they were

what have they done in the interval

oh to arrive at ....?

and there are also the conjectures of the

Fortean Society

Beauty is difficult ... the plain ground
precedes the colour

and this grass or whatever here under the tentflaps
is indubitably bambooiform

representative brush strokes wd/ be similar

and cheek bone by verbal manifestation

her eyes as in " La Nascita"

whereas the child's face

is at Capoquadri in the fresco square over the doorway

centre background

the form beached under Helios

funge la purezza,

and that certain images be formed in the mind
to remain there

formato locho

Arachne mi porta fortuna

to remain there, resurgent IKONIS

繪

事

後

經

系

3 主

3

II5

and still in Trastevere
for the deification of emperors
and the medallions
to forge Achaia

and as for playing chequers with black Jim
on a barrel top where now is the Ritz-Carleton
and the voice of Monsieur Fouquet or the Napoleon
barbiche of Mr Quackenbos & or Quackenbush,
as I supposed it

and Mrs Chittenden's lofty air
and the remains of the old South
tidewashed to Manhattan and brown-stone
or (later) the outer front stair
leading to Mouqiin's
or old Train on the pavement in his plain w
wooden chair (Francis)

or a fellow throwing a knife in the market
past baskets and bushels of peaches
at $1. the bushel

and the cool of the 17th, St, tunnel (periplum)
white-wash and horse cars, the Lexington Avenue cable
refinement, pride of traidtion, alabaster
Towers of Pisa

(alabaster, not ivory)
coloured photographs of Europa
carved wood from Venice, venetian glass and the
samovar

and the fire bucket, 150 Barre Mass' chusetts
and the Charter Oak in Connecticut
or to begin with, Cologne cathedral
the Torwaldsen lion and Paolo Ucello

and thence to AlHambra, the lion court, and 41 mirad court
mirador

orient reaching to Tangier, the cliffs of the
villa of Perdicaris
Rais Uli, periplum

Mr. Joyce also preoccupied with Gibraltar
and the Pillars of Hercules
not with my patio and the wistaria and the
tennis courts

or the bugs in Mrs Jevons' hotel

or the quality of the beer served to sailors
veder Nap'ollii or Pavia, the romanesque
being preferable

and by analogy the form of San Zeno, the
columns signed by their maker
the frescos in S, Pietro, and the Madonna in Ortolo
e, fa di clarita, l'aer tremare

as in the manuscript of the Capitolare
Tratoria degli Apostoli (dodici)

"Ecco il te!" said the head waiter
in 1912 explaining its mysteries to the piccolo

117-129

ms II7

with a teapot from the HHHHHHHHHH another hotel

but coffee came to Assisi much later

that is so one cd/ drink it

when it was lost in Orleans and France semi-ruin'd
thus the coffee-house facts of Vienna

whereas Mr Carver merits mention for the
cultivation of peanuts

arachidi and the soja has yet to save europe

and the wops do not use maple syrop

the useful operations of commerce

stone after stone of beauty cast down

and authenticities disputed by paracites

( made in Nagusa ) and ; what art do you handle
" the best " And the moderns ? " Oh, nothing modern
we couldn't sell anything modern "

But Herr Becker's father made madonnas still in the
tradition

carved wood as you might have found in any cathedral

and another ecker still cut intaglios

such as Salustio's

as in the time of Ikotta

where the maska come from, in the Tirol,

in the winter season
searching every house to drive out the demons

Shd serenely in the crystal jet

as the bright ball that the fountain

tosses

( Verlaine ) as diamond clearness

How soft the wind under Taishan

where the sea is remembered

out of hell, the pit

out of HHHH the dust and glare evil

Zephyrus / Aleliota ⌭

This liquid crystal in certainly a

property of the mind

neo acidens est but an element

in the mind's make-up

est agens and functions dust to a fountain pan
otherwise

Hast thou seen the rose in the steel dust

(or swansdown ever ?)

so light is the urging, so ordered

the dr dark petals of iron

we who have passed over the

CANTO

Out of Phlegethon /

Out of Phlegethon ?

