No More Learning

KXo" 10' K1. 187JPa. , 10'
havmg root In the eqUItIes
10'
and you can make 5000 dollars a year
all you have to do IS to make one trIp up country then come back to ShanghaI
and send In an annual report as to the number of converts
Sweetland on SIck call
Jf. A(1]G'OV KyrIe elelson each under hIS fig tree
or WIth the smell of fig leaves burnIng so shd/ be fire In WInter
wIth:fig wood, WIth cedar, and pIne burrs o Lynx keep watch on my fire
So Astafieva had conserved the tradition From Byzance and before then
Manitou remember thIS fire
olynx, keep the phylloxera from my grape vines
489
? SfjQJCXE:, . vlaICXE:, Xat. pf. , AOI
U Eat of It not In the under world"
See that the sun or the moon bless thy eatIng K&pfJ, Kop'1J, for the SIX seeds of an error
or that the stars bless thy eatIng
o Lynx, guard thIS orchard, Keep from Demeter's furrow
ThiS frUit has a fire within It, Pomona, Pomona
No glass IS clearer than are the globes of thIS flame what sea IS clearer than the pomegranate body
holding the flame~
Pomona, Pomona,
Lynx, keep watch on thiS orchard
That IS n'lmed Melagrana or the Pomegranate field
The sea IS not clearer In azure Nor the Hehads bringing light
Here are lynxes Here are lynxes, Is there a sound In the forest
of pard or of bassarld or crotale or of leaves moving">
Cythera, here are lynxes WIll tbe scrub-oak burst Into flower">
There IS a rose vine In thiS underbrush Red;' whIte"> No, but a colour between them
\Vhen the pon1egranate IS open and the lIght falls half thru It
Lynx, beware of these vIne-thorns
oLynx, YAQ;VICW7TLi comIng up from the olIve yards,
49?
? Kuthera, here are Lynxes and the clIcking of crotales There IS a stir of dust from old leaves
WIll you trade roses for acorns WIll lynxes eat thorn leaves~ What have you In that WIne Jar~
LXWp, for lynxes'>
Maehd and bassarld among lynxes,
how many~ There are Inore under the oak trees,
We are hele waItIng the sun-rIse and the next sunrIse
for three nIghts an11d lynxes For three nIghts of the oak-wood
and the VInes are thIck In theIr branches no VIne lacking flower,
no lynx lackIng a flower rope no Maehd mInus a wine Jar
thiS forest 15 named Melagrana
o lynx, keep the edge on my Cider Keep It clear without cloud
We have laIn here amId kahcanthus and sword-flower The hehads are caught In WIld rose VIne
The smell of pIne mIngles wlth rose leaves o lynx, be many
of spotted fur and sharp ears
o lynx, have your eyes gone yellow, wlth spotted fur and sharp ears">
ThereIn IS the dance of the bassarlds Therem are centaurs
And now PrIapus WIth Faunus
The Graces have brought Ac/>po8lT1Jv Her cell IS drawn by ten leopards
491
? o lynx, guard my vineyard
As the grape swells under VIne leaf
"lIALo~IS come to our mountaIn
there IS a red glow In the C1rpet of pIne spikes
o lynx, guard my vineyard
As the grape swells under VIne leaf
ThIS Goddess was born of sea-foam She IS lIghter than aIr under Hesperus
BfLVa. fi, KlJf)'Y}pa
terrIble In resIstance
Kop"l 1Ca. ~ tlTJALa. KaL ~Iaia. trine as praeludlo
K-01l''pLS J Aeppo8LT'Y}
a petal hghter than sea-foam
Kv8TJpa.
aram nemus vult
o puma, sacred to Hermes, Clmblca servant of Hehos
? LXXX
N' committed no federal crime,
Jes a slaIght mIsdemeanor U
AThus Mr A LIttle or perhaps Mr Nelson, or WashIngton reflecting on the vagaries of our rISing ()f. /LI/)
Amo ergo sum, and In Just that proportIon
And Margot's death wIll be counted the end of an era
and dear Walter was sittIng amid the spOils of Fmlandia a good deal of polar whIte
but the gas cut off Debussy preferred lus playIng
that also was an era (Mr W Rummel) an era of crOIssants
then an era of pazns au latt
and the eucalyptus bobble IS mlsslng
tc Come pan, 01110' "
that was an era also, and SpanIsh bread
was made out of graIn In that era senesco
sed arno Madrl', SevIlla, Cordoba,
there was graIn equally In the bread of that era senesco sed arno
GervaIS must have put mIlk In hIs cheese
(and the mortal fatigue of action postponed)
and Las Menuias hung In a room by themselves and PhIlIp horsed and not horsed and the dwarfs
and Don Juan of AustrIa
Breda, the VIrgIn, Los Boracchos
are they all now In the Prado)
y Las HIlanderas7>
493
? Do they sell such old brass sttliln t t Las AmerIcas" wIth the wind comIng hot off the marsh land
or wIth death-chIll from tIle mountaIns)
and with Symons rememberIng Verlalne at the Tabarln
or Hennlque, Flaubert NothIng but death, saId Turgenev (TlreSlas)
IS Irreparable
d. 'YAa. O~aAaov 7rOpV1J TIepaeepOVEt. a. StIll hath hIs mInd entIre
But to lose faIth In a possIble collaboratIon To raise up the Ivory wall
or to stand as the coral rIses,
as the pilot-fish nears It
(wIll they shoot X--y)
or the whale-mouth for wanting a northern league
for demandIng a ScandInavIan Norse coalItIon Inexorable
the warp
and the woof wIth a sly wet as ocean
flOWIng WIth lIqUId slate
PetaiD defended Verdun whIle Blum
was defending a bIdet the red and whIte stripes
cut clearer against the slate than agaInst any other dIstance
the blue field melts WIth the cloud-flow To communIcate and then stop, that IS the
law of dIscourse
To go far and come to an end
sunplex mundltus, as the haIr of CIrce
perhaps WIthout the mundltlls
as the dlfference between the tItle page In old Legge and some of the elegant fancy work
thiS IS from heaven
494
? I wonder what Tsu Tsze's calhglaphv looked lIke they say she could draw down bIrds from the tICCS,
that Indeed ",as ImperIal, but made hell In the palace
as some say a dark forest
the warp and the ~oof
that 15 of hea\en Ct and I be damned" saId ConfucIus
ThIs affaIr of a southern Nancy
and as for the vagarIes of our frIend
Mr Hartmann, Sadaklchl a few more of hIn1,
were that conceIvable, would have enrIched the hfe of Manhattan
or any other town or metropolIs
the texts of hIS early stuff are probably lost WIth the loss of fly-by-nIght perIodIcals
and our knowledge of Hovey, StIckney, LorIng,
the lost legIon or as Santayana has sald They Just dIed They dIed because they
Just couldn't stand It
and Carman Ct looked lIke a WIthered berry "
20 years after Whitman lIked oysters
at least I thInk It was oysters
and the clouds have n1adc a pseudo-VesuvIus
thIS SIde of Talshan Nennl, Nennl, who WIll have the succeSSIon ')
TothIS whIteness, Tseng saId
tt What shall add to thIS whIteness') "
and as to poor old BenIto
one had a safety-pIn
one had a bIt of strIng, one had a button all of them so far beneath hIm
495
? CurlOUS, 1S It not, that Mr ElIot
has not glven more tIme to Mr Beddoes
(T L ) prmce of morticIans
where none can speak hls language ~
centurIes hoarded
to pull up a mass of algae
(and pearls)
or the odour of eucalyptus or sea wrack
cat-faced, Cloce dl Malta, figura del sol to each tlee Its own mouth and savour U Hot hole hep cat"
or words of SImIlar volume
to be recognIzed by the god-damned
or man-damned traInee Prow1111g night-puss leave my hald squares alone
they are In no case cat food 1? you h1d sense
you wd/ come here at meal tIme
when nleat IS superabundant
you can neIther eat manuscrIpt nor ConfucIus nor even the hebrew scrIptures
get out of that bacon box
contractW,I I oh oh 9 oh
now used as a wardrobe
ex 53 pounds gross weIght
the cat-faced eucalyptus nIb
IS where you cannot get at It
Tune kItten on the keys radIO steam CallIope
followlng the Battle Hymn of the Repubhc where the honey-wagon cease from stInkIng
and the nose be at peace
U tnl-lune eyes hey "
well yes they have
seen a good deal of It
"t'
? there 15 a good deal to be seen fairly tough and unblastable
and the hymn
we111n contrast to the god-damned crooning
put me down for temporls actl OY TI~
/J. xpovo~
now there are no more days
ov TL~
d. xpOVO~
the water seeps In under the bottle's seal
Ttll finally the moon rose lIke a blue p c
of BIngen on the RhIne
round as Perkeo's tub
then glarIng Eos stared the moon In the face (Pistol packln' Jones with an olIve branch)
man and dog
?
ch'uan3
on the S E horIzon
and we note that dog precedes man In the occIdent as of course In the orIent 1? the bloke In the
IS proceedIng to rlghtwards
U Why war';) " sd/ the sergeant rum-runner
cc too many people' when there glt to be too many
you got to kIll some of 'em off " U But for Kuan Chung," sd/ ConfUCIUS
te we shd / still be buttonIng our coats tother way on " the level of pohtlcal educatIon In our
emInent armIes
IS, perhaps, not yet establIshed rna COSl dlscesl per l'aer malIgno
on dOlt Ie temps amSI prendre qu'li VICl"t or to wrIte dIalog because there IS
no one to converse WIth to take the sheep out to pasture
to brmg your g r to the nutrIment 499
? gentle reader to the gIst of the dIscourse to sort out the animals
so that leavIng America I brought wIth me $80 and England a letter of Thomas Hardy's and Italy one eucalyptus pIp
from the sahta that goes up from Rapallo (If I go)
U a S Bartolomeo ml vldl col pargoletto, Chlodato a terra colle braccle aperte
In forma dl croce gemIstl disse 10 son' la luna"
COl pledl sulla falee d'argento
m1 parve dl pletosa semblanza
The young Dumas weeps because the young Dun1as has tears
Death's seeds move In the year
semina motuum
fallIng back Into the trough of the sea
the moon's arse been chewed off by thIs tIme semIna motuum
U With us there IS no deceit"
saId the moon nymph Immacolata
Give back my cloak, hagoromo had I the clouds of heaven
as the nautlle borne ashore In theIr holocaust
as wIstarIa floatIng shoreward WIth the sea gone the colour of copper
and emerald dark In the offing
the young Dumas has tears thus far from the year's end At Ephesus she had compaSSIon on sIlversmiths
5? 0
? revealIng the paraclete standing In the cusp
of the moon et In Monte Glolosa as the larks rise at Allegre
Cythera egoista
But for Actaeon
of the eternal moods has fallen away
In Fano Caesarls for the long room over the arches ohm de MalatestIs
wan caritas XAPITE~
and when bad government prevaIled, lIke an arrow, fog rose from the marshland
bringIng claustrophobIa of the mist beyond the stockade there IS chaos and nothIngness
Ade du PIccadIlly
Ade du Lesterplatz
TheIr works lIke cobwebs when the spIder IS gone
encrust them wIth sun-shot crystals and In 40 years no one save old Bellotti
tc There IS no darkness but Ignorance U had read the words on the pedestal
The thIngs 1 cd/ tell you, he sd/ of Lady de X and of how he caught the Caressor's about to be
1mperlal coattails
and only tWice had rec'd 3 penny bIts
one from RothschIld and one from DeLara . and brought In about . 1 ounces of saffron
for a rIsotto durIng that first so enormous war
Jah, the Bard's pedestal 1St am Lesterplatz 111 the city of London
but the trope IS, as the accurate reader WIll have observed, not to be found In Sam Johnson's edItion
The eVIl that men do lIves after them "
5? 1
? well, that IS from JulIus Caesar unless memory trIck me
who crossed the RubIcon up near RImlnl Where IS, or was, an arch of Augustus
cc Wanted to borrow It back " saId H Cole tt I sd/ why'> he thought he wd/
make another one lIke It "so Horace C started bUying someone else's paIntIngs
whose name, be It not Innes, escapes Ole But unpersonated a sultan
of was It ZanZIbar and took up the paVIng in Bond St to compensate for a partIal deafness
whIch, he felt, lost hIm part of lIfe's fun
and persuaded an AUSSle or Zealander or S African to kneel WIth hnn m prayer
outSIde the Kardomah tea rooms and also roused a street demonstratIon
In Soho for Italy's entry Into combat In 19 was It 15'>
pass Napper, Bottom (correct that to Bottomly) Gaddy on SIck call
WIll be wanted for gunstocks or need belladonna and as for sulkIng
I knew but one AchIlles 111 my tIme and he ended up In the VatIcan
Hannlbals, HamI1cars m profUSion nearly all humble persons
U Jolly woman" saId the resplendent head walter . 10 years after 1 e after old Kalt'
had puffed In, stewmg WIth rage
concernIng the landlady's dozngs
WIth a lodger unnamed
az waz near Gt Tlchfield St next door to the pub cc marrIed wumman, you couldn't fool her" Torn from the sacerdos
5? 2.
