Notes for CXVII etseq
F o r the blue flash and the moments benedetta
the young for the old
that IS tragedy
And for one beautIful day there was peace Brancusl's bIrd
m the hollow of pme trunks or when the snow ,vas hke sea foam
Twilit sky leaded with elm boughs Under the Rupe Tarpela
weep out your Jealousles- T o make a church
or an altar to Zagreus 1 ZayQEV; Son of Semele ~e~EAT)
WIthout Jealousy
lIke the double arch of a wmdow
Or some great cololU1ade
801
?
F o r the blue flash and the moments benedetta
the young for the old
that IS tragedy
And for one beautIful day there was peace Brancusl's bIrd
m the hollow of pme trunks or when the snow ,vas hke sea foam
Twilit sky leaded with elm boughs Under the Rupe Tarpela
weep out your Jealousles- T o make a church
or an altar to Zagreus 1 ZayQEV; Son of Semele ~e~EAT)
WIthout Jealousy
lIke the double arch of a wmdow
Or some great cololU1ade
801
?
Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound
.
rsus Alc'\.
ls,
that Inal11ac BonIface, Clermont
& the publIc extremely c"\. clted
George FIfth under the drIzzle,
as In OIle NO'\rtJllber
a nlan who had \vl11ed no \vrong 33 years after the Bard's dtath
'Dalleyrand"
800 years after En Bcrtran~
"en gage", had the four towers,
I(DallLyratld Berlgorrr'"
Urban, an obscenIty
wIth the r<. . nt~ at 40 fronl ~,
Charles of the SueVl
a noose of hght looped oVt. r hIe; shoulder,
Antonlnus declIned to be God Athelstan on occaSIon dIstrIbuted,
Ethelbald exempted fronl taxes, Egbert left local laws,
consuetudtnes ltAnd we bJJayzlls reject your damn bIshops"
749
? Paschal to Anselm
At thts time was Guulaume de POlctlers,
Henry left 100,000 qUId In good cOIn also vessels
Fragmentary
(MaverIck repeatIng thIs queery dogmancly mosaIC=' any mosaIC
You cannot leave these thIngs out 00 6eAEt ? "tJv Et~ x. 6erlJ-ov
but from at least here IS the Charta Magna
I shall have to learn a httle greek to keep up WIth thIS
but so WIll you, drratt you "They want to bust out of the kosmos"
Anselm versus damn Rufus "Uglyl a bore,
dtgestion weak,
Pretty, a whore 1"
brother Anselm IS peSSlmlsttc,
but had a clear hne on the TrinIty, and By sheer grammar Essentla
fenurune
Immaculata
Immaculabtle Ambrose
"FIrst treason shepherd to :flock "
and they want It apocryphal Franks ten years exemptIon from taxes
Valentlman to oust the Alam
and then Omma Gallta, Faramond, 425 Pepin, over an altar to Zagreus,
75?
accenslo
? Ethelbald tax e>. . enlptlons
Charles to Offa, a belt, one hunganan sword
Quendrlda bumped off brother Kencltn, Egbert left local law~
"Looping the hght o'\er nlY shoulder," (Charles of the SueVl)
"Drew me over fiery nlountalns'J
As IS left In Hanulf\ Chrnnlcll Thus dr<. . 1I11ld It For a thousand yea. rs savages against manIacs
and VIce versa Alfred sorted out hundreds, ttthings,
They probably murdered Erlgena, Athelstan gon Yllden rere, after 925
Aunt Ethelfled had been lIterate, Canute for alleVIatIon of Alp tolls
Gerbert at the astrolabe better tha. n Ptolemy,
A tenth tIthe and Clrcet o f com
With a CromInelyn at the breech-block
or a del Valle, ThiS IS what the SWIne haven't got
wIth theIr
1tr1vouPY(cx
GUido had read the Prosloglon
as ha. d, presumably, Villon
75I
? So slow IS the rose to open
A match :flares In the eyes' hearth,
then darkness ((VenIce shawls from Demeter's gown"
ThIs Tzu could gUIde you III sonIC dungs,
CVI
AND was her daughter lIke that, Black as Demeter's gO\Vll,
eves, 11alr;, DIS' brIde, Queen over Phlcgetholl,
gIrls faInt as mIst abollt her>
The strength of nlen IS 111 graIn Kuan NINE decrees, 8th essay, the Kuan
but not hIther, How to govern IS from the tune of Kuan Chung
but the cup of whIte gold at Patera Helen's breasts gave that
runs thru lus zodIac,
mlsnamtng no Caledon,
not In memory,
In etermty
and ltas a Wlnd's breath that changIng Its dIrectIon changeth Its nameJ) ,
Apehota
752.
