No More Learning

dl\ In gI Celt nunlbers tJttle whereas aJew wIll receive Infollnatlon
he wIll s. ,thcr up lntorn'l3tlon faute de sonlcthlng nlore solId
but not In all cases
~EIPHNE:S had apprCcl1tcd hlS con\ crsatlon
XAPITE~ possIbly In th<. soft aIr WIth the n13st held by tht. . left h l. nd In thiS atr as of I"u1non
enIgma forgettIng the tln,c~ and "'t. 1c;ons
but thIS aIr brought her ashore a Ia tnarlna wIth the great shell borne on the. . scawavcs
nautlhs bl~t1C3~tra
By no means an orderly DJnt(. . \c'ln rl~lng
but as the wInds veer
tlra IlbccLlo now GenJl at Suma , tlf1 lxbccCI0
as the wlnd~veer and the 1aft IS drIven and the VOIces ,TIro, AIcmcne
wIth you IS Europa nee cast~ Paslphae
Eu! us, Apchota as the wInds veer In perlplum 10 son la luna " Cunlzza
as the wInds veer In perlplum and [roIn under the Rupe Tarpela
drunk wIth WIne of the Cast,lll
(( In the name of Its god >> U ')plrltus venl U
443
FIRE U
? advenl / not to a schen'la
Ct IS not for the young" saId Arry, staglrIte
but as grass under Zephyrus
as the green blade under Apehota
TIme IS not, Tune IS the eVil, beloved Beloved the hours {3poOOOfJ. KT1,Aor;
as agaInst the half-hght of the wIndow
wIth the sea beyond making horIzon Ie COntre-jour the 11ne of the cameo
profile cc to carve Achala "
a dream passIng over the face In the half-light Venere, Cytherea U aut Rhodon "
vento hgure, venI
ct beauty IS dIfncult " sd/ Mr Beardsley
and sd/ Mr Kettlewell looking up from a
pseudo-Beardsley of hIS freshman composltion and speaklng to W Lawrence
PIty you dIdn't finIsh the Job
whIle you were at It "
W L haVIng run Into the future non-sovereIgn Edvardus
on abicycle equally freshman
ad 1910 or about that
beauty IS ddncult
In the days of the BerlIn to Bagdad project
and of Tom L's photos of rock temples In ArabIa Petra but he wd/ not talk of
LL G and the frogbassador, he wanted to talk modern art (T L dId)
but of second rate, not the first rate
beauty IS dIfficult
He saId I protested too much he wanted to start a press and prInt the greek claSSICS periplum
and the very very aged Snow created consIderable hIlarIty quotIng the epalve-T-r-T-TTr-a. l P. OL
In reply to l'aer trel1'/. are
444
? beauty IS dlffi. cult
But on the other hand the PresIdent of :Nlagdalen
(rhymIng dawdhn') saId there were
too many words In cc The Hound of Heaven" a moddddun opohem he had read
and there was no doubt that the dons hved well
In tre kawledg
It was 1? I remember rIghtly the burn and freeze that the fresh- men
had failed to follow
or else a mere deSire to titter etc and I t IS (In parenthesIs) doubtless
easIer to teach them to roar like gorillas than to scan epa. tv? Tal P. OL
InferIor gorIllas of course, lackIng the wInd sack
and although Slkl was qUIte observable we have not yet calculated the sum
gorilla +bayonet
and there was a good man named Burr
descendant of Aaron durIng the other war
who was amused by the British
but he didn't last long AND
Corporal Casey tells me that StalIn Ie bonhomme Stahne
has no sense of humour (dear I<. oba') and old Rhys, Ernest, was a lover of beauty
and when he was still engIneer In a coal mine
a man passed hIm at hIgh speed radIant In the mine gallery hiS face shining wIth ecstasy
tt A'hv Joost Tommy Luff "
and as Luff was tWice the fellow's SIze, Rhys was puzzled The Muses are daughters of memory
CliO, Terpsichore
and Granville was a lover of beauty and the three ladles all waited
445
? CC andwIthanametocomeU ECJ'O'OJJ. l. vourL
ara111 vult nemus
Came Madame LucreZla
and on the back of the door In Cesena are, or were, stIll the InItIals
Joh quart d'heure, (nella ~1alatestlana)
Torquato where art thou) to the clIck of hooves on the cobbles by Tevere
and U my fondest knIght he dead" or la Stuarda
U ghosts move about me" cc patched wIth hIstorIes"
but as Mead saId If they were, 'llJhat have they done 10 the Interval,
eh, to arrIve by metempsychosIs at ') and there are also the conjectures of the Fortean Society
Beauty IS difficult the plaIn ground
precedes the colours and thIs grass or whatever here under the tcntflaps
15, IndubItably, ban1boolform representatIve brush strokes wd/ be sImIlar
check bone, by verbal manifestatIon, hereyesasInt( L~Nasclta" whereas the child's face
IS at Capoquadrl1n the fresco square over the doorway centre background
the form beached under Hehos funge la purezza,
and that certaIn nnages be formed In the mInd to remaIn there
fOr11'Zato locho Arachne ml porta fortuna
to rematn there, resurgent EII(OJ\ E~ and stIll1n Trastevere
? for the deIficatIOll of enlpelors and the medallIons
to forge Achala
and as for plaYing checquels wIth blac. . . k Jim
on a barrel top whele now 1~ the RItz-Carlton
and the vOice of Monsieur Fouquet 01 tl,e Napoleon 3rd barblche of Mr Quacl{enbos, or Quackenbush
as I supposed It,
and Mrs ChIttenden's lofty aIr
and the remaIns of the old South tldewashed to Manhattan and brown-stone or (later) the outer front stair
leadIng to Mouquln's
or old Train (FrancIs) on the pavenlent In hiS plain wooden
or a fellow throwing a knife In the market past baskets and bushels of peaches
at $I the bushel
and the cool of the 42nd St tunnel (perlplum)
white-wash and horse cars, the LexIngton Avenue (. 'lble refinement, prIde of tradition, alabaster
Towers of PIsa (alabaster, not Ivory)
coloured photographs of Europa
carved wood from Venice venetIan glass and the samovar and the fire bucket, 1806 Barre Mass'chusetts
and the Charter Oak In Connecticut
or to begin with Cologne Cathedral
the Torwaldsen hon and Paolo Uccello
and thence to Al Hambra, the lion court and el mirador de la rellla LlndaraJa
orlent reaclling to TangIer, the clrffs the Villa of PeldlcarlS Ra1s VII, perlplum
Mr Joyce also preoccupIed with Gibraltar
and the PIllars of Hercules 447
chau:
? not wIth my patIo and the wistaria and the tennIS courts or the bugs In Mrs Jevons' hotel
or the quahty of the beer served to saIlors veder Naptoll111 or PavIa the romanesque