? hurled Into unstillness, IXlon Trlnacrlan manxman
So old Sauter
front hall full of large photos of Bismark
and Von Moltke
so that durulg the Boer war WhIstler used to come and talk strategy
but that he, Sauter, never cd/ see the portrait of Sarasate
U lIke a black fly hanging stuck to that canvas" tIll one day after Whistler's death
I think It was Ysaye was with him who saw the Whistler
for the first tIme and burst out
What a fiddle'
It IS saId also that Honler was a medIC
who followed the greek armies to Troas
so In Holland Park they rolled out to beat up Mr Leber
(restaurantler) to MonsIeur Dulac's disgust
and a navvy rolls up to me In Church St (KenSIngton End) wIth
Y urra ]urrmun' To whIch I rephed I am not
t t Well yurr szun1 kInd ov a furrlner " ne povans desracIner
But Tosch the great ex-greyhound used to get WIldly excited
at beIng gIven large beefsteaks
In Tolosa
and leapt one day finally
rIght tnto the centre of the large dinIng table
and lay there as a centre pIece
near the cupboard plIed half full
with novels of c:c: Willy" etc
In the old one franc editIons
? and you cd! hear papa Dulac's VOlce
clear In the choIr that wd/ rIng pIng on the hIgh altar
In the Bach chorals
true as a pIstol shot
and he dumped all hIs old stock
of calIcos plumb bang on the germans
after two or more years of stagnatIon
It was at Leber's that old Colonel Jackson
had saId to GaudIer
U mes comphments"
when GaudIer had saId he wd/ :fight for la PatrIe 1? war came
but that anarchy was the true form of government (meanIng, so far as I cd/ make out, some form of
smdlcal organIzatIon
Jackson at 80 proposed to cook for the armIes of Ulster
u la bonne soupe fait Ie bon soldat ")
and he saId to Yeats at a vortlclst pIcture show
C ( You also of the brotherhood') "
But Dolmetsch dIed wIthout ever knowIng that Dulac
had broken and mended the support to the lId
of one of hIs claVIchords, Dolmetsch' own claVIchords
paInted and toned wIth that specIal sacred vermIlIon, U II est bon comme Ie paIn "
sd/Mockeloftt Wl11v'" (GauthIer VIllars) but I cdn't explaIn to hun (WIlly)
wllat the DIal wanted and Gluck's lC IphlgenIe " was played In the Mockel's garden
Les mceurs passent et la douleur reste U En casque de crystal rose les baladmes "
Mallarme, WhIstler, Charles Condor, Degas and the bar of the FollIes
as Manet saw It, Degas, those two gents crOSSIng C La Concorde ' or for that matter
]uchth's Junk shop
wIth Theophlle's arm chaIr 5? 4
? one cd/ lIve In such an apartment seeIng the roofs of ParIs
<;a s'appelle une mansarde
The old trees ncar the Rue Jacob
were propped up to keep them from falhng
a l'Amltle
and M Jean wanted to save that bUIldIng what do you call! t,
can It have been the old Ecole Mlhtalre~
cc II me parait," saId hIS housekeeper
cc un cure deguise "
(that was MaritaIn)
and Natahe saId to the apache
VOllS etes tres mal eleve
and hIS companIon saId Tiens, elle te Ie dit
so they left her her hand bag and the Jambe-de-bols stuck It up
at an angle, say about 140 degrees and pretended I t was a fiddle
whIle the 60 year old bat did a hoolah to the great applause of that bistro
cc Entrez done, mats entrez, c'est la malson de toutle n10nde "
(ThiS to me and H Llverlght vers Ie Noel) And three small boys on three bIcycles
smacked her young fanny In passIng
before she recovered from the surprIse of the nrst swat ce sont les mceurs de Lutece
where there are also the scant remaIns of an arena and Le Musee de Cluny
Arena or IS It a teatro romano'> and there was also Uncle WIlliam
labourIng a sonnet of Ronsard and the Ink's heIr paInting hIgh lIghts
and MonSieur C who paId, I think, bills for La Falange 5? 5
? and M Arnold Bennett etc
U A h MonsIeur" said old Carolus (Durand) ct vallS allez raser une tOIle' "
and after PUVIS had come CarrIere
(o-hon dit quelque fOls au vI'age) when they elected old Brlsset Prince des PenseUls,
Romalns, Vildrac and Chennevlere and the rest of them before the world was gIven ovel to WellS
Quand V allS serez bien vleille
remember that I have remell1bered,
mla pargoletta,
and pass on the tradItIon
there can be honesty of mInd
wIthout ovelwhelmIng talent
I have perhaps seen a wanIng of that tradItIon (young nIgger at rest In hIS wheelbarrow
In the shade back of the Jo-house
addresses me Got It made, kId, you got It nl'lde White boy says do you speak Jugosla'lan~)
And also near the museum they served It mIt Schlag
In those days (pre 1914) the loss of that cafe
meant the end of a B 1\1 era (BrItIsh Museum era)
Mr LeWIS had been to SpaIn
Mr Blnyon's young prodlgies
pronounced the word Penthesllea
There were mysterious figures
that emerged from recondite recesses
and ate at the WIENER CAFE
whIch dled mto bankIng, Jozefff may have followed hIS emperor
tt It IS the sons pent up WIthIn a man"
mumbled old Neptune
t t Laomedon, Ahl, Laomedon "
? or rather three tt ahis " before the U Laomedon "
U He stood" wrote Mr Newbolt, later SIr Henry,
U the door behInd" and now they complaIn of cummIngs So It IS to Me Blnyon that lowe, InItIally,
Mr LeWIS, Mr P Wyndhan1 LeWIS HIS bull-dog, me,
as It were agaInst old Sturge M's bull-dog, Mr T Sturge Moore's bull-dog, et
meum est proposItum, It IS my IntentIon
In tabernam, or was, to the WIener cafe
you cannot yet buy one dIsh of ChInese food In all Italy hence the debacle
U forloyn " saId Mr BrIdges (Robert)
U we'll get 'em all back"
meanIng archaIC words and there had been a fine old fellow named FurnIval1 and Dr WeIr MItchell collected
And the FranklIn Inn club
and young fellows go out to the colonIes
but go on payIng their dues
but old WIlhan1 was fIght In contendIng
that the crumblIng of a fine house profits no one
(eeltIC or otherwIse)
nor under Gesell would It h1ppen
As Mabel's red head was a fine SIght
wOfthy hIS mInstrelsy
a tongue to the sea-clIffs or tt Shgo In Heaven"
or hIS, WIllIam's, old U da "at Coney Island perched on an elephant beamIng lIke the prophet Isaiah
and J Q as It were aged 8 (Mr John QUInn) at the target
U LIqUIds and fluIds' "
saId the palmIst Ct A paInter)
5? 7
? well aIn't that lIquids and fluids'> " [To the venerable J B bearded Yeats]
tt a frIend," sd/ mr cummIngs, U I knew It 'cause he never trIed to sell me any Insurance "
(WIth memorIal to Warren Dahler the ChrIs Columbus of PatchIn)
Hler wohnt the traditIon, as per WhItman In Camden and an engravIng 596 Lexington Ave,
24 E 47th,
wIth JIm at the checquer board by the banana cage
U Funny looking wood, James," saId Aunt F tt It looks as 1? It had already been burnt"
[\Vlndsor fire]
u Part 0 deh roof ma'am"
does any museum
contaIn one of the foldIng beds of that era~ And now, why~ Regents Park
where was the malson Alma-Tadema (with a fountaIn) or Leighton House for that matter;>
and the mass of preraphaellte rchques
In a trunk In a walled-up cellar In Selsey
ce Tyke 'un up ter the bawth " (meanIng SWInburne) et Even Tennyson trIed to go out
through the fire-place ",
whIch IS what I suppose he, Fordle, wanted me to be able to picture when he took me to MISS Braddon's
(I mean the setting) at Richmond
But that New York I have found at Perlgueux
sz CO? 1Z,' ad Arll
? In wake of the sarascen
As the U Surrender of Breda" (Velasquez)
was preceded In fresco at A vignon
y cavals armatz wIth the perpendIcular lances
and the red-bearded fellow was mendmg hIs young daughter's shoe
U Me Hercule' c'est notre comune " (U Borr," not precIsely Alta? orte)
wIth such dignIty
and at Ventadour and at Aubeterre
or where they set tables down by small rIvers, and the stream's edge IS lost In grass
(Unkle George cd/ not IdentIfy the place on that road because the road had been blown off the sIde of the n10untaln but he clImbed about 2 0 0 steps of the tower
to see what he had seen thru the roof
of a barn no longer standIng suI Plave where he had fired that howItzer
and the large eye that found hun at Its level was a gIraffe's eye
at dawn, In hiS nest, huntIng leopards
U The pose" he saId U IS a taxIdermist's fake the cobra IS not a constrIctor
and would not wrap Itself round the mongoose " But on the subject of terrapIn
would not belIeve they cd/ fly
and the bIshop brought action for lIbel
(I thInk half a mIllIon but dId not, finally, take the case Into court)
by which tIme Uncle George was computIng Volpe's kIlowatt energy
from the back of hIS neck as seen at the Lido Excelsior
? and In that year at Florian's SIr Ronald had saId the Negus IS not a bad fellowe
In fact the milk-whIte doe for Ius cousin remindIng me of the Bank of Egypt
and the gold bars
In old Menehk's palace and the mahogany counters
and desk work In the branch In, was It, Alcssandrla put there by Pea (Enrico)
and wd/ Whitcomb Riley be stIll found In a hIghbrow anthology
Nancy where art thou">
WhIther go all the valr and the clsclatons and the wave pattern runs In tIle stone on the hIgh parapet (Excldeull)
Mt Segur and the city of Dioce
Que tous les mOtS avons nouvelle lune What the deuce has Herblet (ChrlstIan)
done with his paInting'
FrItz still roarIng at trelze rue Gay de Lussac wIth his stone head stIll on the balcony' Orage, Fordle, Creve! too qUIckly taken
de mls soledades vengan
lay there t111 Rossetti found It remalndered at about two pence
(Cythera, 1n the moon's barge whither)
how hast thou the crescent for car'
or dId they fall because of theIr loose taste In InUSIC t ( Here' none of that mathematIcal mus. c' "
Said the Kommandant when Munch offered Bach to the regln1ent or Spewclnl the all too human
beloved In the eyetahan peninsula 510
? for qUIte explIcable reasons
so that even I can now tolerate
man seht but with the loss of criterIa
and the wanderIng almost-tenor explaIned to n1e well, the operas In the usual repertoire
have been Sifted out, there's a reason
Les hommes ont Je ne saiS queUe peur etrange, saId MonsIeur WhOOSlS, de la beaute
La beaute, ct Beauty IS dIfficult, Ye1ts " said Aubrey Beardsley when Yeats asked why he drew horrors
or at least not Burne-Jones
and Beardsley knew he was dyIng and had to
make hIs hIt qUIckly
hence no more B-J In hIs product
So very dIfficult, Yeats, beauty so drfficult
U I am the torch " wrote Arthur ct she salth ,.
In the moon barge Ppo808uICn1Aoli }Iw~
wIth the veIl of faInt cloud before her
Kv97Jpa. 8e1Va. as a leaf borne In the current
pale eyes as 1? WIthout fire
all that Sandro knew, and Jacopo
and that Velasquez never suspected
lost In the brown meat of Rembrandt
and the raw meat of Rubens and ]ordaens
U ThIS alone, leather and bones between you and TO rav,"
[tob pan, the all]
(Chu HSl'S comment) 511
? or the bone luz
as the grain seed and the biceps
books, arms, men, as with Slglsmundo
and of portraIts In our tIme Cocteau by MarIe Laurencln and WhIstler's Miss Alexander
(and the three fat ladles by Sargent, advelsely) and somebody's portrait of Rodenbach
with a background
as It might be L'Ile St LOUIS for serenity, under Abelard's bridges
for those trees are ElySium for serenIty
under Abelard's bridges for those trees are serenity
as he had walked under the raIn altars
or under the trees of theIr grove
or would It be under their parapets In hIs moving was stIllness
as grey stone In the Ahscans or had been at Mt Segur
7ravTa. pEt
and I t was old Spencer (, H ) who first declaImed me the Odyssey W Ith a head bUilt lIke Bill Shepard's
on the quaIS of what Siracusa)
or what tennIS court near what pIne trees)
care and craft In formIng leagues and allIances that avaIl nothIng agaInst the decree
the folly of attacklng that Island and of the force V7r? P p. opov
WIth a mind lIke that he IS one of us Favonus, vento benlgno
Je SUIS au bout de mes forces/ 512
? That from the gates of death,
that from the gates of death WhItman or Lovelace
found on the Jo-house seat at that
In a cheap edItIon' [and thanks to Professor Speare] hast'ou swum In a sea of aIr strIp
through an aeon of nothIngness,
when the raft broke and the waters went over me,
Immaculata, Introlbo
for those who drInk of the bItterness
Perpetua, Agatha, AnastaSIa saeculorum
rcpos donnez a ells
senza termlne funge Immaculata RegIna
Les larmes que J'al creees m'lnondent Tard, tres tard Je t'al connue, la Trlstesse,
I have been hard as youth SIxty years
1? calm be after ternpest that the ants seem to wobble
as the mornIng sun catches theIr shadows (Nadasky, Duett, McAllIster,
also Comfort K P speCial mentIon
on SIck call Penrieth, Turner, Toth hierl
(no fortune and with a name to come) Bankers, Seltz, HIldebrand and Cornehson
Armstrong speCIal mentIon K P WhIte gratIa Bedell gratIa
WIseman (not WIlham) africanus
wIth a smoky torch thru the unendIng labyrInth of the sourerraln
or rememberIng Carleton let hIm celebrate ChrIst In the graIn and 1? the corn cat be beaten
Demeter has laIn In my furrow
? ThIs wInd IS lIghter than swansdown the day moves not at all
(Zupp, Bu6ord, and Bohon)
men of no fortune and wIth a name to COll1e
hIS helmet 15 used for a plsspot
thIs helmet IS used for my footbath
Elpenor can count the shingle under Zoagll PepItone was wastmg toothwash
as I lay by the draIn hole
the guard's opInIon IS lower than that of the
prIsoners
ota
Oh to be In England now tIlat WInston's out Now that there's rOOln for doubt
And the bank may be the natIon's And the long years of patience And labour's vaclilations
May have let the bacon come home,
To watch how they'll slIp and slIde
watch how they'll try to hIde the real portent
To watch a whIle from the tower
where dead flies lIe thick over the old charter
forgotten, oh qUIte forgotten
but confirmmg John's first one,
and still there 1? you clunb over attiC rafters,
to look at the fields, are they tIlled~ IS the old terrace alIve as It mIght be wIth a whole colony
1? money be free again") 514
? Chesterton's England of h,ls-been and why-not, or IS It all rust, rum, death dutIes and mortgages and the great carrIage yard en1pty
and more pIctures gone to pay taxes
When a dog 15 tall b~t not so tall as all that that dog IS a Talbot
(a bit long In the pasterns'>> WhenabuttIS ~astallasawholebutt
That butt IS a small butt
Let backe and sIde go bare
and the old kitchen left as the monks had left It and the rest as time has cleft It
[Only shadows enter my tent
as men pass between me and tIle sunset,]
beyond the eastern barbed wire a sow with nIne boneen
matronly as any duchess at ClarIdge's
and for that ChrIstmas at Maurie Hewlett's GOing out from Southampton
they passed the car by the dozen
who would not have shown weIght on a scale rIdIng, rIding
for Noel the green holly Noel, Noel, the green holly
A dark nIght for the holly
That would have been SalIsbury plaIn, and I have not thougllt of the Lady Anne for thIS twelve years
N or of Le Porte!