Tzu
? for the gold hg11t of wheat surgIng upward ungathered
Persephone In the cotton-field gran. lte ne"Ct sea wave
IS for clarIty
deep waters reflectIng all fire
nueva lumbre,
Earth, AIr, Sea
In the flame's barge over Amazon, OrInoco, great rIvers
"But for Kuan Chung we should solI dress as barbarIans" And If Antorunus got there, thIS was hIdden
Kuan, hIdden ? Ad posteros urbem donat,
cOin'd ArtemIs all goods lIght agaInst cOIn-skIll
If there be 400 lllountains for copper-
wlder cInnabar you WIll find copper-
rIver gold IS fron1 Ko Lu,
prIce from XREIA, Y ao and Shun ruled by Jade
That the goddess turn crystal wltlun her This IS graIn rIte
LUIgI In the lull path
thIS IS graIn rIte
near Enna, at Nyssa
CIrce, Persephone so dIfferent 15 sea from glen that
the JunIper IS her holy bush
753
? between the two pIne trees, not CIrce but CIrce was lIke that
cOInIng [roin the 110use of S11100the stone "not know whIch god'
nor could enter her eyes by probIng the lIght blazed behInd ller
nor was tIllS from sunset
Athene PronOla,
In hypostaSIS Hellos, Perse CIrce
Zeus ArtemIS out at Leta Under wIldwood
Help Ule to lleede
By Clrceo, the stone eyes loobllg seaward
Nor could you enter her eyes by probIng The tenlple shook WIth Apollo
As WIth leopards by mount's edge, lIght blazed behuld her,
trees open, theIr nlInds stand before them As In Carrara IS whIteness
Xorol At Sulmona arc hall heads Gold hght, In veIned phylotaxls
By hundred blue-gray over theIr rock-pool, Or the kIng-wIngs In nligratlon
And In thy mInd beauty, 0 ArtemIS Over asphodel, over broom-plant,
faun's ear a-level that blossom Yao and Shun ruled by Jade
Whuder lch mael hdhan
helpe me to neede
754
? the flowers are blessed agaInst thunder bolt helpe me to neede
That great acorn of lIght bulging outward, Aqullela, caffarls, caltha pallstrls,
uleA, that IS gorse, herys arachnltes, Scrub oak clImbs agaInst cloud-wall-
three years peace, they had to get rId of hIm,
- VIolet, sea green, and no name CIrce's were not, havIng fire belund thenl
Buck stands under ash grove, JasmIne tWInes over capItols
Selena ArSlnoe So late dId queens rIse Into heaven
At Zephyrlum, July that was, at Zephyrlum The hIgh admIral bUIlt there,
Aedlficavlt
TO APHRODITE EUPLOIA
"an AeolIan gave It, ex voto
Arslnoc Kupris
At MIWO the moon's axe IS renewed
HREZEIN Selena, [oaln on the wave-swIrl
In XorOl
Out of gold lIght floodIng the perIstyle Trees open In Paros,
Wrute feet as Carrara's whIteness
God's eye art 'ou
The columns gleam as If cloIsonne,
The sky IS leaded WIth elm boughs
? eVIl
The azalea 15 grown whIle we sleep In Sehnunt',
Coke Inst 2
In Akragas
to all cathedral churches to be read 4 tImes In the yeare
20 H 3
that IS certaInty
mother and nurse of repose
he that holdeth by castle-guard
pays no scutage
And spealang of clarIty
MIhte, Coke, Edwardus "that lIght whIch was SIgler'
of Berengar hIs heIrs was thIs Eleanor
all the land stored wIth ploughs, & shall be at the least as he
quod custod' vendI non debent LIght, cubIc
by volume
so that Dante's VIew IS qUIte natural,
(Tenth, ParadIso, nel Sale) non per color, rna per lume parvente
Custumier
de la foresta
are yellow-green after sunset In pohtique capaCIty a kIng dIes not