being preferable
and by analogy the form of San Zeno the
columns signed by theIr n1aker
the frescoes In S PIetro and the madonna In Ortolo
eC( fadlclaritaraertremare"
as In the manuscrIpt of the Capltolare Trattoria degh Apostol! (dodlel)
u Ecco11teU saidtheheadwalter
In 19I~explainIng Its mysteries to the piccolo with a teapot from another hotel
but coffee came to ASSISl much later
that IS, so one cd/ drInk It
when It was lost In Orleans and France seml-ruln'd
thus the coffee-house facts of VIenna
whereas Mr Carver merIts nlentlon for the
cultivation of peanuts,
arachldl, and the sOJa has yet to save Europe
and the wops do not use maple syrup the useful operatIons of con1merce
stone after stone of beauty cast down and authentICitIes dIsputed by parasites
(made In Ragusa) and what art do you handle? U The best" And the moderns~ce Oh, nothIng modern
we couldn't sell anything modern"
But Herr Bacher's father made madonnas stIll In the traditIon carved wood as you might have found m any cathedral
and another Bacher stIll cut IntaglIOS
such as Salustlo's m the time of Ixotta,
where the masks come from, In the TIrol, In the WInter season
searching every house to drive out the demons 448
? Serenely In the crystal Jet
as the brIght ball that the fountain tosses
(VerlaIne) as dIamond clearness
How soft the wInd under T alshan
where the sea IS remembered out of hell, the pIt
out of the dust and glare eVIl Zephyrus / Apehota
ThIs lIquId IS certaInly a property of the mInd
nee accIdens est but an element
In the mInd's make-up
est agens and functIons dust to a fountaIn pan otherwIse Hast 'ou seen the rose In the steel dust
(or swansdown ever'>>)
so hght IS the urgIng, so ordered the d1rk petals of Iron
we who have passed over Lethe
449
? ? ? ? ? LXXV
UT of Phlegethon! Oout of Phlegethon,
Gerhart
. . . art thou come forth out of Phlegethon?
with Buxtehude and Klages in your satchel, with the Standcbuch of Sachs in luggage
-not of one bird but of many
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45?
? LXXVI
rD the C)un hIgh over hOl1zon hIdden In cloud bank Aht saffron the cloud ridge
dove st'1 nlenlora
tt WIll" saId the SIgnora AgrestI) (( break. hIs politIcal but not economIC system "
But on the hIgh cltff Alcmene,
Dryas, Hamadryas ac Hehades flo~1'eredbranch and sleeve movIng
Dlrce ct Ixotta e che fu chlamata PrImavera
m the tImeless aIr
that they suddenly stand In my room here between me ~nd the olIve tree
or nel cllvo ed al trledro'>
and answered the sun In hiS great perlplunl leads In hIs fleet here
sotto Ie nostre scogl1 under our craggy chffs
alevel thelr mast-tops
Slglsmundo by the AurelIa to Genova
by la vecchla satto S Pantaleone Cunlzza qua al trledro,
e la scalza, and she who saId I stIll have the mould, and the rain fell all the nIght long at Ussel
-cefte 11ZattVatseh ve1'tggg blew over Tolosa
and In Mt Segur there is W111d space and raIn space
no more an altaI to lvIlthras
from 11 trledro to the Castellaro 452
? the olIves grey over grey holdIng walls and theIr leaves turn under SClrocco
la scalza 10 son' la luna
and they have broken my house
the huntress m broken plaster keeps watch no longer
tempora, tempora and as to mores
by BabylonIan wall (memorat Cheever) out of hIs bas relIef, for that line
we recall hIm
and who's dead, and who Isn't
and wIll the world ever take up Its course agaIn")
very confidentIally I ask you WIl11t) wIth Dleudonne dead and burled
not even a wall, or Mouquln, or VOISIn or the cake shops In the Nevsky
The GreIf, yes, I suppose, and Schoners and perhaps the Taverna and Robert's
but La Rupe no longer la Rupe, finlto Pre Catalan, Armenonville, Builier extInct as WIlly and there are I suppose
no reprInts
Teofile's brlcabrac Cocteau's brlcabrac seadrift snOWln' 'em under
every man to his Junk-shop
houses shd/have been bUllt In the '80'S (or'60'S) for a' that
but EIleen's trIck sunlIght softens London's November progress, b h yrjprogress
453
? fa plgrlzla to know the ground and the dew
but to keep 'em thr<. . e weeks Chung we doubt It
and In government not to he dO\Vl1 on It
perfect
better gift can no man make to a nation than the sense of Kung fu Tseu
the word IS made
who was c'liled Chung Nl
nor m hlstorlograp11y nor In maktng anthologIes
(b h yr/progress) each one In the name of hIs god
So that In the synagogue In GIbraltar
the sense of humour seemed to prevaIl during the prelImInary parts of the whatever
but they respected at least the scrolls of the law from It, by It, redemptIon
@ $8 50, @ $8 67 buy the :field WIth good money no unrighteousness In meteyard or In measure (of prices)
and there IS no need for the Xtns to pretend that they wrote LeVitiCuS
chapter XIX In particular
With Justice Zion
not by cheatIng the eye-teeth out of Don Fulano
or of CalO e TIZIO, Why not rebuIld I t )
CrunmaIs have no Intellectual Interests~
IC Hey, Snag, wot are the books ov th' bIb! ' "
454
? CC name 'em, etc
(( Latin"> I studled latIn"
saId the nIgger murderer to hIs cage-mate (cdn't be sure whIch of the two was speakmg)
tC c'mon, sm'lll fry," sd/the smaller blaclt lad to the larger
C:C Just playln' " ante mortem no scortum (that'~progress, me yr' , , se/callit progress/)
In the tImeless aIr over the sea-chffs
cc the prIde of all our D T C was plstol-packln' Burnes" But to set here the roads of France,
of Cahors, of Chalus,
the Inn low by the river's edge, the poplars, to set here the roads of France
Aubeterre, the quarrIed stone beyond POltlers-
-as seen agaInst Sergeant Beaucher's elegant profile-
and the tower on an almost triangular base
as seen from Santa Marta's In Tarascon
CC In heaven have I to make) "
but all the valr and faIr women
and there IS also the more northern (not nOl dIe) traditIon from Memhng to Elskamp, extendIng
to the ship models In DanZIg If they have not destroyed them
wIth Galla's rest, and
15 measured by the to whom It happens
and to what, and 1? to a work of art