How tiny the panelled room where they stabbed hIm
In her lap, almost, La Stuarda 515
? 51 tUlt h dolh ehi planh el marrlmen for the leopards and broom plants
Tudor Indeed IS gone and every rose,
Blood-red, blanch-white that In the sunset glows
CrIes cc Blood, Blood, Blood'" agaInst the gothIc stone Of England, as the Howard or Boleyn knows
Nor seeks the carmIne petal to Infer,
Nor IS the white bud Time's InquIsitor
ProbIng to know 1? Its new-gnarled root TWists from York's head or belly of Lancaster,
Or 1? a rational soul should stir, perchance, WIthIn the stem or summer shoot to advance ContritIon's utmost throw, seekIng In thee But obhvlon, not thy forgIveness, FRANCE
as the young lizard extends hiS leopard spots
along the grass-blade seekIng the green midge half an ant-size
and the Serpentine will look Just the same
and the gulls be as neat on the pond
and the sunken garden unchanged
and God knows what else IS left of our London
my London, your London and 1? her green elegance
remains on thiS Side of my rain dItch
puss lizard w1111unch on some other T -bone
sunset grand couturier
? EUS lIes In Ceres' bosom ZTalshan IS attended of loves
LXXXI
under Cythera, before sunrIse
Hay aqui mucho catohclsmo-(sounded
and he said cc:
y muy poco rellHlon "
and he saId cc Yo creo que los reyes desaparecen "
(Kmgs will, I thInk, dIsappear) That was Padre Jose ElIzondo
In 1906 and In 1917
or about 1917
and Dolores saId ce Come pan, n1110,"
Sargent had pamted her
before he descended
(1 e If he descended
but In those days he dId thumb sketches,
ImpreSSIons of the Velazquez In the Museo del Prado and books cost a peseta,
brass candlestIcks I n proportIon, hot wInd came from the marshes
and death-chIll from the mountaIns And later Bowers wrote tt but such hatred,
I had never conceIved such "
and the London reds wouldn't show up hIS frIends
(1 e frIends of Franco workIng In London) and In Alcazar
forty years gone, they SaId go back to the statIon to eat you can sleep here for a peseta "
goat bells tInkleq all nIght
and the hostess grInned Eso es luto, hawl ml marldo es muerto
(It IS mournmg, my husband IS dead) 517
catohthlsmo)
eat bread, me lad
? when she gave me paper to write on
wIth a black border half an Inch or more deep,
say 5/8ths, of the locanda
U We call all foreIgners frenchTes '"
and the egg broke In Cabranez' pocket,
thus mal\"lng hIstory BasIl says they beat drums for three days
tIll all the drumheads were busted (SlmpIe vIllage fiesta)
and as for hIs lIfe In the CanarIes
Possum observed that the local portagoose folk dance
was danced by the san"lC dancers In dIvers locahtles In pohtlc'tl welcome
the technIque of demonstratIon
Cole studIed that (not G D H , Horace)
U Yau wlll find " saId old Andre SpIre,
that every man on that board (Credit Agrlcole) has a brother-In-law
u You the one, I the few"
saId Jahn Adams speakIng of fears In the abstract
to hIS volatIle frIend Mr Jefferson
(To break the pentameter, that was the first heave)
or as 10'Bard says they never speak to each other, 1? It IS baker and conCIerge VISIbly
It IS La Rouchefoucauld and de Malntenon audibly U Te cavero Ie budella"
U Lacorataate" In less than a geologIcal epoch
said Henry Mencken U Some cook, some do not cook
some things cannot be altered" 'Itrye '? p,Ov 1roTl8CiJp. a. TOV o. v8pa. What counts IS the cultural level,
thank BenIn for thIS table ex packIng box 518
? ? ? lzbretto
Yet
Ere the season dIed a-cold
Borne upon a zephyr's shoulder I rose through the aureate sky
Lawes and ]e1zkY11-s gll,ard th'V rest Dol11zetsch ever be thy guest,
U doanyutellnuoneImadeIt"
from a mask fine as any In Frankfurt
U It'll get you offn th' groun "
LIght as the branch of Kuanon
And at first dIsappoInted wIth shoddy
the bare ram-shackle quaIs, but then saw the hIgh buggy wheels
and was reconciled,
George Santayana arrIvIng In the port of Boston
and kept to the end of hIs lIfe that faInt thethear of the SpanIard
as a grace qU"lSI Imperceptible 35 did Muss the v for u of Rom'1gna
and saId the grIef was a full act
repeated for each new condolere~s
workIllg up to a chmax
and George Horace saId he wdl tC get BeverIdge" (Senator) BeverIdge wouldn't talk and he wouldn't wrIte for the papers but Geolge got hIm by campln' In hiS hotel
and assaIhn' hIm at lunch breakfast an' dInner
three artIcles
and my ole man went on hOt. ln' corn
while George was a-tellIn' him, come across a vacant lot
where you'd occasIonally see a WIld rJ. bblt or mebbe only a loose one
ADl'
a leaf In the current
at my grates no Althea
519
? Has he tempered the vlo1~s wood
T o enforce both the grave and the acute~ Has he curved us the bowl of the lute?
Lawes and TC1Zk'Y1tS guard tl:JY rest
Dolmetsch ever be thJI guest Hast 'ou fashIoned so aIry a mood
To draw up leaf from the root? Hast 'ou found a cloud so lIght
As seemed neIther mIst nor shade~
Then resolve me, tell Ine arIght
If Waller sang or Dowland played Your eyen two wol sleye me sodenly
I may the beaute of hem nat susteyne And for 180 years almost nothIng
Ed ascoltando alleggler mOlmorlO
there came new subtlety of eyes Into my tent,
whether of spIrIt or hypostasIs, but what the blIndfold hIdes
or at carneval
nor any pall showed anger
Saw but the eyes and stance between the eyes,
colour, dIastasIS,
careless or unaware It had not the
whole tent's room
n01 was place for the full EL80J~ Interpass, penetrate
casting but shade beyond the other lIghts sky's clear
night's sea
green of the mountaIn pool
shone from the tlnmasked eyes In half-maslt's space
What thou lovest well remains, 520
? the rest IS dross What thou lov'st well shall not be left from thee
What thou lov'st weIlls thy true herItage Whose world, or mIne or theIrs
or IS It of none) FIrst came the seen, then thus the p11pable
ElySIum, though It were In the halls of hell, What thou lovest well1s thy true herItage
What thou lov'st well shall not be reft from thee
The ant's a centaur In hIS dragon world
Pull down thy vanIty, It IS not man
Made courage, or made order, or made grace,
Pull down thy vanIty, I say pull down Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled InventIon or true artIstry,
Pull down thy vanIty,
Paquin pull down' The green casque has outdone your eleg1. oce
U Master thyself, then ot}-ters sh1. 11 thee beare " Pull down thy vanIty
Thou art a beaten dog beneath the hall, A swollen magpIe 10 a fitful sun,
Half blacl{ half whIte
Nor knOVvst'ou WIng from tall
Pull down thy vanIty
How mean thy hates
Fostered In falSIty,
Pull down thy vanIty,
Rathe to destroy, nIggard In charIty, Pull down thy vanIty,
I say pull down
But to have done Instead of not dOIng
thIS IS not vanIty 521
? To have, wIth decency, l\. nocked That a Blunt should open
To have gathered fronl the a r a live tradItIon or from a fine old eye the unconquered flame
ThIs IS not vanIty
Here ertor IS all In the not done, all In the dIffidence that faltered
52 2
? LXXXII
-_ . . . . . . . . . '~r'HEN wIth his huntIng dog I see a cloud
cc Guten Morgen, Meln Herr" yells the black boy from the Jo-cart
(Jeffers, Lovell and Harley
also Mr Walls who has lent me a razor Persha, Nadaskv and Harbell)
SWInburne my only mISS
and I dIdn't know he'd been to see Landor
a1zd they told me thI~ that an' tother and when old Mathews went he saw the three teacups
two for Watts Dunton who lIked to let hIs tea cool, So old Elkin had only one glory
He dId carry Algernon's stllt case once when he, ElkIn, first came to London
But gIven what I know now I'd have got thru It somehow Dlrce's shade
or a blackjack
When the french fishermen hauled 111m out he
recIted 'em
mIght have been Aeschyh. ~s
tIll they got Into Le Portel, or wherever In the orIginal
CC On the Atreldes' roof" tt lIke a dog and a good Job
EMO~ nO~I~ XlsP02
hac dextera m O l tus
dead by thIS hand beheve Lytton first saw Blunt In the bull rIng
523
? as It mIght have been brother Packard and U our brother Percy"
BaSlnlO'S manuscrIpt WIth the greek moulds In the margIn
OtIS, Sonclno,
the cc Inarble men" shall pass Into nothIngness,
Three bIrds on the WIre
so requested Mr Clowes to sleep on the same
and as to who wd/ p'ly for the composItIon If same were not used
(ElkIn Mathews, my bantam) After all " saId Mr BIrrell, tt It IS only the old story
of Tom Moore and Rogers "
Her LadyshIp arose 10 the nIght and moved all the furniture
(that IS her LadyshIp YX)
her LadyshIp Z dIslIked dInIng alone and
The proud shall not he by the proud
amId dIm green lIghted with candles
Mabel Beardsley's red head for a glory Mr Masefield murmurIng Death
and Old Neptune meanIng somethlng unseizable
In a diSCUSSIon of Flaubert
MISS Tomczyk, the medIum
baffhng the SOcIety for metaphysIcal research
and the Idea that CONversatIon
should not utterly wIther even I can remember
at I 8 Woburn BUIldIngs SaId Mr Tancred
of the Jerusalem and SICily Tancreds, to Yeats, tt If you would read us one of your own chOIce
and perfect
? lyrIcs"
and more's the pIty that Dickens died tWice
wIth the dIsappearance of Tancred
and for all that old Ford's conversatIon was better,
consIstmg 111 res non verba,
despIte WIlham's anecdotes, In that Fordle
never dented an Idea~for a phrase's sake
and had more humamtas
(<:ythera C:ythera)
WIth DIrce In one bark convey'd
Be glad poor beaste, love follows after thee Till the crIcket hops
but does not chIrrp In the drIll field 8th day of September
? ?
d
g
Terreus' Terreus'
there are no rIghteous wars In U The SprIng and Au- tumn"
that IS, perfectly rIght on one sIde or the other total rIght on either sIde of the battle lme
and the news 18 a long tIme moving a long tune m arrIvIng
thru the 1IIlpenetrable crystallme, mdestructible
Ignorance of localIty
The news was qUIcker In Troy's tIme
a match on Cnidos, a glow worm on MItylene,
TIll forty years SInce, Relthmuller IndIgnant
52 5
Jen
wrIte the bIrds In theIr treble scale
? (C Fvy' In Tdaenmarck efen dh' beasantz gnow hrrn," meaning WhItman, exotIc, stIll suspect
four mIles from Camden
u 0 troubled reflectIon
(( 0 Throat, 0 throbbIng heart"
How drawn, 0 GEA TERRA, what draws as thou drawest
tIll one sInk Into thee by an arm's width embracIng thee Drawest,
truly thou drawest WIsdom lIes next thee,
SImply, past metaphor Where I lie let the thyme rise
and basIhcum
let the herbs rIse In April abundant
By Ferrara was burled naked, fu Nicolo e dl qua dlIa del Po,
Wind 'E/l(,V TQV o. l8pa.
he Into earth to the breast bone, to the left shoulder
KIplIng suspected It
to the heIght of ten Inches or over
man, earth two halves of the tally
but I WIll come out of thIS knOWing no one neIther they me
connublum terrae
flUId X@ONO~ o'erflowed me lay In the flUid X(R)ONO~,
that lIe under the aIr's solldlty
l cf>a,TO. '7f'6al. t; Ep. or; X@)ONIO~, mysterlum
drunk WIth 'IXOP of X(R)ONIO~
flUid X(R)ONO~, strong as the undertow
of the wave recedIng
but that a man should live m that further terror, and live
526
? the lonelIness of death came upon me
(at 3 P M , for an Instant) 8a. Kp,)WV
? vTcv8EV
three solemn half notes
theIr whIte downy chests black-rImmed
on the mIddle WIre
perlplum
? LXXXIII
VOOJp
HUDORetPax
Gemlsto stemmed all from Neptune
hence the Rlmlnl bas rehefs
Sd TvIr Yeats (\Yf B) U NothIng affects these people
Except our conversatIon "
lux enlnl
IgnIs est accIdens and,
wrote the prete In hIs edItIon of Scotus l-Illarltas the vIrtue hzlarttas
the queen stItched KIng Carolus' shIrts or whatever whIle Erlgena put greek tags In hIS excellent verses
In fact an excellent poet, ParIS touJours ParI'
(Charles Ie Chauve)
and you mIght find a bIt of enamel a bIt of true blue enamel
on a metal pyx or whatever
om11Ia) quae sunt, lumIna sunt, or whatever
so they dug up hIs bones In the tIme of De Montfort (Sunon)
Le Paradis n'est pas artt:6clel
and Uncle WIlham dawdlIng around Notre Dame
In search of whatever
paused to admIre the symbol
WIth Notre Dame standIng InSIde It Whereas In St EtIenne
? or why not DCI Mlracoll mermaIds, that carVIng,
In the drenched tent there 15 qUIet sered eyes are at rest
the raIn beat as wIth colour of feldspar blue as the flyIng fish off Zoagh
pax, t oop
the sage dehghteth In water
'y~OP
the humane man has amIty WIth the hIlls
as the grass grows by the welrs
thought Uncle WIlham conSZ10S
as the gr1. SS on the roof of St What's hIs name near ct Cane e Gatto"
soIl deLne LIebe seln
It would be about a-level the wIndows
the glass would, or I dare say above that when they bless the wax for the PallO
Ohm de Malatestls
wIth Marla's face there In the fresco
paInted two centurIes sooner,
at least that before she wore It
As Montlno's
In that famIly group of about I820
not wholly Hardy's materIal
as he was standIng below the altars of the spIrIts of raIn
? C t When every hollow IS full It moves forward "
to the phantom mountain above the cloud But In the caged panther's eyes
U Nothing NothIng that you can do "
green pool, under green of the Jungle,
caged ce Nothing, nothIng that you can do "
6. pvo. rs, your eyes are ! lke clouds
Nor can who has passed a month In the death cells beheve In capItal punIshment
No man who has passed a month In the death cells beheves In cages for beasts
t1ptJo. ~,your eyes are lIke the clouds over Talshan \Vhen sonle of the rain has fallen
and 11alf remains yet to fall
The roots go down to the river's edge and the hIdden CIty moves upward
white Ivory under the bark
With clouds over Talshan-Chocorua when the blackberry ripens
and now the new moon faces T alsl1an one must count by the dawn star
Dryad, thy peace IS lIke water There IS September sun on the pools
Plura dlafana
Hel1ads 11ft the mist from the young Willows
there IS no base seen under Talshan 53?