de Normand' 14
H
3
receIved It
? anCIent eit franchtes,
ne InJuste vexes
progressus ostendunt
Magna Charta, chap m
periplum, aSSlse In perlplum
and Kung also was nunister
the root IS that charter
"It appeareth In Glanvll"
saVIng lus wamage (hts cart) hon11num de VIClneto
sacramentum proborum lalcum tenementum
"It appeareth In GlanvII" "de par Ie monde"
J'al connu the books of a scholler hIS countenance
H2 E I
to theIr glory
en temps Ie roy HenrI deux
and that slobberIng bugger JIm FIrst bItched our herItage
OBIT, In Stratford 1616, Jacques Pere obIt, In 33 years Noll cut down CharlIe
OBIT Coke 1634 & In '49
Puer Apuhus ver l'estate Voitalre could not do It, the french could not do It
Noll cut down CharlIe
757
? they had not Magna Charta In ver l'estate, Queen of Akragas
resistent,
Templum aedlficavlt Segesta
hospitahty of the anCIent ornaments and commandatlons of England
II Inst XXI
nee all! boscum,
high-wood IS called saltus,
m Fleta, maeremlum qUI utlagatus est
and a lIteracy In these aunClent authors to understand aunClent statute
agaInst who fishes wIth ktdells and skarkells
or makes that several whIch ought to be common
from the sheepes back 9 tenths of our export (note to cap 25)
so that after one set of damned scoundrels (tonsured) another set of damned scoundrels
(untonsured) the foulest of all these JImmy Stuart
Coke the clearest mmd ever In England Vltex, whIte eglantme
as tenthrI1 thrn grill-work wave pattern at ExcldeUll
A spIre level the well-curb,
Mme Pierre bought a lamb In that market
Atque In re publica maXlme conservanda sunt lura belli IS called butlerage
? paId only by merchant strangers (cap xxx) wooll woolfels & leather
hearth slIver abolIshed
naught new Imposed until Mary
o f allome, ScacarrlO R o t 319
In the Pope's domInIon
on currants was agaInst law In commun ley
III S 1111 d
ad mesure, Laws o f Edgar ex omm satrapla
a CIrcuIt of perambulatIon 511 ne fUlt dtzeln
quod trltlunga teneatur Integra decemvirale collegIum
Xxxv
exceptls viriS rehgloslS et
sub colore donatlonls
That IS our PIVOT
vide Bracton
hIS testlbus
Statute de Merton
seven mIles from the CIty of London
between hIm and the PrIor of BIngham
on the morrow after the feast of St VIncent 18 H 3 according to Bracton
& thiS Hellanor was of the daughters, heIrs of Raymond Berengar
and SIster of Arch Cantaur
759
were call'd chartae
canons regular
? & of braIn-wash
de la plus beale
I stj the symbolJ
then the InvaSion of Bede's time
and the hog-wash W Ith KIng James
hIs llverslon"
tIll In 1850 to unfashloll the lIngua latIna,
to drIve truth out of currIcula
Coke's quotes mIght have told somethulg
Alex, Antonlnus In blot-out
and Randolph, not to dtstrelne come In sheafes
Edward IIMIrror of PrInces"
Statute of Merton, Cap FIve 5 groats to an ounce of SlIver
not subject to [orrein lawes
One thousand two SIxty seven
KIng Henry's 52 m the Utas of St Martin
lias well hIgh as low" SapIens InClplt a fine
Box hedge, the garden In form,
helIotrope, kahkanthus, baslhcum
the red bIrd, that 15 a cardInal,
lark almost out of season
had been a field full at Allegre
as 40 rISIng together,
Was new com 1560,
the short taIls
corruptIon of Symbol