Gerhart

art thou come forth out of Phlegethon ?

II9

with Buxtehude
and Klages in your satchel with the
Stammbuch of Sachs in yr/ luggage
- not of one bird but of many

HERE FOLLOWS the music of
Gerharts Jannequin, as I think
printed in Townsman. Canzone degli Ucelli

probably have to be reduced in size as Townsman's page
larger than usual page size.

CANTO,

and the sun high over horizon hidden in cloud bank
lit saffron the cloud ridge
dove sta memora

"Will" said the Signora Agresti, break his political
but not economic system

But on the high cliff Alomene
Dryas, Hamadryas ac Meliades
flowered branch and sleeve moving
Dirce et Ixotta e che fu chiamata Primavera
in the timeless air

vide 170

How came that they suddenly stand in my room here
between me and the olive tree
or nel olivo ed al triedro ?
and answered the sun in his great periplum
leads NN in his fleet here
sotto le nostre scoglie
under our craggy cliffs

alevel their mast-tops
Sigismundo by the Aurelia to Senova
by la vecchia sottos. Pantaleone

Cunizza qua al triedro,
e la scalza and she who said: I still have the mold,
and the rain fell all the night long at Ussel
cette mauvaise venggg blew over Tolosa
and in Mt Segur there is wind space and rain space
no more an altar to Mithras
from il triedro to the Castellaro
the olives grey over grey holdingwalls
and their leaves turn under Scirocco

la scalza: Io son la luna
and they have broken my house

122 123

the huntress in broken plaster keeps watch for longer
tempora, tempora and as to mores

byabilonian wall (memorat Cheever)
out of his bas relief for that line
we recall him
and who's dead, and who isn't
and will the world ever take up its course again?

very confidentially I ask you: Will it?

with Dieudonne dead and buried
not even a wall, or Mouquin, or Voisin or the cake sn
sp shops in the Nevysh

The Greif yes, I suppose and Schoners and
perhaps the Taverna and Roberts
but la Rupe m no longer la Rupe, finito
Pre Catalana Armenonville, Bullier
extinct as Willy and there are suppose
no reprints

Teofile's bricabrac Cocteau's bricabrac
seadrift snowin' 'em under
every man to his junk-shop

houses shd/ have been built in the '60s
( or 60s ) for a' that
but Eileen's trick sunlight softens London's november
progress b.........h yr/ progress

la pigrizia to know the ground and the dew
but to keep 'em three weeks chung
we doubt it
and in government not to lie down on it

the word is made

perfect

better gift can no man make to a nation
than the sense of Kung fu Tseu
who was called Chung Ni
nor in historiography nor in making anthologies

( b....h yr/ progress )
each one in the name of its god

So that in the sinagogue in Gibraltar
the sense of humour seemed to prevail
during the preliminary parts of the whatever
but they respected at least the scrolls of the law
from it, by it, redemption
@ 8.50 , @ 8.67 buy the field with good money
no unrighteousness in meteyard or in measure ( of prices)

124

and there is not need for the Xtns to pretend that
they wrote Leviticus
chapter XIX in particular

with justice Zion

not by cheating the eye-teeth out of Don Fulano
and Caio e Tizio;

Why not rebuild it ?

Criminals have no intellectual interests ?

" Hey, Snag, wot are the books ov th' bibl' "

" name 'em , etc.

" Latin / I studied latin ."

said the nigger murderer to his cage-mate

( cdn't be sure which of the two was speaking )

" c'mon, small fry " sd/ the smaller black lad
to the larger .

" Just. playin' " ante morjem no scortum

( that's progress , me yr'ise / call it progress / )

in the timeless air over the sea-cliffs

" an the pride of all our D.T.C. was pistol-packin' ...

......