? but the brIghtness of fudor vawp the poplar tipS float m brIghtness
only the stockade posts stand
And now the ants seem to stagger
as the dawn sun has trapped theIr shad. ov/s,
thIs breath wholly covers the mountalns It shInes and dIvIdes
It nourIshes by Its rectItude
does no InjUry
overstandlng the earth It fills the nIne fields
to heaven
Boon companIon to eqUIty It JOIns WIth the process
lackIng It, there IS InanItion
When the eqUIties are gathered together as bllds alIghtIng
It sprlngeth up vItal
If deeds be not ensheaved and garnered In the heart there IS InanItion
(have I perchance a debt to a man named Clower)
that he eat of the barley corn and move WIth the seed's breath
the sun as a golden eye
between dark cloud and the mountaIn
ce Non combaattere" saId Glovc1. nna
meaning, as before stated, don't work so hard
531
? don't
as It stands In the Kung-Sun Chow San GregorIo, San Trovaso
Old Zlovan raced at seventy after Ius glorIes and came In long last
and the family eyes stayed the same AdrIatic for three generatIons (San VIO)
and was, I suppose, last month the Redentore as usual
Will I ever see the Gludecca agaIn)
or the lIghts against It, Ca' Foscar! , Ca' Glustmlan
or the Ca', as they say, of Desdemona
or the two towers where are the cypress no more
or the boats moored off Ie Zattere
or the north qual of the Sensarla DAKRUON AAKPYON
and Brother Wasp IS bUilding a very neat house
of four rooms, one shaped lIke a squat IndIan bottle La vespa, ltl vespa, mud, swallow system
so that dreammg of Bracelonde and of Perugla and the great fountaIn In the Piazza
or of old Bulagalo's cat that With a well tImed leap
could turn the lever-shaped door handle
It comes over me that Mr Walls must be a ten-strIke WIth the sIgnorInas
and In the warmth after cht11 sunrIse
an Infant, green as new grass,
532
? has stuck Its head or tIp
out of Madame La Vespa's bottle
mint sprIngs up agaIn
In spite of Jones' rodents
as had the clover by the gorIlla cage WIth a four-leaf
When the mInd sWIngs by a grass-blade an ant's forefoot shall save you
the clover leaf smells and tastes as Its flower
The Infant has descended,
from mud on the tent roof to Tellus, hke to lIke colour he goes amId grass-blades
greeting them that dwell under XTHONOS 01 X00NIOI, to carry our news
X(R)ONO~
E:iS XOOJlLOVi to them that dwell under the earth, begotten of aIr, that shall SIng In the bower
of Kare,
and have speech With Tireslas, Thebae
CrIsto Re, DIO Sole
In about ~ a day she has made her adobe (la vespa) the tiny mud-flask
and that day I wrote no further
TI? PUf. epOV? LQ,
There IS fatIgue deep as the grave
The Kakemono grows In flat land out of mIst
sun rIses lop-sided over the mountaIn
so that I recalled the nOIse In the chnnney
as It were the WInd In the chImney
but was m realIty Uncle WIllIam
533
? downstaIrs composIng
that had made a great Peeeeacock
In the proicle ov his olye
had made a great peeeeeeecock In the made a great peacock
In the prolde of hIS oyyee
prolcle ov hIS oy-ee
as Indeed he had, and perdurable
a great peacock aere perennIUS
or as In the advice to the young man to
breed and get married (or not)
as you choose to regard It
at Stone Cottage In Sussex by the waste moor (or whatever) and the holly bush
who would not eat ham for dInner because peasants eat ham for dinner
despite the excellent qualIty and the pleasure of haVing It hot
well those days are gone forever
and the travehng rug wIth the coon-skin tabs
and hIS hearIng nearly all Wordsworth for the sake of hiS conscience but
preferring Ennemosor on WItches
did we ever get to the end of Doughty The Dawn In Brltaln)
perhaps not Summons withdrawn, SIr )
(beIn' alIens In prohIbIted area)
534
? clouds 11ft theIr small mountaIns before the elder hIlls
A fat moon rIses lop-sIded over the mountaIn The eyes, thIs tIme my world,
But pass and look fron~ mIne between my lIds
sea, sky, and pool alternate
pool, sky, sea,
mornIng moon agaInst sunrIse
ltke a bIt of the best al1tIent greek COInage
und
~11r sagen
DIe Damen Du bIst GreIS,
Anacreon
. . '. \nd that a Madonna novecento
cd! be as a Madonna quattrocento ThIS I learned In the Tirol
and as perfect
where they paInt the houses outsIde WIth figures and the deep Inner courts run back trIple
tt Das hels' \Valterplatz "
heard In Bozen (Bolzano)
and In my mother's time It was respectable, It was socIal, apparently,
to SIt In the Senate gallery 535
? or even In that of the House
to hear the fire-works of the senators
(and possIbly reprcst. ntatlves)
as was stIll done In Westmlnster In my time and a very poor show from the once I saw It)
but If Senator Edwards cd; speak
and have hIS tropes stay In the mcn10ry 40 years, 60 years) In short; the descent
has not been of advantage eIther
to the Senate or to t t SOcIety "
or to the people
The States have passed thru a dam'd supercIlIous era
Down, Derry-down /
Oh let an old man rest
? LXXXIV
8th October
51 tUlt 11 doIh eIh plor
Angold TEfJV1]I<E tUlt 10 pro, tUlt 10 bes
Angold -rtfJV'Y}I<E
U 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 n
Thus Senator Bankhead cc 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
ye spotted lambe
that IS both blacke and whIte
IS yeven to us for the eyes' dehght
and now Richardson, Roy RIchardson, says he 15 different
wIll I mentIon hIS name'>
and Demattia IS checkIng out
WhIte, FazzIo, Bedell, benedIct"
Sarnone, two Washmgtons (dark) J and M Bassler, Starcher, H Crowder and
no soldIer he although hiS name IS Slaughter
thIS day October the whateverth Mr Coxey aged 91 has mentioned bonds and theIr
Interest
537
? apparently as a basIs of Issue and Mr SIne LewIs has not
and Bart6k has left us
and Mr Beard In hiS admirable condensatIon
(Mr Chas Beard) has gIven one hne to the currency at about page 426 u The Young RepublIc"
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)
In sheer boredom
IncefJ. se to Apollo
snow-whIte
against stone-whIte
Carrara
on the mountaIn
and as who passed the gorges between sheer chffs as It might be by, IS It the Garonne)
where one walks Into Spagna
that TCao Chtlen heard the old Dynasty's mUSIC as It might he at the Peach-blossom FountaIn
where are smooth lawns wIth the clear stream between them, slIver, dIvIdIng,
and at Ho Cl~Udestroyed the whole town for hIding a woman, Kv87Jpa, 8ELJla
and as Carson the desert rat said
tC whenwecameoutwehad
80 thousand dollars~worth " (U of experIence ")
that was from mmlng
havIng spent thelr capItal on eqUIpment
but not cal'lated the time for return
snow on the marble
? and myoId great aunt did lIkewise wIth that too large hotel
but at least she saVl damn all Europe
and rode on that mule In TangIers
and In general had a run for her money
U perhaps more than was In It " Under white clouds, clelo dl Plsa
out of all thIS beauty somethIng must come,
o moon my pin-up, chronometer
\Vel, Chi and PI-kan
Ym had these three men full of humanltas (manhood)
Xalre Alessandro
or Jen2
Xalre Fernando, e 11 Capo,
PIerre, Vldkun, Henrlot
and as to gradations
who went out of mdustrlals Into Government
when the slump was In the offing
as against whom, prepense, got OUT of In1perlal Chemicals In 1938
so as not to be nourIshed by blood-bath)
quand vos venetz al som de ! 'escal1na
~80f; gradations
These are dIstInctions In clarIty
mmg2 . ! nthese are dll>ClOctlOns 539
? John Adams, the Brothers Adam there IS our norm of SpIrIt
our
whereto we may pay our Salth MIcah
hon1age
Each In the name of
So that lookIng at the sputtermg tank. of nicotlne and
stale whIskey
(on Its way out)
Kumrad Koba remarked
I wtll belIeve the American
Berlin I945
the last appearance of Winston PM In that connection
e pOliO dlSSl alIa sorella della pastorella del SUInl
e questl amerlcanl)
81 conducono bene'
ed ella ed 10
poco
Poco, poco
pegglo del tedeschl')
ed ella uguale, thru the barbed WIre
you can, saId Stef (Llncoln Steffens) do nothing wIth revolutIonaries
unttl they are at the end of tIlelr 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
540
? SECTION ROCK-DRILL DE LOS CANTARES LXXXV-XCV
? LXXXV
Our dynasty came in because of a great sensibility. All there by the time ofI Yin
All roots by the time of I Yin. Galileo index'd 16I6, Wellington's peace after Vaterloo
a gnomon, Our science is from the watching of shadows;
That Queen Bess translated Ovid,
Cleopatra wrote of the currency,
Versus who scatter old records ignoring the hsien2 form
543
? eccellenza
and Jump to the wmnmg side (turbae)
have scopes and beginnIngs
tchoung cheu
II 9
t
2 Jen
are called chungJ - 4
f--: "Jif (J. 508, Mathews)
no mere epItome WIthOut orgamzaoon The sun under It all
Justice, d'urbamte, de prudence
weI heou,
the sheltered grass hopes, chueh, cohere
(~o,~tlsnotphtlolo~c~)
N at led of lustmg, not of conmvmg but IS as the grass and tree
not led of lusting,
not of the worm, contnvmg
544
? THE FOUR TUAN J
Hulled rIce and silk at easter
(WIth the bacht held under their aprons
From T'ang's tIme unci now)
That you lean 'gamst the tree ofheaven,
and know YgdrasaI1
po, sluh2
"BIrds and terrapIn hved under HJ. a,
beast and fish held theIr order,
NeIther flood nor flame falling m excess"
mona pou gnmg
PerspIcax qUI excoht se Ipsum,
Their wntmgs Wlther because they have no cunoslty, TIns I(leader", gouged pumpkm
that they hOlst on a pole, 545
or foundattons
? But If you wIll follow thIs process
not a lot of signs, but the one sign etcetera
plus always Texv'Y)
and from TexvYJ back to crecx. u1"6v Neither by chmks, nor by soplusts,
nor by hmdoo Immatuntles, Dante, out of St VIctor (Rtchardus),
Erlgena WIth greek tags m lus verses Y Ym sent the young kmg mto seclusion by T'ang Tomb to thmk tlungs over,
that they make total war on CONTEMPLATIO Not to pamper tlus squlrrel-headedness
"In T'oung loco palatlum"
and not to bItch thiS whole generatIon In fish-traps
k'o tchoWlg iun
te
put some elbow-grease mto It the clurd seu
Nor by vam dlsputatlons
mB szu'
Mat 5592
? nor SIttIng down on a Job that IS done 1 Jenn IUen
whereby, m the long run,
. . R chen
reddIdIt gubermum Imperatorl
ttl ch'8n
As the pIvot perceIved by Y Ym
quam snnplex ammus Imperatons
that the drlFerent clans say BIgob' He sazd It III 6 Xl, RIght here IS the BIll of RIghts
547
? Three hundred years untJ. 1 P'an
Baros metetz en gatge'
Alexander paId the debts of lus troops
Not serenmplty
but to spread
te thru the people
The pusillammous
wantmg all men cut down to worm-Slze
Mr Roosevelt chose DexterWlute As agamst culture as qUlck-sand
after tl'48" (1848)
P'an Keng
? plulology subdIvIded, Nap III had the compOSItIon dIvIded,
to each compositor m the prInt shop a very few hnes,
none seemg the whole ProclamatIon Keep 'em off the market four years
and leave 'em WIthout understandmg, No claSSICS,
no Amencan lustory,
no centre, no general root,
No prezzo glusto as core
Alexander paid the debts of Ius solchery
WishIng to bnng back T'ang's state of awareness
KAO
TSOUNG 1324 1265 a c
Whetstone wIurlmg to gnnd, JOU tso
h
cymba et remlS Trees prop up clouds,
Praecogmta bonum ut te moveas and then consider the time
htl
549
UBIJUS VAGUM
59
? cheu ~
"Faogare m sacns
dlcltur non reveren
ill Vlll, 11
11
FOll lue
tchoung
m ntes not flame-headed
l'Up to then, I Just hadn't caught on "
chung wang hSlen
saId KAO TSOUNG
Imperator Slcut vmum ac mustum brew up thIS dlrectlo, tcheu,
fermentum et gernuna,
study WIth the nund ofa grandson and watch the time lIke a hawk
ta6 tSl %research and %
Tex'n) % observanon, % TeX'J"l) % trammg, TeXY"l)
You will go a long way WIthout shppmg, 55?