? '65, dutch weavers In NorwIch at terms, whores In St Paul's,
TrInIty, Mlchaelmas, HIllary IS from Jan 23rd
Each wench to a pIllar
((as do the SerJeants at lawe"
To use gra111 for food only,
bUIld no more houses In London
de heretlco comburendo
Bacon for, Coke opposIng
In a wmte sheet In the Savoy
500 marks, be ImprIsoned
SIr Henry (1628) Martrn gave sentence InvasIon of the rIghts of lus subjects
3 months to habeas B I8
The tapestrIes were stIll there In ChaIse DIeu, the sky's glass leaded wIth elm boughs
Marlowe greeks It (JoY] 6v Avon's man
says It In enghsh
and If the stone can be perfect GaudIer has left us three Ninas,
DIana crumbles In Notre-Dame des Champs but the bronze must be somewhere,
Amphl0n not for museums but for her mInd
hke the underwave N at the ghtter 2 fathoms Inshore,
the coral lIght sIftIng slowly mId sea-fans
or stone
? color preduetto the crystal body of alr
deep green over azure Sirenes <riiPtXy~ as crystal ~eLp~v
dark hIppocampI &SAX~PL1) Norfolk tumbler, a small sort o f greyhound
to Cecu,
god's antennae
Planted Sao mulbernes-
that was Hatfield-
and Vines from south of the Channel But had enclosed common pasture
Gondemar "devtlln dung-cart" 1
Flaccus' translator wore the crown
The Jew and the buggar dragged It down "DevIl III dung-clrt" Gondcm'\r
And RaleIgh's head on KIngJames' platter"
"That the dead wIll not fawn to advance themselves" 1621, December eleventh
So that Dante's VIew 15 qUIte natural dus hght
as a nver
In Kung, In Ocellus, Coke, AgassIZ
pe! , the floWing
tlus persIstent awareness Three Nmas from Gaumer,
TheIr mama IS a lustIng for famess Bhnd to the olIve leaf,
the great algae
? not seeIng the oak's veins Wheat was In bread In the old days
(I 46 after lmd-mght) Alan Upward's seal showed Sltalkas
Com was In Anlbracla, The caelator's son, named Pythagora
? CVIII
COMMINUIT
there IS frost on the rock's fd. ee
nurse of Industry (25 Edward III) BRUM
"alIa" at Verona
of courage
havIng none hath no care to defend It
* pen yeh
for the kIndness,
InfinIte,
of her hands
From the Charter to the PetitIon 1628
In June and toward tWlhght DROIT FAIT
Enrolled In the ball o?
Statutum Tallaglo
U nor agaInst ms wullnto Ireland"
not cloth from out of the Realm Owse, Wherfe, NId, Derwent,
lCall monopolIes"
autarchla
f fire
as brIghtness
Lambarde on Valla
clear emerald
? Swale, Yore & TIne
Post Festu111 Sanctl Hllarll
InuIts des ll1als et dlshcrlsOllS 18E I
ne curge de S Ed\vard prochalnCnlCl1 t
and hIs father H 3 before hUll llC qUlS 111Jurlanl-
salvul1l conductull1
dIe dCClll10ctavo was 15 000 three score
a d 1290
18dIeJul II, 18EI
DIvers had banIshed
but the usurIes, no Ktllg before 111m
Hall fo1 285
Wals hyped Florl1cglt1s Dunstable
Angltac e:heuntlbus,
and Uncle Carlo
and, froin Taufcrs, Marghenta No officer of ours or our heIrs'
takt. . corn, ltather or cattle wIthout assent of the party
CUJUS bona
Bt Forcstae
per la grace de Dleu
Dangleterre to be publIshed
25 Edward Devant eux en Judgenlent
? ? cestascaVOlr
et en alncndement
& If contrary shall be undone tlus nlent tenus
and read per an, deux fOIts tWIce a year
Olent a gUlcr
mIses ne prlses 1272 raIsed Into precedcl1t 25
ConfirmatlonlS Chartorum
Cap VI bItched by Dlsraeh de la maletot des leyes