But to set here the roads of France
of Cahors ~~of Chalus~~

the inn low by the river's edge,

the poplars ; to set here the roads of France

Aubeterre , the quarried stone beyond Poitiers -

- as seen against Sergent Beaucher's elegant profile

~~Li est Aucassins~~

and the tower on an almost triabgular base

as seen from St Marta's in

Tarrascon

" in heaven have I to make ? "

but all the vair and fair women

and there is also the more northern ( not nordic )
tradition from Memling to Elskamp, extending

to the ship models in Danzig

if the MEEH Galla's rest have not destroyed them

with Galla's rest and so ...

is measured by the ~~to whom~~ it happens

and to what and if to a work of art

then to all who have seen and who will not

Washington, Adams, Tyler, Polk

( with Crawford to bring in a few colonial
families ) the unruly

Tout dit que pas ne dure la fortune

127

In fact a small rain storm
as it were a mouse, of cloud's mountain
recalling the arrival of Joyce et fils
at the haunt of Catullus

at the haunt of Catullus
with Jim's veneration of thunder and the
Gardasee in magnificence

Gardasee in magnificence
But Miss Norton's memory for/ conversation

( the

( or go on) of idiots
was such as even the eminent Irish writer ...

( or go on) of idiots
was such as even the eminent Irish writer ... has, if equalled at moments (? sinthetically)

certainly never surpassed

tout dit que pas ne dure la fortune
and the Canal Grande has lasted at least until

our time
even if Florians has been refurbished
and shops in the Piazza kept up by

and shops in the Piazza kept up by
artificial respiration

and for La Figlia di Jorio they got out a
special edition

(# entitled the Odeipus of the Lagunes)
of caricatures of DeAnnunzio

90

1' ara sul rostro
years of the dream
and the clouds near to Pisa

and the clouds near to Pisa
are as good as any in Italy
said the young Mozart: if you will take a prise

or following HHHHH Ponce ("Ponthe")
to the fountain in Florida

de Leon alla fuente florida

or Anchises that laid hold of her flanks of air
drawing her to him

Cythera potens, Kopeica Seiva

no cloud, but the crystal body

the tangent forced in the hand's cup
as live wind in the beech grove

as strong air amid cypress

Kope, Alexia Seiva, et libidinis expers
the sphere moving crystal, fluid

the sphere moving crystal, fluid
none therein carrying rancour

none therein carrying rancour
Death, insanity suicide degeneration
that is, just getting stupid as they get older

HOPG HADEAR
nothing matters but the quality
of the affection carved

In the end, that has CHHHHH the trace in the mind

dove sta memoria

and if theft be the main principle in government

( every bank of discount J, Adams remained

131

from the wreckage of Europe, ego scriptor
the rain has fallen, the wind coming down
out of the mountain

Lucca, Forti dei Marmi, Berchthold after the other one,
parts reassembled,

... and within the crystal, went up a swift as Thetis
in colour, rose-blue before sunset
and carmine and amber,

spiriti questi ? personae ?
tangibility by no means at all

but the crystal can be weighed in the hand

formal and passing. Within the sphere: Thetis,
Maya, A consecration,

no overstroke
no dolphin faster in moving
nor the flying azure of the wing'd fish under
Zoagli
when he comes out into the air, livingarrow.

and the clouds over the Pisan meadows
are indubitably as fine as any to be seen
from the peninsula)

as they have destroyed them
Divae Ixottae ( as as to her effigy that was in Pisa

Ladder at swing jump as for a descent from the cross

White-chested martin, God damn it,
as no one else will carry a message,
say to La Cara: amo

Her bed-posts are of sapphire
for this stone giveth sleep.

and in spite of hoi barbaroi
pervenche and a sort of dwarf morning-glory
that knots in the grass, and a sort of butterwheat
et sequelae

Le Paradis n'est pas artificiel

States of mind are inexplicably to us.