then to all who have seen and who villI not
WashIngton, Adams, Tyler, Polk
(wIth Crawford to brIng In a few ColonIal
famtlles) the unruly 455
? Tout dlt que pas ne dure la ? 01 tune
In fact a small r~lln storm
as It were '1 mouse, out of cloud's mountaIn
r~calhngthe arrIval of Joyce et fils
at the haunt of Catullus
"lth Jln1's veneratIon of thunder and the Gard'lscc In m~gnlficence
Bt. t MIss Norton's memory for the convelsatlon (or U go on ") of IdIots
W1'\ such as even the eminent IrIsh wrIter
has, 1? equalled at n10ments ("> slnthetlcly) certaInly never surpassed
Tout dit que pas ne dure la fortune
and the Canal Grande has l1. sted at least untIl our tIme even 1? FlorIan's has been reful blshed
and shops In the Piazza kept up by artIficIal rCc;plratlon
and for La FIgha dl lorlo they got out a specl:l1 edttlon
(entitled the Oedipus of the Laguncs) of carIcatures of D'AnnunZlO
I'ara suI rostra 020 years of the drealn
and the clouds near to Plsa
are as good as any In Italy
saId the young Mozart 1? you Will take a prIse or followmg Ponce (U Ponthe ")
to the fountaIn In Florida de Leon alIa fuente florIda
or Anchlses that laId hold of her ? laoltS of air drawing her to hIm
Cythera potens, I{:u()fJPa. oel,v&' 456
? no cloud, but the crystal body
the tangent formed In the hand's cup
as hve wInd In the beech grove
as strong aIr amId cypress
K&p1J, ~eAu! BeLva. /et 1lbldlnlS expers the sphere movIng crystal, flUId,
none thereIn carryIng rancour
Death, InsanIty/SUICIde degeneratIon
that IS, Just gettIng stupider as they get older '1t'OAAd. 1rOlJ? LV,
nothIng matters but the qualIty of the affectlon-
In the end-that has carved the trace In the n11nd dove sta memorIa
and If theft be the maIn prInCIple In government (every bank of discount J Adams remarked)
there WIll be larceny on a mInor pattern a few camlons, a stray pac! {et of sugar and the effect of the mOVIes
the guard dId not thInk that the Fuhrer had started It Sergeant XL thought that excess populatIon
demanded slaughter at Intervals
(as to the by whom ) Known as t The rIpper'
Lay In soft grass by the clIff's edge WIth the sea 30 Inetres below thIS
and at hand's span, at cubIt's reach mOVIng, the crystallIne, as Inverse of water,
clear over rock-bed ac ferae famlhares
the gemmed field a destra With fawn, WIth panther, 457
? corn tlowcr, thi~tlc&lnd r,wol"d-flowcr
to a half n1ctrc sra~s gro\\,th, lay un the cliff"s edge
. . . nor is this ret alal~a/ nor are here souls, nee pcrson. . 1C
neither here in hypostasis, this I~nd is of Dione and under her planet
to Helia the long meadow with poplars t o Ktir. -ptll;
the mountain and shut garden of pear trees in flower here rested.
n both eyes, (the loss of) and to find someone wllo talked his own dialect. \Ve
talked of every boy and girl in the valley but when he came back from leave
he was sad because he had been able to feel all the ribs of his cow. . . . "
this wind out of Cal? rara is soft as 1. 1,,, terzo cielo
said the Prcfctto
as the cat walked the porch rail at Gardone
the lake flowing away from that side was still as is never in Sirmio
with Fujiyama above it: U La donna. ? ? " said the Prefect, in the silence
and the spring of their squeak-doll is broken and Bracken is out and tIle B. B. C. can lie
but at least a different bilge will come out of it at least for a little, as is its nature
can continue, that is, to lie.
As a lone al1t from a broken ant-hill from the wreckage of Europe, ego scriptor.
458
? The rain has fallen, the wInd comIng down
out of tj,e n10",lnt'lln
Lucca, Forti dc. . l11arml, Berchthold after the other one
parts reassembled
and wltlun the crystal, went up sWIft as ThetIs
In colour rose-blue before sunset and carmIne and amber,
SpIrItl questl') personae'
tangIbIlIty by no means atasal
but the crystal can be weighed In the hand formal and p1ss1ng withIn the s1:J1Lere Thetls,
Maya, 'AcJ>poSt. T1J,
no overstrokc
no dolphIn faster In movIng
nor the flyIng azure of the wl'1g'd fish under ZO:lgh when l'e comes out Into the aIr, liVIng arrow
and the clouds o,er the PIsan mcado'\\-s
are IndubItably as :fine as any to be seen
from the penInsula
Ot {3J. pf3a. POL have not destroyed them
as they have Slglsmundo's Temple
Dlvae Ixottae (and as to her effigy that was In Plsa') Ladder at sVvlng Jump as for a descent from the cross
owhIte-chested martin, God damn It,
as no one else wtll carry a message,
say to La Cara amo
Her bed-posts are of sapphIre for tlus stone giveth sleep
and In spIte of hOI barbaro!
pervenche and a sort of dwarf mornIng-glory that knots In the grass, and a sort of buttercup
459
? et sequelae
Le ParadIs n'est pas artlficleI
States of mInd are Inexplicable to us oa"'plJ(J)v 8aKptlWv 8cucpvwv
L P gh onestl
J'al eu plt1e des autres
probablement pas assez, l. nd at moments that sUited nlY own Con- venIence
Le paradIs n'(. st pas artrficlel, l'enfer non plus
C~me Eurus as comforter
and at sunset la pastorella del SUInt
drIVIng the pIgS home, bcnecomata dea
under the two-winged cloud
as of less and 1110re than a day by the soap-sinooth stone posts where San VI0
meets wIth 11 Canal Grande
between Salvlatl and the house that was of Don Carlos shd/I chuck the lot Into the tIde-water)
Ie bozze U A Lume Spento "/
and by the column of Todero
shd/I shift to the other SIde
or walt 2. 4 hours,
free then, thereIn the dIfference
In the great ghetto, left st1ndlng
wIth the new brIdge of the Era where was the old eyesore
Vendramln, ContrarlOI, Fonda, Fondecho and TullIo Romano carved the Sllenes
as the old custodc says so that SInce then no one has been able to carve them
? 01 the Jewel box, Santa Marla Del MIlacoIl, 460
? Del GrecI, San GIorgio, the place of skulls In the Carpacclo
and In the font to the rIght as you enter
are all the gold domes of San Marco
Arachne, che mi porta fortuna, go SpIn on that tent rope
Unkle George In Brassltalo's abbaZla VOl che passate per questa VIa
Does D'Annunzio lIve here~ saId the amerIcan lady,!