Bli
irM
Tch'eng T'ang for gwde
? wIthout sloppmg over NISI cum saplentlbus non reglt,
nor sage feed from pOIsoned trough 200 years after
"Best you retIre but as for me, nunquam ego
~ wang It pou
Kt went mto Corea, "ablre decere", lest the hne be no more
And m sprmg time
assembled at Meng-ford
ta houel Meng tSffi,
that had from Heou TSI under Shun by the three streams, the three rivers,
Pmg, Foung were their cIties, and North-East to Mount K. t
Tan Fou, to Kmg Wan
"Our dynasty came m because of a great sensibility " Les mreurs furent reformees,
II
Nat after tlus dynasty "
la vertu fleunt
Ad Meng vadum,
south bank of the Yellow RIver,
Huang Ho
551
IV
? Heaven and Earth begat the perceIver, ceeh' e' dltta dentro"
& Cheou demlttlt aerumnas Llng2
Ts'oung
tan
was basIs of rule
lit
mlng 11 tso luen
HlI
Che6u deInlttlt aerumnas "Gendemen from the West,
heou
Heaven's process IS qUIte coherent and Its maln pomts perfectly clear
f t l i hSIen iRM
Wu it leant on the yellow halbard
m lus nght, the wlute SIgnal tatl
"e canta la gallina,
" he IS ganged up WIth racketeers fa 6 steps or 7, reform
Ie 4, S, 7 strokes, reassemble
? nat tcheu t'sl
ll. : cheu t'sl
and do not chase fugItIves " Che6u's host was hke a forest m Mu plaIn,
quasI sI1vam convemt
"LIkmg some, dlshkmg others, domg IDJusoce to no man II
The 4th part margmaha
LIU dogs, serendIpIty;) No
1'13
P'J t ' o u n g
kouan 96
T'oung kouan nal chenn
553
? not water, Oll lU ChOUll
~
m nun
13: There be thy nurrour In men
XIII, 9
k'l p'eng
lIen 1012
?
tp J!
8
i'f
~
Jt
1m 554
Tan lue
, pel
hou~g
Odysseus "to no man"
? tcho
and you can know the SIncere That Tch'eng T'ang
PraestanoSSlmos regere
from Tch'eng T'ang to Tl I
nullus non splendIdas fecIt,
nullus non se SOClavlt k'l tche, ut benefaceret
(tlen4)
Tcheau neIther watchIng Ius
own mSIdes, nor respectIng the workmgs Our Dynasty came In because of great Lmg2
? - . . . . ::=. .
'M& -~~! . -
sensIbility
555
overthrew lIla
? ~
The arrow has not two pOInts
J\ "0 nombreux officlers
, P1
pOll eul cheu pu erh4
Imperator alt
. . .
~
it
T cognovIt aerumnas
TSOU KIA reIgned 33 years
it
au TING 1324 1265
Ct
--. . . J Iterum dico
i(
T'AIMEOU 1637 1562
556
weI
? lE Z,
XV II ~ naught above Just contrIbutIon
IDVlcem docentes :Ie SIU F=J
tcheng
tcheu
koung
that IS Sagetneb
~ ngo W e flop If we cannot mamtam the awareness
Dlutuma cogttes
respect the awareness and
tram the fit men
IJJJmingngotslon {I
chun4 1727 Mat
XVI 4 10
'-- a? -
laa6
cluao, I
4
557
hsu, m the first tone
M283S
XVI 20
? Cdn't see It (mlng) could
. . extend to the people's Subsldla,
that It was m some fine way tIed up wIth the people "And don't pester your officers"
"Don't get into small dog-fights
Hto kouJOll kouan
"Get the mot Juste before actIon"
XIX 18
XX16
touan cf The Ta Sen
Awareness restful & fake IS faogumg
XXI 7 nor laws as a means of oppreSSIon
Not all tlungs from one man
Ii
That IS, In some cases, charIty IOU loung te nat ta
18
JJ beau The S laws have root m an awareness
,he Junge
awareness extended chong XXI, 14
? "One of those days", said BrancusI,
Ilwhen I would not have given
"IS nunutes of my tIme
for anything under heaven "
Dead In the Plazzale Loreto,
In Holohan's case, murder protected
Jury trial was m Athens Tyrants resIsted
OU 't'<Xu"C'rx xcxxoLen 8e:r. AL<<V Kmg Owen had men about mm
Prmce of KOllO,
Houng leo, San I Cheng
as the hand gnps the wheat, RIsked the smoke to go forward
Sagetneb
NOTE Kung slUd he had added notlung Canto 85 18 a somewhat detaUed con fbmatlon of Kung S VIew that the basic pnnclples of government are found In the Shu the HIstory ClassIc The numencal references are to Couvreur 8 Chou Kmg Meanmg of the Ideograms 1S usually given In the Enghsh text, transhteratl0ns as 10 Couvreur and Mathews
559
apenens tIbl ammum
? W I T H solIcItude
LXXXVI
it
IV XVI 18
that InlrrOurl. d turbatlonem,
BIsmarck forgotten, fantaSIa \vlchout balance-wheel,
'No more wars after '70" (BIsmarck) "Dunlmhelt, nlcht Boshelt/' saId old Margherlta
(or Elenor~ dowager)
tltl Sono tuttI eretlcl, Santo Padre,
ma non sono cattlvl "
MInd (the Kalser's) hke loose dIce m a box Ballin saId "If I had known,
wdj Indeed have stuffed all Hamburg wIth graIn" Bulow belIeved rum But Talleyrand set up BelgIum, Two dynastIes, two buffer states,
wdj have set Poland
So that BelgIum saved Frogland, SVlzzera neutral XVI 20 only two of us who will roll up our sleeves And BranCUSl repeatmg Je peux commencer
une chose tous les Jours, mats funl111r
~ hstanga
XVU,7
Lostthefedofthepeople ? XVlll, 19
Jib.
-',
? way repeatedly not clean, nOIsy, & your hearts loveless 2. 2 Get men, It will grow
Milites Instar ursorum, XXlll, 5, men strong as bears
Not m two nunds
Echctorum
ta seu tel. wUn te1 taluun
Joung touan
lao
Qws erudtet WIthout documenta>
even barbarIans who button theIr coats t'other way on 13 Non penturum
MenCIUS, chI4 (453, Mathews)
hue sm (XXIV, IS)
leadIng to
(XXlV, II)
? MOUW ANG
repeating the
f~ ~
1:
=?
~
Kmg MOll
tou
tchoung
tchen
1001-946
to K1un la,
3rd of hIS lIne m office "TheIr names are banner'd,
year'd on the T'al Tch'ang
the
Now my turn for thm lee and tIgers Live up to your hne
and the constitution ?
etlam habitus msplclendus
tch'ang
? A
It may depend on one man
as In the case of Edwardus
and von Hoesch on the telephone to good for three years,
or to eVIl
Eva's pa heard that on the telephone,
but forgetful of BIsmarck,
lost to all 14
"No wars after '70"
"NICht Boshelt, DummheltJ"
"Sono tuttI eretICl, Santo Padre, ma non sono cattlvl "
It can't be all m one language"
"They are all prots YR HOLINESS, but not bad
? Yes yr/ HolIness, they are all of thcnl prats"
fewdj have filled Halnburg \Vlth grain "
"No, MISS Wl'let, on account of blschruz relations" 20 years to crush Bonaparte,
gold through France Into Spaul The purchase and sale of
Geschaft,
and Buchanan's remark about monarchies
(18so to PIerce)
mentlolllng only those on the ContInent questIon;l England not yet sold for the Suez- That would have been 20 years later,
or was It '74>
At any rate, sold down the rIver,
passed over Parhament, "whatever else he belIeved In,
It was not representatIve govemmept' Nor vIsible responslbultles
All, that has been, IS as It should have been, but what wJ. 11 they trust In
P~IEI
"AlIa non della", In the Verona statement 00 ~tXU't'C't xC'tx. o! crt
now'
Sectlon Rock Drill
Alexander patd the debts of hIs soldIery
thought there was a catch In It somewhere, but he set up
the tables
at camp's edge, "Any note will be paid" OBIT apud Babylomos
They
? (date out of Arrlan) And 111 the great Hamurabl InscrIptIon
That IS the Reglus ProfessorshIps
THEY LIED
(apud Chris Hollis)
to falsIfy hIstory
and Impose the WhIg pOInt of VIew
"Such hatred"
wrote Bowers,
and La Spagnuola saymg
"We are perfectly useless, on top,
but they la. lled the baker and cobbler"
"Don't wnte me any more thIngs to tell hIm (scrIpslt Woodward, WE)
CIon these occaSIons
HE
talks" (End quote) "What" (Cato speakmg) ctdo you thInk of
murder:t"
But some Habsburg or other ploughed Ius Impenal furrow,
And old Theresa's road IS still there m BelgIum Tree-shadowed
and her thalers were current In AfrIca,
standard m our tIme,
"characters by theIr COInage" , Cleopatra wrote of her comage
(Joseph two, verIfy) ploughed Ins furrow)
? Up out of Tuscanv, LeopoldIne "We don't hate anybody "
Quoted Konody, We fight when our Emperor says so "
(AustrIans 1914) "Decent chaps" (Schwartz'43)
'a shame that we have to fight 'em " U MalS Ie prusslen'
Le prUSSlen
c'est un clue homme "
SaId the aged femme de menage WIth four teeth out
"Vous voullez me rouler,
,
mats ous ne me
roulerez pas, upaaasque Je SOlS trop rosse "
htlgant1um dona
non coelum non In medIa
but man IS under Fortuna
~ that IS a forced translationr La donna che volgo
fel
pao
Man under Fortune,
CHEN
. . - ---. ~ - . . . . .
~-- --~
1~? -
? Iou Wang, 770
Kmg Jou
hlled by barbarIans
Houo
and a red bow
wIth a hundred arrows
m angustns me defendIstl, "Millet wme, fragrant,
and a black bow
and a hundred arrows
ne muttle qwescas ' "Will not rustle cattle,
will not take oxen and horses, will close all traps and pItfalls
end quote
that they have set for wlld game"
Pe fa K'in ?
order for mobilizatIon agamst msurrecoon by trtbes from t'other s1de of the HOU31 rIver
? m tIme of
PX
WANG ?
WIll not traIpse Into peoples' fields chasulg fugItives, real or
U m eleven days we Will go Into SUI, prepare your provISIons"
end quote
ClOn these occaSIons
HE
talks" end quote, Woodward '36
Eleven lIterates
TCH'ENG
and I suppose DWIght L Morrow" re Senate enrollment
Br c g questIon> about '32
01 hysterIC preSIdIng over It all" '39 House, ForeIgn RelatIons
Bellum cano perenne
1115-1? 78
? LXXXVII
between the usurer and any man who wants to do a good Job
(perenne) WIthout regard to productlon-
a charge
for the use of money or credIt "Why do you want to
- perche SI vuol mettere- your Ideas In order~"
Date '32
OrGrock au~a~ (J'a1 une Idee)
Groek au s:a~
Berchtold as If been blown up by dynanute,
Calm on the surface
If I had known more then,
cd/ have asked hIm,
as Varclu- one wantmg the facts Of Roanoke, EIGHTEEN 3I
"NatIon SIlly to borrow Its own " Polk, Tyler, an honour roll
paldeuma fadmg,
Buchanan still fairly clean,
InfantIlIsm lncreasIng cll our tIme,
attentIon to outlet, no attentIon to source,
That IS the problem of Issue
? Who Issues It) How'
And after the year 1600 Nakac TOJl
carrIed WaI' Ya'
(name worn out In SOIne dlalc. . . cts)
MIn's lamp to NIppon The total dIrt that was Roosevelt,
and the farce that was ChurchIll
(vIde Grenfell ref phoney war)
"But", saId Antonlnus,
"Law rules the sea' I I And that dle state shdj have benefit
from prIvate mIsfortune,
not In my tIme, not under me '
UntIl Salmaslus, wantmg preCISion
Want, xpe(lX, 'tCommon practice'" sdjArl re bUSIness,
"Cogltatlo, meditatiO, contemplatlo" Wrote RIchardus, and Dante read hIm
Centrum clrcuh
Remove the mythologIes before they estabhsh clean values "Europe" sald Plcabla
"exhausted by the conquest of Alsace-Lorrame " Vlamlnck 't IS local II (I Art IS "
The pusillanImous wantIng all men cut down to worm size W ops, maggots, crumbled from sImple dIshonesty
~ ,~
otCXtJOpOV
Ver novum
are protected of course,
hte est medium
,~, 't:' e . . . . qUIa ImpossIbl1e est
6'
Eoea't"ov e~ cx. lJTOU <:p r,ver. 7tpoc; xa. XOLar.
