Canto LXXXIV

Si tuit li dolh el plor

Angold τέθνηκε

tuit lo pro, tuit lo bes

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Angold τέθνηκε

“an’ doan you think he chop an’ change all the time

stubborn az a mule, sah, stubborn as a MULE,

got th’ eastern idea about money’

Thus Senator Bankhead

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“am sure I don't know what a man like you

would find to do here’

said Senator Borah

Thus the solons, in Washington,

on the executive, and on the country, a.d. 1939

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ye spotted lambe

that is both blacke and white

is yeven to us for the eyes’ delight

and now Richardson, Roy Richardson,

says he is different

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will I mention his name?

and Demattia is checking out.

White, Fazzio, Bedell, benedicti

Sarnone, two Washingtons (dark) J and M

Bassier, Starcher, H. Crowder and

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no soldier he although his name is Slaughter

this day October the whateverth Mr. Coxie

aged 91 has mentioned bonds and their

interest

apparently as a basis of issue

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and Mr Sinc Lewis has not

and Bartók has left us

and Mr Beard in his admirable condensation

(Mr Chas. Beard) has given one line to the currency

at about page 426 “The Republic’

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We will be about as popular as Mr John Adams

and less widely perused

and the he leopard lay on his back playing with straw

in sheer boredom,

(Memoirs of the Roman zoo)

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in sheer boredom

Incense to Apollo

snow on the marble

snow-white

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against stone-white

on the mountain

and as who passed the gorges between sheer cliffs

as it might be by, is it the Garonne?

where one walks into Spagna

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that Ho-Kien heard the old Dynasty's music

as it might be at the Peach-blossom Fountain

where are smooth lawns with the clear stream

between them, silver, dividing,

and at Ho Ci'u destroyed the whole town

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for hiding a woman, Κύθηρα δεινά

and as Carson the desert rat said

“when we came out we had

80 thousand dollars’ worth’

(“of experience”)

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that was from mining

having spent their capital on equipment

but not cal'lated the time for return

and my old great aunt did likewise

with that too large hotel

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but at least she saw damn all Europe

and rode on that mule in Tangiers

and in general had a run for her money

“perhaps more than was in it’

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Under white clouds, cielo di Pisa

out of all this beauty something must come,

O moon my pin-up,

chronometer

Wei, Chi and Pi-kan

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Yin had these three men full of humanitas (manhood)

or Jin

Xaire Alessandro

Xaire Fernando, e il Capo,

Pierre, Vidkun,

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and as to gradations

who went out of industrials into Government

when the slump was in the offing

as against whom, prepense, got OUT of Imperial Chemicals

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in 1938

so as not to be nourished by blood-bath?

quand vos venetz al sore de l'escalina

ἠθος gradations

These are distinctions in clarity

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ming these are distinctions

John Adams, the Brothers Adam

there is our norm of spirit

our

chung

whereto we may pay our

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homage

Saith Micah:

Each in the name of...

So that looking at the sputtering tank of nicotine and

state whiskey

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(on its way out)

Kumrad Koba remarked:

I will believe the American.

Berlin 1945

the last appearance of Winston P.M. in that connection

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e poi io dissi alla sorella

della pastorella dei suini:

e questi americani?

si conducono bene?

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ed io: peggio dei tedeschi?

ed ella: uguale, thru the barbed wire

you can, said Stef (Lincoln Steffens)

do nothing with revolutionaries

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until they are at the end of their tether

and that Vandenberg has read Stalin, or Stalin, John Adams

is, at the mildest, unproven.

If the hoar frost grip thy tent

Thou wilt give thanks when night is spent.

—
Ezra Pound

The Pisan Cantos, 1948