( H
U I do not know" saId the aged Venezlana, U thIS lamp IS for the vlrgm "
U Non combaattere " saId GIO" anna, meanIng don't work so hard,
Arachne che mi porta fortuna,
Athene, who wrongs thee)
'Tlr; aO~KE:i
That butterfly has gone out thru my smoke hole
Unkle George obserVIng Ct/Volpe's neck at the Ltdo
and dedUCing his energy Unkle G stood lIke a statue U Rutherford Hayes on a monument"
as the plincess approached mm
tt You from New England'> " barked the loth District,
and It came over me as he talked tins IS Dafne's Sandro-
How? after 30 years, Trovaso, GregorIO, VIO
U Dawnt let 'em git you U burred the bearded Dottore when was the Scottch Ktrrrk In Venice
461
? to warn one etgalnst BabylonIan Intrlgue and there ha\ e been SInce then
very hIgh episcopal vagarIes
well, my wIndow
looked out on the Squcro whet e Ognl SantI
meets San Trovaso
thIngs have end! and begInnings
and the glIded caSC:OOl neIther then nor up to the present the hIdden nest, Tamt's dream, the glC'1t OVId
bound In thlck boards, the bas relIef of I"(otta and the care In contriving
Ohm de Malatestls
the long hall over the arches at Fano
ohm de Mal,testls
cc 64 countrIes and down a bOlhn) volcano U
says the sargent
ex rUIn-runner (the rum beIng Vlno 10SS0)
u runnln whIsky U sez he, mountain oysters) Itsclate con lagrlme
pohtiS lachrynl1s 6. AKl)YON
brIcks thought Into beIng ex nthil suave In the cavIty of the roclt la concha
nOII\I \. 00PON', 'A(R) t\N -\. T A
that butterfly has gone out thru my smoke hole 'A0A~ 4T A, saeva AgaInst buff the rose for the
background to Leonello, Petrus PIsanI PlIlXlt that a cameo should remaIn
in Are~zoan altar fragment (Cortona, Angehco) po'erl dl'aoh
po'erl dl'aoll sent to the slaughter 462.
? Knecht gegen Knecht
to the sound of the bumm drum, to eat remnants
for a usurer's holIday to change the price of a curlency
META0El\IE~ON ~H~ON'AMYMONA
woe to them that conquer wIth armIes and whose only rIght IS theIr power
? LXXVII
D tIns day Abner hfted a shovel
A instead of watchlIl' It to see if It would
take actIon
Von Tlrpltz said to hIS daughter as we have elsewhere recorded / he saId beware of theIr charm
But on the other h3nd Maukch thought he would do me a favour by gettIng me onto the commISSIon to Inspect the mass graves :It Katln,
Ie beau monde gouverne
1? not touJours at any rate It IS a level of
son1e sort whtreto thIngs tend to return Chung ~
InthemIddle ~
whether upright or horIzontal
cc and having got 'enl (advantages, prIvIlege)
there IS nothIng, ItalIcs l1othJ. IZg, they WIll not do to retaln 'em "
yrs truly Kungfutslu
Entered the Bros Watson's store In ClInton N Y
preceded by a crash, 1 e by a
huge grIpsack or satchel
whIch fell and skIdded along the 2. 0 foot aIsle-way and ceased WIth a rumpus of glassware
(unbreakable as It proved)
and WIth the enquIry WOT IZZA COMIN''>
Ct I'll tell you wot JZ. la comln' Sochy-llsm IS a--comln'
464
? (a d I904, somewhat preVIOUS but effectIve
know what precedes
vIde also Eplctetus and Syrus
As Arcturus passes over my smoke-hole the excess electrIc IllumInatIon
IS now focussed
on the bloke who stole a safe he cdn't open (Interlude entItled perlplum by can11on)
and AWOl'S helznla plays hob In the tent flaps k-Iakk thuuuuuu
m1h. lng raIn uuuh
hooo
der 1m B11uba
for unmedlate scope
thIngs have ends ~(or scopes) and blglnnlngs To
JJ. . wIll assIst yr/ con1prehensIon of process
Faasa'
now In the heart IndestruCtlhIe
4 times was the CIty ren1ade,
4 gates, the 4 towers (II SClrocco e geloso)
men rose out of xfJ6vot>;
Ag1da, Ganna, Silla,
and Mt T:l1shan IS faInt as the wraIth of my first frIend
ij U HowISItfar,IfyouthInkofIt'>U
who comes talklOg ceramICS,
mIst glaze <. over mountam
, ,
Came Boreas and hIS kyltn
to brreak the corporal)s heal t
. it.
and what follows
M"
? Bright dawn ~ on the sht house nextdaycw:s . . .
wIth the shadow of the gibbets attendant
The Plsan CIJuds are undoubtedl)' varIOUS
and splendld as any I have seen SInce
at Scudder's r111s on the SchuylkIll
by which stre~lmI seem to recall a feller
settln' In a rudln1cntary shack dOln' nawthln' not fi5h111', Just watchln' the water,
a nlan of about forty-five
nothIng counts save the quahty of the affectIon
mouth, IS the sun that IS god's mouth "0 or 10 another connectIOn (penplum)
the studiO on the Regent's canal 1"heodora as}rep on the sofa, the young Dann o's U tailor's bIll n
or Gl1'ihkln'S photo refound years after
Wltlt the feeling that Mr Ehot may have mIssed son1ethtng, after all, In compOSIng hiS vignette
perlplum
(the dance IS a medium)
U To hIS natIve mountaIn"
,1,''Q'r ' 't'v-Xap'ov at. ,. . ,aUTo,t:>0V Vf. KpOV
a lIttle name for a little
consi. . rved In the Imperial ballet, never danced In a tl1eatre Kept as JustInIan left It
Padre Jose had understood something or other
before the deluxe car carrIed him over the preCIpIce
? SU11t11C fugol ofhbarr learned what the Mass meant,
how one shd/ perform It
the dancmg at Corpus the toys In the
serVIce at Auxerre top, whip, and the rest of them
[1 heard It In the s h a SUitable place
to hear that the war was over]
the scollop of the sky shut down on Its peall
KaU,:rrAoKap. a I d a
WIth drawn sword as at Neml
day comes after day
and the hars on the qual at SIracusa
stIll VIe WIth Odysseus
seven words to a bomb
dum capltohum scandet the rest IS explodable
Very potent, C1n they agaIn put one together as the two halves of a seal, or a tally stIck~
Shun's wI1l1nd King Wan's wIll
were as the two halves of a seal Y2s
In the Middle KIngdom
TheIr aln1S as one
dlreCtlo voluntatls, as lord over tIle heart
~
w .