570
1-
? Was not unanImous
,A6&. va. broke tIe, That IS 6 Jurors agaInst 6 Jurors
needed 'A6cXvcx RIght, all ofIt, was under Shang
save what came m Athens Y YIn, Ocellus, Erlgena
"All tlungs are lIghts II Greek tags In Engena's verses
And when they bumped off Alexander m Babylon that wrecked, SaId Golhevskl "a good deal"
Greece had no Quattrocento ]ustmlan's codes meffiClent
"abblamo fatto un mucchlO (a haystack oflaws on paper)
Mus VIva voce "We ask 'em to settle between 'em
If they can't, the State Intervenes" They deny, of course, but It percolates, Ocellus
JIh a
the faInt green In sprIng tIme
The play c;haped from cPAoy",6JLEVOJl
gospoda . 6. 'YjavE? pa, AaJL1Tpa uVJLfial,VEL 571
chlh In the 3rdj tone and a radIcal
? From the dawn blaze to sunset "What has been, should have
tAll nletal as barter' Destutt or whomso,
"PIty to stamp save by weIght" Always the undertow,
gold-bugs agaInst ANY ordLr, SeekIng the common (as Arl says)
for squeeze
directio voluntatis It An mstrument of pohcy
even more than a measure" SaId Douglas (C H) and the squlrmcrs plunder ll1en's ll11nd,
wantmg all nlen cut down to worm-SIze itA few" said Jean C
m poelu,
"gros lcgunlcs '
causa motuum,
pIne seed sphttlng chff's edge
Only sequoIas are slow enough BmBul tllS beauty
"Slowness IS beauty " from the
572
practice
Ku
to Polctlers
? The tower whereIn, at one pOInt, IS no shadow, and Jacques de Molay, IS where>
and the "SectIon", the proportIons,
lendIng, perhaps, not at Interest, but reSIstIng
Then false fronts, barocco
"We have", saId Menclus, ((but phenomena"
monumenta In nature are sIgnatures needIng no verbal tradItIon,
oak leaf never plane leaf John Heydon ~eAAo( sleep there on the ground
And old Jarge held there was a tradItion, that was not mere epIstemology
Mohamedans will remam,- naturally- unconverted If you remove houns from ParadIse
as to hSIn
In short, the cosmos contmues
and there IS an observatIon somewhere m Mornson
leachng to Remy)
Bombs fell, but not qUIte on Sant'AmbrogIo
Baccin saId I planted that
tree, and that tree (UhVl)
MonSIeur F saw lus mentor composed almost wholly of hght
(Wmdeler's VISIon lus letter file the SIze of 2 lumps of sugar,
but the sheet legIble Santa Teresa
Butchers of lesser cattle, theIr villam the gram god Fell between horns, but up
and the murmur "salta sm barra,"
573
? There IS no such play for a goat
Tho' Mr PaIge has descrIbed LIgurIan butchery, And the huntIng trIbes require some preparatIon Mont Segur, sacred to Hchos,
and for what had been, San Btrtrand de Commmges "Whtrcvtr"
saId Frobemus ((we fmd thcst. . drawings, we find water at not more than 6 feet,
And the headless clay hons leave place for the head" SqwrrI1s wlute, perhaps before a hard WInter, oak cats, Inchans say when hIgh weeds
As the water-bug casts a flower 011 stolle
nel batro,
One InteractIon Te I i InteractIon A shadow~
t Bomb mmdown He comes up agam" saId the sergeant detaIled perhaps to Impress me
Und tey vere dhere, shentlcnlClill,
mIt tearsz hroiling tdown dhere vaces
"Gentleinennn, ShlIln bones' t"
ecstacy at a mathematIcal congress, ottocento
The bone IS In fact constructed,
accordmg to trIgonometrlcal wluchwhat Shinbones'
Wmch Illustrated Speech as a medium, the problem of order
But an econOmIC Idea wIll not (Mencken auctor) go mto them In less than a geologIcal epoch
ctNowt better than share (Menclus) nor worse than a fixed" charge "
That IS the great chapter, Menclus III, I, fiI, 6
574
? T'ang Wan Kung -. l: pu erh "Why must say profit
llJ (the gram cut) Who leave the sun out of
chili
RehgIon;l WIth no dancIng gIrls at the altar~ REhgIon~
CytharIstrlae
VIde Neruda's comment,
but focus, can they even ammadvert on focus;l
or true edItIonS)
"or even the use of process) That fme old word"
sdj "Stmk' Saunders,
"An mdependence"
The nOmlgnolo not reflectmg on character but at that tIme, 1900 or thereabouts, apphed to all professors of chermstry
And they COWlt on the amount ofcoherence, the amount of endurance,
duratIons, Henry's remarks on "dissolvmg VIew"
No chchotomy
Should be regIstered
ChIefs' names on a monument,
575
? Seepage,
the elan, the block,
dIssolutIon
Or as Henry agaIn "we have, In a manner ofspeakIng, arrived
Got to, I thm. k he says "got to, all got to "
The UblClty, ascertainIng
Was De Molay makIng loans WIthout mterest~ Church councl1s bumbhng Fanatics do not understand
mterest justtce, dIrectIo voluntatIs,
or contemplatlo as RJchardus defined It m BenJamm Major Old crocks to che In a bug-house
Gallagher (Patnck) mentioned London loans to TIbet,
an old colonel turned agamst masonry
And as to what old T F saw m the Treasury probably nothmg
TIgers mourn SIkandar
? LXXXVIII
It was Saturday the 1st day o f AprIl, toward noon, the Senate not beIng that day In seSSIon
came to my room at Brown's askmg was I Mrs Clay's blood-relatIon>
Prompt m agreeIng to meet exact m protestIng Clay's nght to callIum 'Col Tatnall, the bearer,
IS authorIzed
Was defiance of Adams, not Clay,
In the senate speech, but to Jessup had SaId
He would WaIve prIvIlege,
wruch constItutes a very palpable dtfference
Vague report that he had saId that Salazar's letter bore earmarks
("blackleg")
WInch led to absolute challenge absolutely accepted,
By whIch tIme It had become "forgery" (Jessup to Tatnall)
'Forged or manufactured"
(Tatnall quotmg lus prIncIple Charlotte Jury W dj find presumptIve strong hkeness
,In pomts of style to other papers,
Not proof but SUspICIon, for whIch he dechned to offer
explanatIon
Adams and Clay were for entanglement
RIght bank, whIch IS m VIrgIwa *
above brIdge of the LIttle Falls
ten paces
577
? * where there was a law agaInst du<. . lhng
I alone knew how he meant to avoId that
I went to Clay's on the FrIday, the youngest chtld
went to sleep on the sofa
Mrs Clay, as always Since the death of her daughter,
the pIcture of desolatIon But calm and conversable
Clay and I parted at midnIght Saturday, Randolph's, Georgetown, Could not ask hIm
but menttoned the cluld asleep on the sofa He sald
"I shall do nothing to cUsturb Its sleep or the repose of Its mother',
and went on makmg COdlCllS for thmgs of shght value, To Macon, some enghsll shdhngs to
keep game when he played whIst, YOWlg Bryan sent back to school to
save hIm shock If and so forth Wanted gold, coms not then m cIrculatIon,
sent Johnny to Branch bank to get a few pIeces, who returned, saYIng they had none
"They are hars from the begnung My HORSE'" which was brought rum, for he never rode Johnny's Down Penn Avenue to what IS now Corcoran, RJ. ggs,
Johnny behmd mm at 40 paces Asked for the state of his account The teller
took up packages of bills and
asked 1n what size notes he wd/ have It
? 'I want money "
saId Mr Randolph
The teller, begImng to understand lum, saId Suver~ liMy MONEY'" saId Mr Randolph
'Have you a cart, Mr Randolph~11 By that orne the casluer
told hIm there was a nustake m the answer to Johnny and that he shdj have what he wanted
He got It, and closed the account, Returned and gave me an envelope
to open If he were kl1led,
And a shp to read before I got to the ground
to feel m Ius breeches pocket
nme pIeces, I thInk It was,
3 for me, Tamall, Hanulton, each
to make seals of, as mementos We were all three then at hIS lodgmgs
He and the seconds took carrIage, I followed on horseback
HIs (R's) stepfather
brought out a "Blackstone"
The place was a tluck forest m whIch a htcle depreSSIon or baSIS
Bellum perenne
1694 on what It creates out of notlung 1750 shut down on coloma! paper Lexmgton,
J
'64 "greatest blessmg ' sald Lmcoln
1878 I n CIrculatIon as currency sangue,fattca, ill our tIme
(a D 1804)
579
? And thert l~, undoubtldl), blood on theIr slIver, WIthout honour I11tn sUlk. Into servItude ResponsIble, or lrrtSpOnSlblc govcrnment'
MlmnlUlll of land \\ Ithout surveIllance And as to plcragc
I Edward VI, c 12
lords of parhalllcnt and plcrs of the rcalm, havIng place and voys In parhanlcnt Illav have bencfit of theIr peerage, equlv/ that of clclgy, for first offence, thot gh they cannot read, and \\rIthout beIng burned In the hand, for all offences then clergyable and also for housebreakIng for robbery on the hIgh-ways, horse stealIng and robbIng of churches
Hal P C 377 The books of a scholar, hIs countenance (walnagIum)
that of a VIllc111 That these are the HIstorIes
OR
Thus recapItulate
That T'ang opened tht. copp<. . r nunc
(dlstrlbutlVl. functIon of nlont. . . y)
Notlung all whIch he l<. . alls, tht. chuntze, under heaven
should have nothing on which he leans, Or monopoly, Thales, comlnon pr1. ctIce, but dIrty, Antonlnus lent money at four percent
that belng the summit of EmpIre (Roman)
"Trymg",hesaId, "to keep some ofthe non-
mterest-bearmg natIonal debt m CIrculation as currency one, eight, seven, eIght,
Menclus on tIthIng,
? Cano perenne,
PERENNE
I belIeve the Dal Gaku Belasclo or Topaze, and not have It sqush,
a "throne", somethmg God can SIt on without haVIng It sqush,
WIth greek tags ill Ius excellent verses, Erlgena,
In reign of Carolus CalvllS "Captans annonam
maledlctus m plebe SIt'"
that was Ambrose
"Hoggers of harvest'" Delcrolx (properly) "always the same"
Get the meamng across and then qwt
SaId BaCCIn "That tree, and that tree,
II Yes, I planted that tree
Under the olIves Some saecular, some half-saecular
trees, condUIts, CIsterns, ad maJorem Dum ad Ambroslam scandet,
sacro nemon
altra che tactta
cl<pp~'t"6)p, cl6elLLcrt'Oc;, &vea't"to~
To the all-men as to the Emperor
Antonmus as apex, but on slavery and on bhoogery Not un-man, my Esthn, but all-men
chIng
lit
as
mthe4th tone
? To respect the vegetal powers
Or Mhfe however small" (Hlndoustanl)
Make hIm of wood W Ith steel sprIngs"
p to act that, trammg the chIld as
p sluh, In the ISt tone
Pere Henn Jacques still
speaks WIth the senmn on Rokku,
-These people" SaId Mr Teheou "should
be hke brothers They read the same books"
meamng chmese and Japanese Marse Adams done tor 'em
The Major done told 'em
having '\ FIrst Folto (Sh"\. ) III hI") lock-bo'\.
could afford WaItIng to see It "Every etc
downrIght corruptIon" "To the consumer" Waal, they bust the abundance
and had to pay Europe,
an' Anatole tor 'em
"no exportl No need to make war n lIe des PlnqoUll1S,
So that Perry ? opened" Japan Use of foreIgn com unw 18. 19
ExceptIon Spamsh nulled dollars,
every dealer occupIed In exportmg them, theIr exclusIon an unconsotutlonal fraud
A currency of mtrmslC value FOR WHICH
page 446
? They paId mterest to NOBODY
( ThIrty Years' , Benton) Is suppressed In favour of fluctuatIon,
thIs country a thoroughfare
page 446 column two
OBEUNT 1826, July 4
Not battlements, but that the land go to the settlers, Tanff' MonSIeur de Tocqueville
may pass tn Europe for AmerIcan lustory
Macon, Gullford "Renewal has fatled to achIeve that end In England, salt tax overthrown
Andy vetoed the Maysville Road bill tUlconvertable paper
nunes now yIeldIng
Prospects, as Peru, now ~ millIon per annum
and what IS still better, have exports Geryon's prIze pup, NIcholas BIddle
Mr Benton then proposed an amendment on Imported IndIgo 25 cents toward
prodUCIng a home supply In a valuable staple, FIrst planted In Carohnas, In or about 1740
encouraged by George, Number 2,
at outbreak of revolutIon over one m. I1hon pounds, BrItaIn then turned to IndIa and the Carolmas' product
dechned 1814 40 thousand
Our manufacturers seek It, now seek It, abroad and pay ready money at
two fifty per pound
? You cannot carry cloth wIthout Indigo,
Cotton, woolen, Importation already 2 IIll. 1hon a year And yet the South HAD four staples
(Sardegna 1954, queery) RIce, cotton, IndIgo and tobacco,
Has exported for 800 millIon,
In value to ~ the gold cOIned In MeXIco
from Cortez' tinle UlltJ. 1 now
The tarIff of 1816 murdered lndigo
Freemen do not look upward for bountIes
Freeholds, MIrza Mohammed on the perSIan Abbas' authorIty
"for productIon of barley, rIce, cotton
free of tax or of any contrIbutIon whatsodam ))
July 8, 1823 Jackson 183 to 83 for Mr Adams
no Jealousy m the North at that tIme Stay laws, stop laws, replevm
And he has abohshed the natIonal debt DId not care for relIevIng one part of the country
by taxmg another,
And New Orleans occurred In 18IS, MonSIeur de TocqueVllle may pass In Europe for AmerIcan history
m a foreIgn tongue GUIlford
Made Yorktown possIble In 1828 Macon retIred Used plough and hoe unci he was SIXty
r&v &cp6ttrov a. x<X~&:t'<Xv &7tO-rpUE"C'CXr. And to receIve all guests m Ins house,
Drew a kmfe to defend Mr Randolph Unnecessary duratIon of wInch (1 e DEBT)
IS IncompatIble WIth real mdependence,
? Counteract proflIgacy publIc and prIvate wlnch profuse outpourIng IS apt to engender
Confirmed MartIn Van Buren, Jas Hamuton son of
the late General HamIlton, Ingham, BerrIen, Barry
For defence, not for conquest,
dIrect trade wIth the West IndIes
(124)
And at the foundatIon o f the northwestern states
Nathan Dane drew It, excludmg serVItude Save It were by the will of the servmg
ORDINANCE
passed not by the North alone
Repeal of the salt tax
And has already been shown by A J's first message
then vetoed the MaySVIlle Road To pull down, InsuffiCIent
WtilIng to see a currency ofhard money (under CIrcumstance A T that tIme)
as France SInce the tIme o f mandats and assignats Filled France WIth metals,
haVIng neIther mInes In her land, nor yet exports WInch command otllers' speCIe
Ours yIeld half a ml1hon per annum, Our nunes do,
and above mInes we have exports HIs reference to
Parnells, Humes, Elllces, Wm Pultneys Was laId on the table
but prmted
"Was now actmg as pawn-broker
? on systcln entIrely contrary to InstitutIon's 111tentl0l1 SaId Mr HUlnc (Joseph)
"PrivIleges" sdj EllIce
tcwhlCh belonged to 110 other contraption'
Mr Benton proceedIng AmerIcan
part of the stockholders, I would not n. ,ply to foreIgn
Must have known thIs They
have laId up real estate of three trulhon
pecuhar prlvJ1eges enabled them to make profits stock-holders ought to be grateful
at 46 m the hundred SCIRE FACIAS
InstItutIon too great and too powerful, The VIce President directed that Mr Benton proceed DIrect power prodIgIous boundless emISSIOns,
To whom IS thIS power granted ~
In a renlote corner, a company
By whom dIrected;)
By seven, by four, nont. . . by thc people elected
Nor responSible to them
EncroachIng on power of States,
monopoly absolute Gt Brltall1 m '95, had been noted
((WIsh of the Court of Directors" Pohncal as well as pecumary Such
a bank tends to subjugate government, It tends to collUSIons,
to borrow 50 and pay back one hundred, It tends to crc. . ate pubhc DEBT
586
complaInts
? 1694 Loan One MIllion 200,000 Interest 80,000, EApenscs 4
GERM, nucleus, and IS now 900 MIllIon It tends to beget and prolong useless wars,
aggravate InequahtIes, make and break fortunes "To carry on trade of bankmg
upon the revenues,
and In the name of the
Umted States,
to pay revenues to the
Government
In Its own (the bank's own) notes ofpronuse To
Hold Umted States moneys
m depOSIt, WIthout makIng compensatIon,
To dIscredIt other banks and dIsparage 'em, to hold real estate, and retaIn a
body of tenantry, To
set branches In States WIthout theIr consent or approval, to be exempt from habIhty If they fau,
To have the U S for a partner, and to have partners outSIde tIns country,
To be exempt from the regular admUl1stratlon ofjusnce, and to have all thIS In
Monopoly
Y eas
Barnard, Benton, to 2 0 Nays 23Webster,Wll- ley
That It faIled to produce a unIform currency, Issued illegal and VICIOUS paper
"payable at Phtladelphy"
? LXXXIX T o know the hlstorltS
And know whom to trust
ChI crescera (ParadIso)
to know good from evIl
ChIng Hao
('of SOcIetIes" saId Emanuel Swedenborg Mr Jefferson luung up for LOUIS PlulIppe,
a fact wInch shd have been known to M de Tocquev111t
PrIvIlege to serVt WIth KIng and Macon & JOh11 Taylor of CarolIne
Entanghng allIance WIth nOIlL,
would be from th<. . lr cultIvation,
That IS to say revenue [roln the waste lands would be Freedom not favoured by tenantry,
conlpare as above Abbas MIrza "wheat, cotton, barley" July 1823
As to whether law cd/ be abohshed by IndIan treaty to whIch the c'enhghtened classes" had sunk
Macon mentIoned lulisides for grave yards Mr Webster erroneous
ObIt Plcabla 2 Dec '53
59?