40 shIllings nous lettres ouverts
nostre fits a Londres Ie x Jour Doctobre the five and 20tll year
Custonles 6 slulhngs 8 pence
dlmldluln 111arCUlll treccntls pclhblls
ahorum hberorum
34th year nullum tallagIum
(or tallogIum)
In pleno parhamento
& no Increase In burocracy
or to, or for, any subject
et vacua nulla,
any InfrIngement
nIhIl caplatur
1297
? our pardon of Bohutl of H<. . rLford, John dl Ferran')
and that tlllfi be read 111 the churchLS Bohun, Ft. ltoIl FerrarIs
Dcf<. . . nd<. rs
Artlcul a SOl1 pcopll. CEST ASCA VOIR
& that they be read 4 tlnles the year Sheng Yu
MIchael, Xlnas, Easter, SaInt John & be trIed locally
prIson, ransonl, anlerce
according to trespass
and Charles kept thIs seven years under the hatches
1634-'4 1
Felton's knIfe wa~ a tenpenny artIculI suplr Charta~
SOlent c~llus
28th Edward
trol~ prodcs cht. vahcrs au autrc~ aVlscs
for "Vlerge" sec Fleta, 12 tUlles rOWld about the KIng's house
HastIngs Dover HIthe RUlnney SandwIch by reason of the narrownesse
It sheriffi electlve M
of the sea there
Henry III 1216-'72 E I 1272-13? 7
? when. . shrivahty IS not In fee ou VIscount nest Illy de fcc
In those Inquests next 11<'Jghbors "that they be Inost sufficIent"
and IS agaInst packIng JurlCS
et malveyes prOCtllers
De lum bank et lauter
agaillst Wl1hanl of Helnls\\cll, parson
Be marked wIth a leopard's l1cad
no worse than the touch of ParIS
Elfynge Cler Domus Conl
Nor set any stolle In gold except It be natural
28 Edward I, a D 1300 auxy SOlt slgne teste de leopard
and false stolle not set III true gold Pertalue to the Kll1g oncly
to put a value to COl11 And to make prIce of the quantIty
Cap xx and of 12 graInes In mId-car
ELIZABETH
frumento In medIae spIcae magnaha coronae
Anghae amor,
ad valorem reducta
To take wood to melt ore non extat memorIa
ardendam, fundendam
ArtIculI twenty
? & souls of the dtad defrauded
3) Ed\\ard
send or cause to b{. sent out of the. Klngdolll
and that the seal be III cu~tod\ of four tl1cn dlgnlorlbus & tht. prior
wen abbots may VISIt, not c'\. port
by t11<. . ans ~hlrc. . ofda1I) alnlcs \\as decayed to Paragots alone
10 000 Illarks
aherugenae superlort. . S
the brocars of Rome prOIll0tt. . caltlfes It. . arnlng decayeth
Rot, parI 50 E damnable cUSt01l1S Introduc o f nc\v 111 Ronla
That grosbols IS oak, a~h, tIn),
bCt. ch, hOI\bLChL &. hornbealn
but of acorns tIthe. shall be. . paid For every lamb a penny
tlIllC out of n1111d
one hra p<. . r sheep nel Tlrolo
sale must be 111 place overt not 1]1 a backe-room
& between sun-up & sun-dow11 dIes solarls
ut pena. ad paucos
metus ad omnes pervenlat
of 2 rights the more anCIent preferred caveat Clnptor
? HORSFAlRE from 10 of the clock before noon untIl sunset
the queenes dominIons PhIl, Mar
Colour, with one speclall mark at the least
of every such horse, mare, colt, geldIng
on paIne of default 40 shtlhngs rIdden openly for one hour
and after 10 m the mornIng
as mlght be for Cadllacs, Fords & such other
ridden, led, walked or kept standlng
& in free markets to the book-keeper one penny
Coke, long ChIng responsab111
par cretance del ewe whIch 15 french for floodwater
Who for brIdges reparando,
For every new cottage 4 acres Stat de 3I Ebz
77?