the two sages unIted
? and Lord Byron lamented that he (Kung) had not left It In metrIc
tc halves of "1 seal," VoltaIre choosIng almost as I had
to finIsh hIs tC LouIs Quatorze "
and as to the distrIbutIve functIon
1766 ante Chrlstum
It IS recorded, and the state Calt lend money as proved at SalamIs
and for notes on monopoly
Thales, and credIt, SIena,
both for the trust and the mIstrust,
cc the earth belongs to the livIng" Interest on all It creates out of nothing
the buggerIng bank has, pure InIquIty
and to change the value of money, of the unIt of
money
METATHE~fENON
we are not yet out of that chapter
Le Par,dlS n'est pas artl:ficlel I{:68'Y)po. , Ku8'1]pa. ,
MovIng V1rO x8ov? ,t) enters the hall of the records the forlns of men rose out of 'YEa.
Le Paradis n'est pas artlficlel
nor does the martin against the tempest fly as In the calm atr
Ct llke an arrow, and under bad government like an arrow "
te MISSing the bull's eye seeks the cause tn himself " tc only the total Slncenty, the precIse definitIon " and no sow's. ear from Silk purse
even In that case
the clouds over Plsa, over the two teats of Tellus, yla
? CC He won't" saId Plrandello tt fall for Freud, he (Cocteau) IS too good a poet "
Well, Camparl IS gone SInce that day
with Dleudonne and wIth VOlsIn
and GaudIer's eye on the telluric mass of MISS Lowell
tt the mind of Plato or that of Bacon" saId Upward seekIng parallel for hIS own
U Haff you gno bohdlgal basshunts~
Demokrltoos, Heragleitos " exclaImed Doktor Slonlmsky I9IZ
So MISCIO sat In the dark lacking the gasometer penny but then saId tC Do you speak German~ "
to AsqUIth, In 1914
U How Ainley face work all the tIme
back of that mask "
But Mrs Tinkey never belIeved he wanted her cat for mouse-chasIng
and not for oriental CUISIne
CC Jap'nese dance all time overcoat U he remarked with perfect preCISion
tt Just hke Jack Dempsey's mitts" sang Mr WIlson
so that you cd/ crack a flea on elder wan
ov her breasts
sd/ the old Dublin pIlot
or the preCIse definItIon
bel seno (In runas escarsas, VIde sopra) 469
? 2. nlountalns wIth the Arno, I suppose, flowIng between them so kIssed the ealth after sleepIng on concrete
bel seno 6. TJP. 1JT7JP copulatrlx thy furrow
In lunbo no VIctorIes, there, arc no vlctorles- that IS lImbo, between decks of the sla"er
10 }cars, 5ye1rs
tc If he wdl 011/)' get rId of CIano" gro'1ned the admIral tC people who are used to take orders" he saId
when the fleet surrendered
cc IwoulddoIt" (finIshoffCIano) U WIthapInchof
InsectIcIde "
saId Chllantl's 12. year old daughter
Sold the school-house at Gals,
cut down the woods whose leaves served for beddIng cattle
so there was a l'lch. of manure
for losIng the law of Chung N1,
hence the vahse set by the alpIno's statue In Brunlk
and the long lazy float of the banners and slInl1ar things occurred In DalmatIa
lackIng that treasure of honesty wmch IS the treasure of states
and the dog-damn wop IS not, save by exceptIon, honest In admInIstratIon any more than the brIton IS truthful
Jactancy, vanIty, peculation to the rUin of 20 years' labour
bells over Petano are softer than other bells rememberIng Alice and Edmee
tIll the dog Arlechtno makes hiS round
blanl. . et holdIng the hdls' form In cloudy aurora
? faces Apollo
E la MIranda was the only one who changed personalIty cllanglng her roles
WhIch fact, It wd/ seem, escaped most, If not all, of the crItICs
U If you had a f n' brain you'd be dangerous" remarks Romano Ranlona
to a by hIm desIgnated C s In the scabIes ward
the army vocabulary contaIns almost 48 words
one verb and partIciple one substantIve VA'f}
one adjectIve and one phrase sexless that IS
used as a sort of pronoun
from a watchnlan's club to a vamp or faIr lady
And Margherlta's VOIce was clear as the notes of a claVIchord tendIng her rabbIt hutch,
o Margaret of the seven grIefs who hast entered the lotus
tt Trade, trade, trade " sang LanIer
and they say the gold her grandlnother carried under her skirts for Jeff DaVIS
drowned her when she slipped from the landIng boat, doom of Atreus
(0 Mercury god of thieves, your caduceus 15 now used by the american army
as witness thiS packIng case)
Born WIth Buddha's eye south of Mason and DIxon as agaInst
lIs n'existent pas, leur ambience leul confert une eXistence and In the case of
471
? Emanuel S'\vedcnborg U do not 1. rguc "
In the 3cd ~pherc do not argue
above \\ hlCh, the lotus, ~hlte nenuphar }(u1non, the mythologu. . s
\ve who have passed ov<. . r Lethe
there are In fact several coarse expreSSIons used In the army and MonsIeur Barzun had, IndubItably, an ldea, about anno
domlni 1910 but I do not know what he has done wIth It for I wd/ steal no man's raison
and old Andre
preached vers hbre wIth Isalalc fury, and sent nle to old Rousselot
who fished for sound In the SeIne and led to detectors
U an anImal" he said U which seeks to conceal the sound of Its foot-steps"
L'Abbl. Rousselot who wr1pped up De Sousa's poems (fin oreillc)
3'ld besought me to do lIkewIse returning them
lest hIs housekeeper know that he h'ld them
tt Un cure degUIse " sd/ Cocteau's of Marltaln
t t Me paralt un cure degulse >> A la porte
ct SalS pas, MonsIeur, 11 me par1. 1t un cure degulsc
U Thought U saId M Cocteau n that I was among men of letters and then perceIved a group of mechanIcs and garage assistants"
C( As long as Daudet IS alIve they wIll never have hIm
In the Academle Goncourt :tJ
sd/ La Comtesse de Rohan, and Mr Martin
we belIeve dId a s11nl1ar wrong to hIs party
? C( 30,000, they thought they were clever, why, Hell / they cd/ have had It for 6000 dollars, and after Landon they pIcked Wendell Wlilkle
ROI Je ne SUIS, prInce Je ne dalgne CItIzen of Florence, cd/ not receIve noble tItles
but carry the arms to thIS day
who resIsted at Arbla when the fools wd/ have burnt down Florence (( In gran dlSPltto u t ( men used to obeYIng orders"
(( there was also the KIng who sIgned those decrees" se casco, non casco In gInocchIon'
-DIggers comm' over the obstacle fence
as In the Insets at the SchIfanoJa
(del Cossa) to scale, 10,000 glbbet-Iform posts supporting barbed WIre
(C St LOUIS TIll" as Green called hIm LatIn ,
tt I studIed latIn" saId perhaps hIS smaller conlpanl0n
U Hey Snag, what's In the bIbl' )
what are the books of the bIbl' ?