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30

Le gli onesti

J'ai eu pitie des autres pas probablement, at moments that suited my convenience assez et Le paradis n'est pas artificiel, l'enfer non plus

Came Eurus as comforter and @ sunset la pastorella dei suini driving the pigs home, bene comata dea

two-) under the winged cloud as of less and more than a day

by the soap-smoothe stone posts where San Vio meets with il Canal Grande between Salviati and the house that was of Don Carlos

shd/ I chuck the lot into the die-water ?
le bowze "A Lume Spento"
and by the column of Todero
shd/ I shift to the other side
or wait " 24 hours

unbound then, therein the difference m
in the great ghetto, left standing
with the new bridge of the Era, where was the old
eyesore
Yendramin, Contrarini Fonda, Fondecho
and Tuilio Romano carved sirenes
as the old custode says: so that since
then no one has been able to carve them
for the jewel box Dei Miracoli

Dei Greci, San Giordio, the place of skulls
in the Carpaccio
and in the font to the right as you enter
sì are all the gold domes of San Marco

Arachne, che mi porta fortuna, go spin on the tent rope

Unkle George in Brassitalo's abbania
voi che passate per questa via :
Does DeAnnunzio live here ?
said the american lady.

" I do not know said the aged Veneziana,
" this lamp is for the Virgin ",
combattere

" Non combattere " said Giovanna,
meaning: don't work so hard,

Arachne che mi porta fortuna)

Athene, who wrongs three ?

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That butterfly has gone out thru my smoke-hole

Unkle George observing Ct/ Volpe's neck at the Lido
and deducing his energy. Unkle G. stood like
a statue

" Rutherford Hayes on a monument "
as the princess approached him

" You from New England?" barked the 10th District,

and it came over me as he talked:
this is Dafne's Sandro --

How ? after 10 years ,

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Trovaso, Gregorio, Vio

Dawnt let 'e, git you 
burred the bearded Dottore
when was the Scotch Kirrrk in 'enice

to warn one against Babylonian intrigue
and there have been since then

very high episcopal vagaries

well, my window

looked out on the Squero <where> Ogni Santi
meets S, Trovaso

things have ends and beginnings

and the gilded cassoni neither then nor up to
the present

and the hidden nest, Tami's dream, the great Ovid
bound in thick boards as the bas relief of Ixotta
and the care in contriving

olim de Malatestis
the long hall over the arches at Fano
olim de Malatestis

" 64 countries and down a boilin' volcano "
says the sargent
ex rum-runner ( the rum being vino rosso )
" runnin' whisky sez he as mountain oysters

lisciate con la MAMMATA lagrime
politis larhrymis DAKRUON Sackpower

bricks thought into being ex nihil
suave in the cavity of the rock la concha

POIKILOTHRON ATHANATA
that butterfly has gone out thru

my smoke hole

ATHANATA saeva , against buff the rose for the
background to Leonello , Petros Pisani pinxit
that a cameo should remain

in Arezzo an altar fragment ( Cortona, Angelico )
po'eri di' aoli

po'eri di' aoli

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po'eri di'aoli sent to thesalughter
to the sound of the bumm drum, to eat remnants
for a usurer's holiday to change the
price of a currency

METATHRMENON
NESON AMUMONA

woe to them that conquer with armies
and whose only right is their power

CANTO

LXXVII

And this day Abner lifted a shovel...
instead of watchin' it to see if it would
take action

Von Tirpitz said to his daughter ..as we have elsewhere
recorded / he said: beware of their charm
But on the other hand Maukoh, though he
would do me a favour to get me onto the commission
to inspect the mass graves @ Katin

(le beau monde gouverne)

if not toujours @ any rate it is a level of
some sort whereto things tend to return

Chung

in the middle
whether upright or horizontal

" and having got 'em ( advantages, privilege )
there is nothing, italics nothing they will not do
to retain 'em "

yrs truly Kungfutseu

Entered the Bros Watson's store in Clinton N.Y.,
preceded by a crash, i.e. by a
huge gripsack or satchel
which fell and skidded along the 20 foot aisle way
and ceased with a rumpus of glass ware

(unbreakable as it proved)
and with the enquiry: WOT IZ ZA COMIN'?