? And paper cd/ be left to the states Filled France wIth precIous metals
when England WIth her overgrown bank and France had no mInes for these metals
PublIc debt Increased (England) 400 nullion
Debt born of the Bank of England by paper, when the Bank, on Its own declaratIon,
(187)
had not a s1ulhng
Profuse Issues,
Sudden contractIons
By power of "construction"
Branch forced on Alabama,
trade m bills Ersatz for products
(199)
Hence WAR, 30 years later
Prototype m Threadneedle St faIled overtradmg
Our OWN money lent 'em and WE
paId one and one half millIon mterest
and more serIOUS the POhtlcal aspect
As agamst Its hug as well as Its blow,
I speak of SIr W llham Pulteney Narne for name, lang for kIng
:? wang
:? wang
ForeIgners own 7 mdhon usury at 46 In ViolatIon,
If benefiCIal, why not several) 591
CONstrued
? Adams match for ~ the House tIll the last, Randolph scourge of corruptIon
"An advantage, Mr Van Buren"
2 buffer states and 3 dynastIes
(Aukland at Talleyrand's)
Ca'OUT, tiSSt/ore
Auctor Good God you don't mean they're worse than the
Borah ('Eh e No,
I eh can't say that e
('BorrowIng Its own
(the NatIon's own)
exactly"
money"
SaId Randolph of Roanoke,
"And payIng Interest"
TarIff promoted sectIonal feelIng
ExceSSIve Issues, all on pubhc deposlt~
Treasury wdj pay one hundred Cents on the $
for what cdj be had for odd 60 As IndIan stiver m our tlD1C
21 but the suckers paId 7S
Catron (I thInk It was) had shown horse-sense If our government must
70 nulhon,
~ehercule ventuDl' WIth bOWIe kmves
pre- not ex-officIo
Do our cottons sold In Canton & Calcutty
sell mOl1opohes' sd/ Andy Jackson
other gang~
? need such protectIon at home ~ And do not tax salt, said Aurehan
Mr Taney
Burr dId hJ. s Job 20 years late MonSIeur Vebbstalr voulalt lezarder
Ut moveat, ut doceat, ut dllectet & J Q A objectIng to slavery
Roman law 2/3rds hogswoggled by same
Old John on fundmg, old John, VIde Infra, qUIte a wa. y,
on depreCIatIon,
or on bemg mercantl1e,
llAnd If the bills be bottomed " sd/ Mr Jefferson loc Cit to Crawford 1816
From our own mInes, metal
1824 5,000 N Carohna
1833 868,000 (SIX states)
and m '34 presumably will be 2 Inlllyum
and a greater source 15 our foreIgn commerce From Napoleon Consulllto tIns day '34"
have been speCIe payments
Mr Hamllton set IS to one, IS stiver one gold, when m Spam, Portugal It was SIxteen,
From Natchez and N'Yoleans doubloons
and to suppose metal will stay WIth us when the exporter
can gaIn one buck on every 15 carrIed out doubloons, gUIneas, half-Joes
and; to depart from the great senator's most courteous language,
6 suspenSIons till 1819,
exclUSion of foreIgn COIn part of the system
593
? a currencv (foreIgn cOIn ,vas) for whIch they paId trIbute to no one" au TIS
NottlIng In course of exchanges to
cart") SpCCl<" fronl AtlantIc States to the West
Page refs/ to 'ThIrty yC'ar~ VIl\V'
and as for the Adanlscs, Brooks and Henry,
tIlly '"cnt back to theIr grandfather, dratt 'em, and not back to old Jolm
Under headIng DOMESTIC MANUFACTURES EXPORTED $ TWO MILLION oh five eIght four seven four
the lughest and most delIcate sovrelgnty
tho charter forbade 'em dealm In com
POWER vested not In one, but m 3 parts of government
Every CIty protect Its o\\n commerce Gold pontlfex, SlIver wangled, Bronze was to certalIl cItIes,
vld MOlnmsen
And sovrclgnty m the power to Issue
Benton's when) when there was metal
Benton's why no Interest to be paId The Government ceases to be mdependent
when currency IS at wIll of a company page 450 I
All property IS at theIr mercy
eel have a fnend" SaId Voltalre
Drove out not gods, but the Emperor, Imperator remarked Del Mar
"rattos m Rome and m the Onent"
Government wanted <<of deposit, not cIrculatIon"
594
? WIthout mstorlc black-out
they cannot mamtaln perpetual wars
Tmey ('34) showed an Increase
m all branches of revenue
Benton b 1782, d 1858
"'How often had they been told trade was paralyzed
& shIps Idle;J
"HId the books but cd/ not Jude weekly statements" "In speCIe and WIthout mterest
Agamst whIch such a bank IS a nUIsance"
16 to I for above 300 years In the Spamsh domimons AgaInst BIddle one mllhon and some clucken feed
for winch no vouchers are found Levan facIas LOUIS Philippe suggested that
Jackson stand :firm and not sugar lus language
Pubhc debt was extmgwshed 1834
8 yueh4-S 595
? ThIS quotatIon IS not [rOIn Mr Webster
Clay opposed mInts 111 New Orleans and North Carohna The CIvIl War rooted In tarIff
Pluladelphla dId not diffuse,
France had ten mInts, and m Me>. J. co there are 8, Every CItizen now more or less cheated
Mr B said he had but two bank-notes both of them counterfeIt
French currency had stood two revolutIons, one conquest, 20 mIllIons entered that country,
no Interest was paid for Its use Land not safe agaInst 'Issue"
Crops not safe agamst "Issue"
Sovrelgnty IS In the rIght over COInage
"All that It (the Bank) creates out ofnothIng IJ 600 banks to be broken,
FIctItIOUS woe, and the Senate's organized sorrow "My fellow slave-holder"
sdj Mr Randolph
(masnatosque hberavlt) "Ef my bull-dog" SaId Mr BIshop
to a co-detenuto "had a face hlce yours, hang'd If
I wouldn't shave Ius arse and make hIm walk: backwards" And In the tIme ofMr Randolph, Mr Benton, Mr Van Buren
he, Andy Jackson
POPULUM AEDIFICAVIT
wInch mIght end tlus canto, and rhyme WIth Slglsmundo
Commander Rogers observed that the sea was sprInkled WIth fragments of West IndIa frUIt
? and followLd that vestige
GIles talked and lIstened,
more lIstened, and dId not read
Y oung ]l. SSlC dId not forward dIspatches
so Frt. I110nt proctedcd to,vard the North West and ,",c ultlnlat<Jy enlbraced Cahforny
The COlllIlg\Vood I11anncd 80 guns 'Those who wIsh to talk
May leave now" saId ROSSIIll,
"Madame Blleau IS gomg to play"
tlTrade, trade,
trade'"
Sang Lamer
Van Buren already In '37 ullsmeanng Talleyrand And the elderly AIda, then a gIrl of 16, In the '905, \tlsltlng SOUle very stIff frIends In New England
gIggled (and thereby provoked sour expressIons)
when some chl1dren crossed the front lawn with
a bottlt. , ofwater strung on a strIng between them and chantmg
"MartIn Van Buren, a bottle of urIne"
Sagetrleb, or the
oral tradItIon
"Ten men", saId Ubaldo, "who will charge a nest of machme
for one who will put Ius name on crut " ,tNo dog, no goat"
saId Pumpelly 597
guns
? SaId Bonaparte ImagInatIon 220 rIflemen and one pIece of artIllery "To enVIron us" saId Mr DIX
liThe IrIsh are devout, moral, IndustrIoUS" he even SaId soher
KIt Carson sea-sIck Cludad de los Angeles
That g sounded as h 3 days WIth no food but rosebuds,
Che taIga 10 stato
Don Jesus broke hIs parole
Guadalupe ('48) HIdalgo
Out of von Humboldt AgassIz, Del Mar and Frohemus
The wrong way about It despaIr (I thmk that IS In Benton)
Randolph of Roanoke Charlotte Court House, '32, Henry's paSSIon fiddlIng, dancIng and pleasantry
(PatrIck Henry)
'We ought not to have turned you out"
saId some old crump to Van Buren
"Great blackguard from Tennessee, by name ofJackson"
No auctIon of slaves here In the CapItal' T~v ~wv o:Acuv ocpX~v
Slave labour IS very expensIve
But for PrIce, Sloat mIght damn well have lost It
Quam parva saplentia regltur
Macauley somewhat extravagant In conclUSions, Palmerston never expressIng what he dId not belIeve
? "was pltascd 25 ytars later to find hIm
at thl head of the gOVl. rnment "
Jury [rOIn thl vlcl11agL
And Dlsrach sold the brlt fools down the rIver
It was a. Tory not a Llblral \\"ho gave up the rIght ofsearch
Galileo fronl Mang tzu
cahglnem vespertmam
7tUpc. ucrL\I . ICXL 1'~~ Soc) &. "C'1'"'1)~
cCAnd here arc Caleb Johnson and two others
as demure" (saId T H B) as three whores at a christemng " That Calhoun called hIm a quadruped
FIrm taste for good company
eVInced by both Benton and Mr Van Buren, and men even 111 our tlnle (survIvals)
as DOlnvlle and dlgh Ubertl
"HIS agreeable nIece, la Duchesse de Dino "
Betrayed Mlhallovltch, assaSslnatld Henriot and GentIle
"ChIna, the longest, and wIth the lowest per cent of burocracy
200 ycar~" saId the Enlp(,. ror 'and no trouble' Benton no trouble, no treaty
,cAnd mark Inc, wrote Cambrlhng,
c'lf S/ don't default In four years
'(I'll swallow the Treasury " Tazewell
wdj see more fun pItchIng qUOIts than standing round the Court of St James
"Of great suavity and gentleness of deportment, Mr Van Buren"
599
? An experIment on hIS nerves was resolved 011, Had Crab such crystal, WInter were as a day You cannot make marIners out of slaves
and the mud, mud, SaId GUInicelh Mr Tyler
Jln A
4(even Ifan mdependent press cd/ be found to attempt It"
M Hotttnguer aParts
Vlcountess BarrIngton Lady Bloomfield
defended by Theslger and other emInent counsel and they got 14 years transportatIon,
The sub-treasury was revIved
Lows Plllhppe wdj not let them cut down theIr notes to 200
From '34 to '41 our speCIe rose to 100 mIllIon,
J
ad valorem ' InvolVIng a horde of appraIsers
W rIght spoke to mInd not to paSSIons and he It was brought In Polk
QUlditas, remarked D Ahghlerl Under head of ('medICIne" whtskey, coal, harness,
hay, corn, stoves, beef & mutton a'&v&pW1t<OV t8ev
Fremont, WIth small arms and one howItzer,
So that after two hours entered der Schwlegersohn,
conSIdered the famIly's low In IntellIgence (tWas sagt er~"
Herr Marcher Der Jud will Geld
600
? 4 NeIther by force nor by fraud, that there be no co(. rC1011, either by force or by fraud,
That IS law'~ purpose, or should be t Ae~\I'1 s\vung the hung JUry
tuan, there are four ofthem
chen, beyond ataraXIa
From Charlemagne's graIn prIce, Vemce, Hansa, to the forged DonatIon l I of ConstantIne" Perche In ardIne" (vuol metter Ie sue Idee)
saId Mussol1Il1 Thalers from Marla Teresa,
a road stIll there In BelgIum The Emperor's furrow,
Ant0111nUS Law rules the sea, nleall111g Lex Rhedl,
they mIxed In money rent, and Insurance,
ThIS section IS labled R o c k DrIll
W dj have packed Hanlburg wIth grain Bulow belIeved lum
And to young WIndsor we owe three years' peace "What he meant to us In those days"
saId old Image (Selwyn) referrIng to Ruskm Tasso, KIdd, RaleIgh, allJaIled
My father (General Fremont) sald that Ifanyone shot Napoleon It ought not to be from lus (Fremont's) wmdow
My grandfather boosted Morse' telegraph
601
? ltPlge-mol Ie type" saId old Gustav
qUI VOllS pelndra un fautcull carthaglnols
Henry J had Coburn take photographs
I need add nothIng, wrote Van Buren, to the descrIptIon
by Col Benton
'Good-bye Tazewell, good-by Van Buren'"
(that was Randolph)
I on borrowed capItal, very unmercantlIc,
saId John Adams Judge Marshall, father of war
Agamemnon lalled that stag, against huntmg rItes "Leave the Duke, go for gold "
And they forged those thalers, In our tIme, quest'oggl
BrIts dId, nacherly BrIts dId
"Benton has begun understandmg me"
In VenIce the bread prIce was stable,
shIp models stIll there In DanzIg
Alex saId set up the tables,
any soldIer's note wIll be paId
Gold was under the PontIfex, Caesar usurped that
(Randolph)
Bezants were stable till Dandolo broke mto Stamboul, there had been some arab uneaSIness
The forgery was froDl Ignorance, Valla found It