Name 'em' don't bullshlt me' "
U Hobo WIllIams, the queen of thenl all U
(( Hey / Crawford, come over here / "
Roma profugens Sabloorum In terras t t Shgo In heaven" murmured uncle WIlliam
when the mist finally settled down on Tlgulho
But Mr Joyce requested sample menus from the leadIng hotels and KItson had tInkered WIth lIghts on the Yetta
MIst covers the breasts of Tellus-Helena and drIfts up the Arno came night and WIth nIght the tempest
U HowISItfar,IfyouthInkofIt')" 473
? If B~Jl sIng ot Shlh :0tan1(h, 'nd wrote
Ftrdtlsb' on hl~ door
Thus S31th Kablr u Polltlc1. 11y " said Rablndranath
U they arc InactIve They thInk, but then there IS
clImate, they thInk but It IS warm or there 1re flIes or some Insects"
<< And Wlt! l the return of the gold st'1ndard " wrote SIr Montagu t< every peasant had to pay tWIce as n1uch ~ral'1
to cover hIS taxes and Intelest n
It 15 true that the Interest 1S now legally lower
but the banks lend to the bunya
,vho C1n thus lend more to hIS vIctims
and the snot press and periodIcal tosh do~\ not notice this thus salth Kablr, by hypostasIs
1? they can take Hancockts wharf they can take your cow or my barn
and the Kohlnoor and the rajah's emerald etc
:lod Tom wore a tin dISC, a circular can-hd wIth hIS name on It, solely
for WanJlna has lost hIS mouth,
For nowt so much as a Just peace ThAt wd/ obstruct future wars
as wltness the bombardment at Frascatl after the armistice had been sIgned
who lIve by debt and war profiteerlng Das Bankgeschaft
t ( of the Wabash cannon ball"
? In flat Ferrarese country seemed the same as here under TalShan
men move to scale as In Del Cossa's Insets
at SchlfanoJa under the Ram and Bull
In the house-boats bargainIng half a day for ten bob's worth of turquoise
mInd come to plenum when nothmg more WIll go Into It
the wmd mad as Cassandra
who was as sane as the lot of 'em
Sorella, Inla sorella,
che ballava sobr' un zecchln'
~ brlngest to focus ~
ch'eng
Zagreus Zagreus
ch'eng
475
? CJ\N 10 77
~I - nilddle ~2-precede
E"plIcatlon
3))7-not ?
one's own
$
~ SpirIt
and
iJ. . 3 - follow
YIO
~~ It far ~
]1.
5- dawn
1~& 6 - mouth
flattery
4-how (IS It)
'0
To sacrIfice to a spIrIt not one's own IS flattery (S) cophancy)
~i
8 - halves of a
~ 9 - dtrectlon
of one's will
sacrIfice
IS
hI gosh
? LXXVIII
y THE square elm of Ida B 40 geese are assembled
(httle sIster who could dance on a sax-pence) to arrange a pax mundl
Sobr' un zecchzn"
Cassandra, your eyes are IIlt. e tIgers, WIth no word wrItten In them
You also have I carrIed to nowhere to an III house and there IS
no end to the Journey
The chess board too lUCId the squares are too even theatre of war
tt theatre" 15 good There are those who dId not want It to come to an end
and those negroes by the clothes-hne are extraordInarIly lIke the figures del Cossa
TheIr green does not swear at the landscape 2. months' hfe In 4 colours
ter flebiliter Ityn
to close the temple of Janus bifronte
the two-faced bastard
U and the economIC war has begun"
Napoleon wath a goodth man, It took uth
2. 0 yearth to crwuth him
It W Ill not take uth ~o years to crwuth ~1ussollnl"
as was remarked In via Balbo by the ImperIal ChemIcals lts brother
Firms faIled as far off as Avlgnon my red leather note-book
? pa"< Medlcea by hIs own talk In Naples, Lorenzo
'" ho left lyrIcs Inoltre
that men SIng to thIS day Cit ana terra abbandonata "
followed hIm ~1etastaslO, U aHa" non U della" In 11 Progran1n1a dl Verona
the old hand as stylIst stIli holding Its cunnIng
and the water flowIng away from that sIde of the lake IS sIlent as never at SlrmlO
under the arches Foresterla, Salo, Gardone
to dream the Republic San Sepolchro the four bishops In metal
lapped by the flan1e, amId rUin, la fede- reIlquarles seen on the altar
U Someone to take the blame. . If we slIp up on It " Goedel's sleek head In the n11dst of It,
the man out of N a:xos past Fara Sabina
It( 1? you Will stay for the nIght"
U ItIStruethereISonlyoneroon1forthelotofus" << money IS nothing"
cc no, there IS nothIng to pay for that bread"
U nor for the n11nestra" cc NothIng left here but wonlen"
tc Have lugged It thIS far, WIll keep It " (11 zaIno)
No, they WIll do nothIng to you U Who saJ's he IS an AmerIcan "
a stIll form on the brand-t, Bologna
U Gruss Gott," U Der Herr' " UTatile 1St gekommen' "
Slow hft of long banners
Roma profugens Sabinorum In terras
and belt the cltye quahr of nobl1 fame
the lateyn peopI! taken has their name
brInging hIS gods Into Latium
? savIng the brICab. 1ac tt Ere he hIs goddlS brocht In Latlo ))
cc each one In the name "
1Il whom are the VOIces, keepIng hand on the reIns GaudIer's word not blacked out
nor old Hulme's, nor Wyndham's,
Mana aboda
The touch of sadIsm In the back of hIS neck tIntIng JustIce, U Steele that IS one awful name ),
sd/ the cheerful reflectIve nIgger Blood and Slaughter to help h:un
dIalog repartee at the draIn hole
StraIght as the bar of a duckmg stool tC got hIS prIde )) get to the states you can buy It
Don't try that here the bearded owl makIng catcalls
Pallas ~l/('YJ sustaIn me
U definItIon can not be shut down under a box lId"
but I f the gelatIne be effaced whereon IS the record) U whereIn IS no responsIble person
haVIng a front name, a hInd name and an address" ct not a rIght but a duty"
U Presente' U
those words sttll stand uncanceIled,
and merrda for the tnonopo! tsts the bastardly lot of 'em
Put down the slave trade, made the desert to yield and menaced the loan sWine
Sltalkas) double SItalkas
tc not the priest but the VictIm " saId Allen Upward