Anghae amor
no toll
? CIX
Pro Veritate
curttlagla teneant,
enough land about each of them I6 foot and a halfe to the pole
exceptIons If saIlor, etc town, seasIde or brIckworks
Idlenesse, mother of pICkmgs
EPARXON
Do sell the same In the realme and buy enghsh
not carry COIn, plate or masse out of the country,
Donalson, demzen
8H 6 for cash only In exchange
5 H 4 three months credIt
and books not brought m bound
No wIght could pInch at Ius (LIttleton's) WrItIng long In the makIng,
vocabula arbs NeIther ought legal terms to be changed,
13racton UnCIVIl to Judge a part In Ignorance of the totahty
nemo omma novlt
In men's hearts on the rock of reason and they could not have been
tlexcused Jury servIce" had there been no Juries In hIS, The Confessor's, tIme
AmenItIes are from Ambracla velgne en Court
77I
? and Sellalo
painted that goddess
Ie Concord del fine
Coke
O'UlJ. ~OC(VlXf,
In the 43rd ofElIzabeth The fine cannot omIt ascun chose
contInuance solonques Ie purpot CHARDE dIt estre certalne
In quex Ie terre demeure
certalnty engenders repose
not for the sake of some leasehold but for clarity
"de ses Vlcmes"
TIme mother of Manors Nor can the K. 1ng create a new custom
In the fine print
tempora non regum by a hawk, a paIr of gIlt spurs or slmlha
Cope IS a hIll
dene a valley, arundtnetum drus IS a thicket
51 nomIna neSClS perit rerum COgnitlO nemo arttfex nascltur
Ten famIlies In pledge and a chief pledge Though the bIshoprIc be dIssolved
a City remalneth
tit
Tuan
et consuetudo
772.
(hver dlt)
? "In grateful resentment to Wadsworth, 20 shillings May 15th,
Charles, God's Grace, '62
Town House In Hartford
Brewen, Canfield,
a Body polltique
and meere mOClon Ordeyned, heIrs, successors, Woollcott, Talcot, perpetual
Seal, Governor, Deputy and 12 assIstants
2nd Thursday, May and October
Oathes, ShIp, transport and carry under theIr common seal
and not lunder fishmge for saltmg
by Narrowgancett and on the South by the Sea
Mynes, Mynerals PreCIOUS Stones QuarrIes As of our Mannor East GreenwIch
In Soccage, not Caplte One fifth of all oares Gold and SIlver
23rd April, Westmmster
WIng lIke feldspar
HOWARD
and the foot-grIp firm to hold balance Green yellow the sunhght, more rapId,
Azaleas by snow slope
afraId he wIll balk and not SIgn mobilizatIon,
got, saId Monro, to get rId of hIm (Edche)
He has been around In the hospItals
773
? Who for bridges
reparando
For every new cottage 4 acres Stat de 3I Ehz
Anghae amor And false stone not to be set In true gold
to the lang onely to put value
and to make prIce of the quantIty
auxy SOlt signe teste leopard Clear deep off Taormma
lugh chff and azure beneath It
form IS cut m the lute's neck, tone IS from the bowl
Oak boughs alone over Sellol
Tlus WIng, colour of feldspar
Over wIcket gate
INO Iv&> Kadmela
Erlgena, Anselm,
Jury trial was m Athens
phyllotaxls
the fight thru Herbert and Remusat
Hehos,
Ka. AAW. CT7"po. . 'Yo,AO~Ino Kadmela,
San Domemco, Santa Sabma,
Sta Marla Trastevere
In Cosmedm
Le chapeau melon de St Pierre
Yau In the dInghy (plccloletta) astern there'
774
? DRAFTS & FRAGMENTS OF CANTOS CX-CXVII
? ex
T h y qUIet house
The crozier's curve runs In the wall,
The harl, feather-wlute, as a dolphIn on sea-bnnk
I am all for Verkehr wIthout tyranny - wake exultant
mcaracole Hast'ou seen boat's wake on sea-wall, how crests It ~
What panache>
paw-flap, wave-tap,