I2 to one, Roma, and about half that In KarachI And the Portagoose, as we cease not to mention,
uprooted SpIce trees
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? Orage remarked on the "receSSIon of power"
Uncle George saId he knew when he came out
(Lodge, Knox) that there wdj be one hell of a row m the Se- nate
"offensIve, defensIve"
and there was one
,50 moclang bIrds, 40 robIns,? ? wrote Randolph
and "construe all our lIbertIes from us" Mazzlnl Doverl
, XCX:t'lX acpocycXc;'? N' Yoleanz syrop proof 8
West indIes IS at 16
Not that I object to moralIty
Yes, It was Catron, had already told Jackson Shdjhave shot Clay and hung John Calhoun . ,
A J's sole repentence
And of Antorunus very bttle record remaIns
semIna motuum
Deluged the old hawk at RIp Raps, Mr BIddle pInchIng the baby,
? YOl1 damn sadIst'" saId mr cummings, ? 'you try to make people dunk"
Yes, Mr Van Buren, the Bank: IS tryIng to kIll me "
Mr Taney's statement was never refuted And as to expungmg)
that IS perhaps prose,
you can find It In Benton
SecurIng hIS (A J's) admIratIon by the ma. Jesty
Aug '33
? of Ius (Dante's) m'elect I'No clvlhzatlon" saId Kmttl,
"they got no stone" (Hrooshla) Make dIstress, on system, In order to use It
"The angrIer, the cooler he (Benton) became" We have had one "assumptIon"
EnglIsh debt could have been paId by the tIme of George Second
they prefer to send It down to posterIty
And when "EXPUNGED", A J sent back the bullet,
wluch IS, I suppose, part of parhamentary lustory dull or not, as you choose to regard It
I want Fremont lookmg at mountaIns or, Ifyou hke, Reck, at Lake Blwa,
? "From the colour the nature
& by the nature the sIgn'J)
BeatIfic spirIts weldIng together
as In one ash-tree m YgdrasaJ1
Baucls, Plulemon
xc
Animus humanus amor non est sed ab IpSO arnor procedlt, et Ideo selpso non chhglt, sed amore
Castaha IS the name o f that fount i l l the hill's fold, the sea below,
narrow beach Templum aedlficans, not yet marble,
lCAmpmon'"
----a
And from the San Ku . - A
--a
to the room m POltlers where one can stand castmg no shadow,
That IS Sagetrleb,
that IS tradItion Bwlders had kept the proportion, chd Jacques de Molay
know these porportIons) and was Erlgena ours"
Moon's barge over Illl1k:-blue water
605
qUI selpso procedlt
? Kuthera 8tt. vcX Kuthera scmplterna
UbI amor, IbI oculus Vae qUI cogltatls InutIle
qualn In nobIs slnl1htudlnc dlvlnae reperctur Imago
"Mother Earth 111 thy lap'
saId Randolph ~Y&. 7n)(jev 1tOAO
hberavlt masnatos
CastalIa lIke the moonlIght
and the waves rIse and fall,
EVlta, beer-halls, semIna motuum,
to parched grass, no\v IS ralll
not arrogant from habIt,
but furIous from perceptIon,
Slbylla,
from under the rubble heap
n1' clevastl from the dulled edge beyond paIn,
m'clevastl out of Erebus, the deep-lYIng
from the WInd under the earth, m'elLvastl
from the dulled aIr and the dust, m'elevastl
by the great flIght,
m'elevastl,
ISIS Kuanon from the cusp of the moon,
m'elevastl
606
? the VIper stIrs In the dust,
the blue serpent
glIdes from the rock pool
And they take lIghts now down to the water
the lamps float from the rowers
the sea's claw drawIng them outward
"De fondo" saId Juan Ramon, hke a mermaId, up'\\- ard,
but the hght perpendicular, upward and to Castaha,
water Jets from the rock and In the flat pool as Arethusa's
a hush In papyrI
Grove hath Its altar
under elms, m that temple, m sIlence
a lone nymph by the pool
WeI and Han rushtng together
two nvers together
brIght fish and flotsam
tom bough In the flood
and the waters clear W ith the flowmg
Out of heaVIness where no mmd moves at all "bIrds for the mInd" sald R. 1chardus,
Ilbeasts as to body, for know-how'l GalO' GaIO'
To Zeus W Ith the SIX seraphs before hIm The arclutect from the pamter,
the stone under elm
Takmg form now,
the rlhevl,
the curled stone at the marge
? Faunus, Slrenes,
the stone takIng form In the aIr
ac ferae, cerVI,
the great cats approaching Pardus, leopard! , Bagheera
drawn luther from woodland, woodland e7tt X6ov(
the trees rIse
and there IS a wIde sward between them
ot X66vr,OL myrrh and ohbanum on the altar stone gIVIng perfume,
and where was nothmg now IS furry assembla. ge
and In the boughs now are VOIces
grey WIng, black WIng, black wmg shot WIth crImson and the umbrella pInes
as In PalatIne, as In pIneta XeAL8&>v, XeAL8&lV
For the processIon of Corpus
come now banners
comes flute tone
at X66v~o~
to new forest,
duck smoke, purple, rIsmg
brIght fla. me now on the altar
the crystal funnel of aIr
out of Erebus, the dehvered,
Tyro, Alcmene, free now, ascendIng
e 1cavaherI, ascendIng,
no shades more,
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? lIghts among them, enkIndled, and the dark shade of courage
'H:A? x'"t"pcx
bowed still WIth the wrongs of Aeglsthus
Trees dIe & the dream remaIns
Not love but that love flows from It
ex ammo
& cannot ergo delIght In Itself
but only In the love flowmg from It UBI AMOR IBI OCULUS EST
? & Helen of Tyre
(If It was Apollo1llus)
by Plthagoras
XCI
II
? I II ?
II
ab 10 dolchor qu'al cor fil val
rlJ-
? -?
II
ABLaDOLCHORQU'ALCOR MI VAl
that the body of lIght come forth
from the body of fire
And that your eyes CaDle to the surface
from the deep whereIn they were sunken,
Rema-for 300 years,
and now sunken
That your eyes come forth from theIr caves &bght then
as the holly-leaf qw laborat, orat
Thus Undme came to the rock,
by Clrceo and the stone eyes again lookIng seaward
Thus Apollonlus
by Ocellus
(puot-:6. sh, et hbldlWS expers, of Tyre,
6xo
II
? justlluan, Theodora
from brown leaf and tWIg The GREAT CRYSTAL
doublIng the pIne, and to cloud pensar dl hels m'es rlpaus
MISS Tudor moved them wIth galleons from deep eye, versus arlnada
from the green deep
he saw It, ln the green deep of an eye
Crystal waves weaVIng together toward the gtJ healIng
LIght compenetrans of the SpIrIts The PrIncess Ra-Set has chmbed
to the great knees of stone, She enters protectIon,
the great cloud IS about her, She has entered the protectIon of crystal
conVIen che 51 mova la Inente, amanda
LIght & the flOWIng crystal
never gIn In cut glass had such clarIty
That Drake saw the splendour and wreckage In that clarIty
Gods movIng m crystal
Ichor, amor
Secretary of Nature, J Heydon
Here ApollonIus, Heydon
hIther Ocellus
'to thIs khan"
611
XXVI, 34
? The golden sun boat
by oar, not by saIl Love movmg the stars 1t'OCpa. ~W~LO"
by the altar slopt.
lTamuz' Tamuz" They set lIghts now In the sea
and the sea's claw gathers them outward The peasant WIves lude cocoons now
That the sun's suk hSlen
under theIr aprons for Tamuz
tensIle
be clear CEAeVtXu<; That Drake saw the armada
& sea caves Ra-Set over crystal
m the Queen's eye the reflectIon & sea-wrack-
movIng
ne quaesarls
green deep of the sea-cave
He asked not
nor wavered, seemg, nor had fear ofthe wood-queen, ArteInls
that 15 DIana
nor had lo. lled save by the huntIng rIte,
Thus sang It
Leafdl DIana, leave DIana
612
sanctus
? Heye DIana, help me to neode WItte me thurh crafte
whuder lch mael hdhan to wonsom Jonde
Rome th'llke tyme was noght So that he spread a deer-rude near the altar,
Now Lear mJanus' temple IS laId
? tunmg the thunder
Nor Constance hath lus hood agam, Merhn's fader may no man know Merhn's moder IS made a nun
Lord, thaet seop the dayes hhte,
all that she knew was a spInt brIght,
A movement that moved m cloth of gold mto her chamber
"By the whIte dragon, under a stone Merlm's fader IS known to none II
Lay me by Aurehe, at the east end of Stonehenge where lIe my bndred
Over harm Over hate
overfloodmg, hght over light And yuden he gon rere
(Athelstan before a D 940) the hght :Bowmg, whelmmg the stars
In the barge of Ra-Set On over of crystal
So hath Slbue a boken lsette
Democraczes electtng thetr sewage
? tIll there tS no clear thought about holltless
a dung flow from 1913
and, tn thIs, thetr ktkeryfilllcttOfUd, Mart, Freud
and the amerlCa1' bearzerzes Filth %"nderfilth,
Marttatn, Hute/tlns, or as Betzda remarked U La trahtson'
and damn all
I wdj hke to see Vcrona agaIn
(Iecco 11 te"
said the head walter- en calcalre, quarante quattre gradms, "DodICI Aposto! l" (trattorIa)
and the affable putana wantIng to adjust the spellmg of GUIdo as It IS Itot In the C1Capltolare"
CCCome rassembra al martlre' sdj the pIccolo clthere were french here,
but they fOWld some dead m the street one morning, they dId not come back agam"
(That was that war Battista nlartlrc) m Ortolo, San Zeno, San PIetro
and the htll-cats, "quel naszhong" said the ganun to Ed
ref the bronze doors of San Zeno "buy columns now by the gross"
as for the four porphery
Wlth the stone-loop
NalUU (Torquato) dtd 3 years WIth BattIsta and wasn't shot till after Sal"
Threw lumself I n front o f a frIend (Arplnatl)
but cd/ not save hIm
? Farlnata pudg'd still there In the cloIster,
Can Grande's grIn hke Tommy Cochran's, pleno d'alegre<ra
Rapunzel dId not And as donors Adah Lee, Ida
(for an altar pIece) narrow lace at her collar ill moummg
((A SpIrIt In cloth of gold" so Merhn's moder saId,
or dId not say,
left the qwdtty
but remembered & from fire to crystal
VIa the body of lIght,
the gold wmgs assemble
That Rhea's hons protect her
(to the tough guy Musomus honour) Rose, azure,
the hghts slow movmg round her, Zephyrus, turmng,
the petals lIght on the air
BrIght hawk whom no hood shall cham, They who are skIlled In fire
shall read tan)the dawn
Walvmg no Jot of the arcanum
(haVIng Ius own rmnd to stand by ! um)
As the sea-gull K&. 8[. LoU . &uycX. 'nlP sald to Odysseus KADMOU THUGATER
"get rId ofparapernaha" TLEMOUSUNE
? And that even In the tIme of Domttlan
one young man declmed to be buggar'd
'fls thIS a bath-house)"
a. AAOTE 8'avT' Evpo~ ZEcPVpCl) Et,aUI<E 8L(~ICELV 'Or a Court House)"
Asked Apollomus
to ascend those hIgh places
stnnng and changeable
wrote Heydon
who spoke to the hon chantas msuperabws
"hght fightmg for speed>> and If honour and pleasure will not be ruled
yet the mmd come to that HIgh CIty who WIth Pythagoras at Taornuna
Souls be the water-nymphs o f PorphyrIus
NUK~OC; 3'cx. ~'i:'o:. t. &1)p 't'e xcx. t ~tLep(X. Z1)'IOC; TCup6c; FormalIty Heydon polluted Apollonlus unpolluted
and the whole creatIon concerned WIth "FOUR" 'my blkml IS worth your raft"
And there be who say there 15 no road to fehclty tho' swallows eat celandIne
"before my eyes mto the aether of Nature" The water-bug's mIttens
petal the rock beneath, The natrlx ghdes sapplure mto the rock-pool
NUTT overarchmg "mand'lo a la Plnella"
sdj Gwdo
6I6
? "Ghosts dIp m the crystal, adorned"
That the tone change from elegy
"Et Jehanne" (the Lorraine girl)
A lost kInd ofexperience~ scarcely,
o Queen Cytherea,
che '1 terzo clel movete
? XCII
And from thIs Mount \'\crc hIo\'n sled
and that every plant hath It') ~ccd so \\ III tht \VtasLI cat rue,
and the swallo\v~ IUp celandIne. . . and as cngraveIl on gold, to bt unity but dualIty, brass
and trIne to mercurIal shall a. tetrad be suver
wIth the smoke of llutmeg and frankIncense and froin tms a sea-change'
And honour)
FItzgerald i l I ,vas" When he freed a man
who had not bet-Il at the Po~t Office (OlI'eland 1916) or ('SIgnorI,
10 facevo la selltl11<.