knew somethIng was phoney, when he (PellegrinI) sd/ the money IS there
Knowledge lost wIth JustInian, and with Titus and Antonlnl. lS (Ct law rules the sea" meanIng lex Rhodl)
479
? that the state have vantage from prIvate misfortune No' Or the story of property
to RostovsefI (18 It Rostovseff';)) nothIng worse than fixed charge
several years' average Menclus III, I T'ang Wan Kung
Chapter 3 and verse 7
Be welcome, 0 crIcket my grIllo, but you must not
sIng after taps
Guard's cap quattrocento
a-han dIt que'ke f01s au vI'age
qu'une casque ne sert pour rlen 'hlen de tout
eela ne sert que pour donner courage a ceux qUI n'en ont pas de tout
",0 Salzburg reopens
QUI suona W olfgang grlllo
po VIola da gamba
one might do worse than open a pub on Lake Garda
so one thInks of
Tallhade and tc Willy" (Gauthier-VIllars)
and of Mockel and La Wallonle en casque de crystal rose les baladInes
With the cakeshops In the Nevsky and Slldar, Armenonville or the Kashmirl house-boats
en casque de crystal rose les baladInes messed up MonSIeur Mozart's house
but left the door of the new concert hall
So he saId, lookIng at the sIgned columns In San Zeno tc how the hell can we get any archItecture
when we order our columns by the gross) " red marble With a stone loop cast round It, four shafts,
and Farmata, kneelmg In the cortlle,
budt lIke Ubaldo, that's race,
480
? Can Grande's grIn lIke Tommy Cochran's
t t E fa dl clarIta l'aer tremare "
thus wrIt, and conserved (or was) In Verona So we sat there by the arena,
outsIde, ThlY and II decaduto the lace cuff fallen over his knuckles
considerIng Rochefoucauld
but the program (Cafe Dante) a lIterary program 1 9 2 0 or
thereabouts was neIther publIshed nor followed GrIfnth saId, years before that, (( Can't move 'em wIth
a cold thIng lIke economICS I am pledged not to come here (London) to ParlIament"
Aram vult nemus as under the raIn altars
askIng how to dIscover delUSIons (confusIons)
tC Chose Kao-yao and the crooks dIsappeared" tc Chose I YIn and the crooks toddled off "
2 hours of lIVIng, knew when they left
that there wd/ be one hell of a fight In the senate Lodge, KnoA agaInst world entanglement
Two WIth hIm In the whole house agaInst the constrIctIon of Bacchus
moved to repeal that god-damned amendment Number XVIII
Mr TInkham Geneva the usurers' dunghill
Frogs, brits, With a few dutch pImps as top dressIng to preface extortIons
and the usual filthIness
for detaIl see Odon's neat lIttle volume
, that IS, for a few of the more obVIOUS detaIls, the root stench beIng usura and METATHEMENON
and ChurchIll's return to MIdas broadcast by hIs hary
te No longer necessary," taxes are no longer necessary
In the old way 1? It (money) be based on work done 481
? InSide a system and nleasured and gauged to human reqUlrenlents
Inside the natIon or system
and cancelled In proportIon
to what IS used and worn out a la W orgi Sdj one wd/ have to think about that
but was hang'd dead by the heels before his thought In proposlto came Into actlon effiCiently
tt For a pIg," Jepson saId, U for a woman" For the InfamIes of usura,
The Steahng of the Mare,. casus bellorum, tC mlts "
sang Mr WIlson, Thomas not Woodrow, Harriet's SpIrIted heIr
(the honours tWIce WIth hIs boots on, that was Welhngton)
and If theft be the malD motIve In government In a large way
there WIll certainly be mInor purlolnments
As long as the SOCIalIsts use theIr accessorIes as red herrIng to beep man's mInd off the creatIon of money
many men's mannlrs videt et urbes 1I'0). :6p:177'L';
ce ruse personnage, OtIS, so Nauslkaa
took down the washing or at least went to see that the maIds dIdn't slack
or sat by the WIndow
at Bagnl Romagna knowIng that nothing could happen and looking lronlcly at the traveler
Cassandra your eyes are Itke tigers' no lIght reaches through them
eatIng lotus, or If not exactly the lotus, the asphodel To be gentildonna m a lost town m the mountalns
on a balcony WIth an Iron railIng WIth a servant behInd her
as It might be In a play by Lope de Vega 482
? and one goes by, not alone,
No hay arnor sin celos
SIn segreto no hay amor
eyes of Dona Juana 11. Ioea,
Cunlzza's shade al trIedro and that presage In the air
whIch means that nothIng will happen that wIll be VIsIble to the sargeants
Tre donne Intorno alia mia mente
but as of conversatIon to follow, boredom of that roman on OlIvIa's staIrs
In her VISIon that stone angle all of hIS scenery
WIth the balustrade, an antipodes and as for the solIdity of the white oxen In all thIS
perhaps only Dr WillIams (Bill Carlos)
Will understand Its Importance, Its benedIctIon He wd/ have put In the cart
The shadow of the tent's peak treads on Its corner peg
markIng the hour The moon split, no cloud nearer than Lucca In the sprIng and autumn
In uThe SprIng and Autumn" there
are
no righteous wars
? LXXIX
OON, cloud, tower, a patch of the battistero
all of a whIteness,
So Salzburg reopens
lit a flame In my thought that the years
Amarl-h A m --ar-I-Il' and her haIr gone white from the loss of hIm
and she not yet thirty
On her wedding day and then thus, for the next time,
at the Splelhaus,
mIght have been two years later
Or Astafieva InsIde the street doors of the WIgmore and wd/ not have ! {nown her
undoubtedly wd/ have put In the cart) present Mr G Scott whlsthng Lih Marlene
WIth pOSitIvely less musical talent than that of any other man of colour
whom I have ever encountered but WIth bonhomie and good humour
(to Goedelin memorIam) Sleek head that saved me out of one chaos