that IS galety,
TobaSoJo,
toward hmpldIty,
that IS exultance, here the crest runs on wall
che palon' SI al vent'
2Har-21a-I llu 3k'0
of the wmd sway, The moe fates and the seven,
and the black tree was born dumb, The water IS blue and not turqUOIse
When the stag dnnks at the salt spong
and sheep come down wIth the gentIan sprout,
can you see WIth eyes of coral or turquoise or walk Wlth the oak's root)
777
? Yellow IrIS In that rIver bed yueh4 5
nllng'" nl04S
I
hSlen p' eng 2
Quercus on Mt Sumerl1
can'st 'au see WIth the eyes of turquoISe)
heaven earth 111 the center
IS Jumper
The pUrIficatlons
are snow, raIn, artemiSIa,
also dew, oak and the JUll1per
Andmthyn1111dbeauty,0 ArtemIS,
as ofmountalll lakes In the dawn,
Foam and sIlk are thy fingers,
KUaI10n,
al1d the long suavIty of her movIng, wIllow and olive reflected,
Brook-water Idles,
topaz agamst pallor o f under-leaf
The lake waves Canaletto'd
under blue paler than heaven,
the rock-layers arc'd as wIth a compass, thiS rock IS magnesIa,
Cozzagho, Dmo MartmazZl made the road here (Gardesana)
? SaVOia, Novara at Veneto,
Solan was m that-
Un caso tnste e denho dl memorIa
"Had I ever been m one)" I e a cavalry charge, Uncle G "Knew when I came out that therewd beonehellofarow
m the Senate"
Knox came m, Lodge said "Have you read It>" uFor the last time" he thought It was, till BettoID, lIke Galhffet
(Ibukerla) Cypress versus rock-shde,
Cozzagho, the traccloltno RIccardo Cozzagho
At Olean, the DIVISlone Sforzesca dIsobeyed mto VIctOry,
Had horses wlth them
Fehx nUpslt,
an end
In love WIth Khaty
now dead for 5000 years
Over water bluer than rmdmght where the wmter ohve IS taken
Here are earth's breasts mlrroured
and all Eundlces,
Laurel bark sheathmg the fugltlve,
a day's wraith unrooted)
Neath dus altar now Endymion hes
779
? KALLIASTRAGALOS
KaAAw"crTpayaAo')
that IS, to go forth by day
That love be the cause o f hate, somethmg IS twIsted,
A WOl,
bare trees walk. on the sky-hne,
but that one valley reach the four seas,
mountam sunset mverted
La Tour, San Carlo gone,
and Dleudonne, VOISin
Byzance, a tonlb, an end,
Galla's rest, and thy qUiet house at Torcello
"What' Whatl" says the auzel here, "Tullup" saId that bird I n Vlrglnla,
their meanmg :J
That war IS the destrucQon of restaurants
Quos ego Persephonae
11: chili3
not Wlth Jet planes,
The hohness of thell" courage forgotten
and the BreSClan hons effaced, Untu the mInd Jumps Without buddmg
780
? and there IS no chth and no root Buntmg and Upward neglected,
all the resisters blacked out, From tlme's wreckage shored,
theseafragments -shored agamst rUln,
4 Jth S
new With the day
Mr Rock still hopes to chmb at Mount Kmabalu hIsfragments~unk (20years)
13,455 ft facmgJesselton, Borneo,
FallIng spiders and scorpions,
Give lIght agaInst fallIng pOlson,
A wmd of darkness hurls against forest
the candle flickers IS famt
Luxemm-
versus tIns tempest
The marble form In the pme wood,
The shrme seen and not seen
and the sun
From the roots of sequo1as
pray
AWOl or Komaclu,
the oval moon
it,. . chmg4 1IA pray
There IS power
? Notes for eXI
I,one dung, as relatIon to one thmg HUI SCl~ nJatlon to tl11
20 shl1hngs to Wadsworth
"111 resentnlent "TO\Vll house In Hartford
Roche-Guyon stoned to death at Glsors Power to Issue, au fond,
to ta'\. DIrectory cd have made bulwark o f Italy
post-bag B Austerhtz
Banque de France