"I'll tell you wot izza comin'

Sochy lism iz afoomin'
( a.d. 1904, somewhat previous but effective
for immediate scope

things have ends ( or scopes ) and beginnings . To
know what precedes and what follows

will assist yr/ comprehension of process

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As Arcturus passes over my smoke-hole
the excess electric illumination

33

is now focussed
on the bloke who stole a safe he can't open
(interlude entitled : periplum by cannon)
and Awoi's hennia plays hob with in the tent flaps

k-lakk ..... thuuuuuu
making rain
uuuh

" 2 , 1 , hooo
there is rain

der im Baluba

Fasa was the city remade,
now in the heart indestructible
4 gates, the 4 towers
( Il Scirocco & geloso )

men rose out of Xania
and Mt Taishan is faint as the wraith of my
first friend
who comes talking ceramics
mist glaze over mountain

Came Boreas and his kylin
to break the corporal's heart

Bright dawn on the sht house
next day
with the shadow of the gibbet attendant

The Pisan clouds are undoubtedly various
and splendid as any I have seen since
Scudders Falls on the Schuylkill
by which stream I seem to recall a feller
setting in a rudimentary shack doin' nawthin'
not fishin', just watchin' the water
a man of about forty-five

nothing counts save the quality of the affection
? mouth, is the sun that is god's mouth

意

思也何遠

stot
spelling

注释

stot

明

思也何遠

思也何遠

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3

4

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as the two halves of a seal, or a tally stick

Shun's will and
King Wan's will

were as the two halves of a seal
as
in the Middle Kingdom

Their aims as one

directio voluntatis, as lord over the heart
the two sages united
and Lord Byron lamented that he (Kung)
had not left it in metric
"halves of a seal"

Voltaire choosing almost as I had
to finish his Louis XIV? Quatorze

and as to the distributive function
1766 ante Cristum

it is recorded, and the state can lend money
as proved Salamis

and for notes on monopoly
Thales m; and credit; Siena

both for the trust and the mistrust
"the earth belongs to the living"
interest on all it creates out of nothing
the buggaring bank has; pure iniquity
and to change the value of money, of the unit of
money

METATHRIMENON

we are not yet out of that chapter
"the Paradis n'est pas artificiel

MANNIMIGH

Moving Xeoyol enters the hall of the records
the forms of men rose out of Yea

"e Paradis n'est pas artificiel
nor does the martin against the tempest
fly as in the calm air

"like an arrow, and under bad government
like an arrow"

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like an arrow

" missing the bull's eye seeks the cause in himself"

" only the total sincerity, the precise definition &

and no sow's ear from silk purse
even in that case ...

the clouds over Pisa, over the two teats of Tellus

He won't " said Pirandello & fall for Freud,
he ( Cocteau ) is too good a poet,"

Well, Campari is gone since that day
with Dieudonne and with Voisin
and Gaudier's eye on the telluric mass of Miss Lowell

" the mind of Plato ... or that of Bacon " said Upward

" Haff you gno bolidigal basshuntz ? ....
Demokritoos , Heragleitos # " elcind Dkt Slonimsky 1912

So Miscio sat in the dark lacking the gasometer penny
but then said : Do you speak german?"
to Asquith , 1914

in

" How Ainley face work all the time
back of that mask "

But Mrs Tinkey never believed he wanted her cat
for mouse-chasing

and not for oriental cuisine

" Japanese dance all the time overcoat" he remarked
with perfect precision

" Just like Jack DePsey's mitts !" sang Mr Wilson

so that you cd/ crack a flea on eider wan
ov her breasts
sd/ the old Dublin pilot

or the precise definition

bel seno ( in rimas escarsas , vide sopra )

with the Arno , i supposed, flowing between them
so kissed the earth after sleeping on concrete

bel seno

Δημόσιον copulatrix
thy furrow

' in limbo no victories, there, are no victories --
that is limbo ; between decks of the slaver

10 years , 4 years