and I hear that G P has salmoned thru all of It Ou sont) and who WIll come to the surface'> And Petain not to be murdered I4 to 13
after SIX hours' discusslon IndubItably, Indubitably rei Scott
I lIke a certaIn number of shades In my landscape 484
MdIrt pIle as per the Del Cossa Inset
think not that you wd/ gain 1f their least caress were faded from my mInd
I had not loved thee half so well
Loved I not womankInd "
? as per / U doan' tell no one I made you that table" or WhItesIde
U ah certaInly dew lak dawgs,
ah gOln' tuh wash you"
(no, not to the author, to the canine unwillIng In question)
WIth 8 bIrds on a WIre or rather on 3 Wires, Mr AllIngham
The new Bechsteln IS electric
and the lark squawk has passed out of season whereas the SIght of a good nIgger IS cheerIng
the bad'uns wont look you straight Guard's cap quattrocento passes a cavallo
on horseback thru landscape Coslmo Tura or, as some think, Del Cossa,
up stream to delouse and down stream for the same purpose seaward
dIfferent lIce lIve In dIfferent waters
some minds take pleasure In counterpoInt
pleasure In counterpoInt
and the later Beethoven on the new Bechsteln, or In the PIazza S Marco for example
finds a certaIn concordance of SIze
not In the concert hall,
can that be the papal major sweatln' It out to the bumm drum? what castrum romanum, what
cc went Into winter quarters"
IS under us'>
as the young horse whinnies agaInst the tubas
In contendIng for certaIn values
(Janequln per esemplO, and OraZlO Vechll or Bronzlno)
Greek rascalIty agaInst Hagoromo Kumasaka vs/ vulgarIty
no sooner out of Troas
than the damn fools attacked Ismarus of the Clcones
4 bIrds on 3 WIres, one bIrd on one
? the unprInt of the IntaglIo depends
In partonwhatIS pressedunderIt
the mould must hold what IS poured Into It In
dIscourse
to get It across e pOl basta
5 of 'em now on 2. ,
what matters IS
on 3, 7 on 4
thus what's hiS name
and the change In wrItIng the song books 5 on 3 aulentIssIma rosa fresca
so they have left the upper church at ASSISl
but the Goncourt shed certaIn lIght on the
french revolutIon
tt paak you dJeep oveh there"
the bacon-rInd banner alIas the 'Vashlngton arms floats over agaInst U gohno
In San Stefano del CavalIerI
God bless the ConstitutIon
and saveIt
tC the value thereof"
that IS the crux of the matter and god damn the perverters
and 1? Attlee attelnpts a Ramsey tt Leave the Duke, go for the gold ))
tt In less than a geologIcal epoch" and the Fleet that trIumphed at SalamIs
and WIlkes's fixed the prIce per loaf
Athene cd/ have done wIth more se"! { appeal caeSIa ocuh
ct Pardon me, yAa. ,j~"
(CC Leave It, I'm not a fool ")
mah?
? U The prIce IS three altars, nlulta n
U paak you dJeep oveh there"
2 on 2
what's the name of that bastard') D'Arezzo, G U t d'Arezzo
notatIon
to rest 3 months In bottle
by the two breasts of Tellus
Bless my buttons, a staff carI
51 come avesse l'lnferno In gran dlSPltto Capanaeus
3 on 3
ch1'lcchlerona the yellow bIrd ? ! .
WIth 6 on 3, swallow-taIls
as from the breasts of Helen, a cup of whJte gold . z cups for three altars Tellus )'? a. feconda
U eachoneInthenameofItsgod"
mint, thyme and baslhcun1,
the young horse whInnIes agaInst the sound of the bumm band, to that C gadgett,' and to the productIon and the slaughter
(on both sides) In memorIam
U Hell' don't they get a bleak for the whIstle"> "
and If the court be 110t the centre of learning m short the snot of peJorocracy
tInsel glIded of fat fussy old woman
and fat snorty old stalholls
tc half dead at the top"
My dear WIlham B Y your ~ was too moderate
U pragmatIc pIg" (1? gOyIm) wIll serve for 2. thIrds of It to say nothIng of the Investment of funds In the Yu-en-mi and sinular ventures
small arms 'n' chemIcals
whereas Mr KeIth comes nearest to Donatello's
o Lynx, my love, my lovely lynx,
(auctor)
. . . ~ . If:
? Keep watch over my wIne pot, Guard close my mountaIn stIll
TIll the god come Into thIs whlskey
ManItou, god of lynxes, remember our corn Khardas, god of camels
what the deuce are you dOIng here') I beg your pardon
U Prepare to go on a Journey U Ct I "
U Prepare to go on a Journey" or to count sheep In PhoenICIan,
How IS It far If you think of It)
So they saId to Lldya no, your body-guard IS not the
town executIoner
the executIoner IS not here for the moment the fellow who rIdes besIde your coachman
IS Just a cossak who executes
WhIch bemg the case, her holdIng dear H J
(Mr James, Henry) literally by the button-hole In those so consecrated surroundIngs
(a garden In the Temple, no less)
and saymg, for 011,Ce, the rIght thIng
namely U Cher maitre"
to lus checqued waIstcoat, the PrIncess Barlatinsky, as the fish-taIls said to Odysseus, EVL Tpol7],
The moon has a swollen cheek
and when the mornmg sun ht up the shelves and battalIons of the West, cloud over cloud
Old Ez folded hIS blankets NeIther Eos nor Hesperus has suffered wrong at my hands
o L ynx, wake S11enus and Casey shake the castagnettes of the bassarlds,
488
? the mountaIn forest IS full of lIght the tree-comb red-glIded Who sleeps In the field of lynxes
In the orchard of Maehds~ (wIth great blue marble eyes
tc because he lIkes to," the cossak) Salazar, Scott, Dawley on SIck call
Polk, Tyler, half the preSIdents and Calhoun
U RetalIate on the capItalIsts" sd/ Calhoun ce of the North" ah yes, when the Ideas were clearer
debts to people In N Y CIty
and on the hIll of the Maehds In the close garden of Vcnus
asleep amId serrIed lynxes
set wreathes on PrIapus "Ia. 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.