MIne de Genlts
Lannes dId not enJoy sight of a battk. ficld Whole lesson of Talleyr'lnd
Wu
HSIeh (heart'~field) Szu
Enlarged hIS empIre
dlmlD. lshed hiS forces,
Ten years a blessIng,
five a nUIsance,
that was Napoleon
wIth constltuttonal guarantees
AprIl 22nd "V ery few mterested"
N toTalleyrand,"rncIVlhzatlon"
So that Alexander asked Tilleyrand what to do about France
? And "to change the meanmg of words themselves from one conference to another "
Oct 31st, Wlen
And 600 more dead at Quemoy- they call It polItical
A nIce qUIet paradIse,
Orage held the basIc was pIty
compaSStoneJ
Arnor
Cold nlcrmald up from black watcr- NIght agamst sea-chffs
the low reef of coral- And the sand grey agamst undertow
as Geryon-Iured there-but In splendour, Veritas, by anthesls, from the sea depth
come burchtello tn su la rtva
The eyes holdmg trouble- no lIght
ex profundls- naught from feigning
Soul melts mto air,
anIma Into aura,
Seremtas
Com'd gold
alsobumped off8000 ByzantInes Edtctum prologo
Rothar
? FromCXII
owl, and \vagtall andhuo3-hu2, thefire-fox Amrta, that IS nectar
\VhIte wInd '\vhlte dc\v Here froll1 the begmnll1g, \\'C have been here
froll1 the begU1111ng From her breath were the goddesses
. . . La -111un. 31111
Ifwe dId not perfornl 2Nda\v Ibpo nothIng IS sohd
wIthout 2Muag Ibpo
no realIty
Agtllty, that IS fron1 tht. . Junlper, flce grows and the land IS InvIsIble By the pomegranate water,
In the ch. . ar aIr
over LI Cluang
The firm VOIce amId pIne wood,
Inany sprIngs are at the foot of
HSIang Shan
By the temple pool, Lung W ang's
the clear dIscourse
as Jade stream
3iyu4
lPl
2 ho
? ArtemISIa
Arundinarla
Wmnowed In fate's tray
~ neath
'qff// luna'
? eXIII
Thruthe 12HousesofHeaven
seelng the Just and the unjust,
tastlng the sweet and the sorry, Pater Hellos tl1rl1111g
"Mortal praIse has no sound In her ears" (Fortuna's)
eQfivo~
And who no longer Iuake gods out of beauty 8gfivo; thIs IS a dyIng
Yet to walk wIth Mozart, AgaSSIZ and Linnaeus
'neath overhangIng air under sun-beat
Here take thy mInd's space
And to thiS garden, Marcella, ever seekIng by petal, by leaf-veIn
out of dark, and toward half- hght
And over Ll ChIang, the snow range IS turqUOIse Rock's world that he saved us for llleIllory
a thIn trace In hIgh aIr
And wIth thenl Pare (Anlbrolst. ) and the Men agaInst Death Twcdd<. . l, Donll<. . lly,
old Pumpelly crossed Gob! "no horse, no dog, and no goat"
"I'd eat hIS liver, told that son of a n d n o w blgod I h a v e d o n e I t "
17 MaggIo,
why not SpIrIts"
But for the sun and sereru. tas
(I9th May'S9)
? H D once saId "Sere111tas"
(AtthIS, etc)
at Dleudonne's
m pre-lustory No dog, 110 horse, and no goat,
The long flank, the fir111 breast
and to know beauty and death and despaIr
and to dunk that what has been shall be, flowmg, ever unstill
Then a partrIdge-shaped cloud over dust storm The hells move In cycles,
No man can see Ius own end
The Gods have not returned "They have never left us "
They have not returned
Cloud's processIonal and the aIr moves WIth theu hVIng
PrIde, Jealousy and possessIveness 3 paIns o f hell
and a clear wInd over garofanl
over Portofino 3 hghts In tnanguiation
OrapplesfroolHesperidesfallIn theIrlap [raIn phantom trees
The old Countess remembered (say 1928) that balltn St Petersburg
and as to how Stef got out of Poland SIr Ian told'em help
would come VIa the sea (the black one, the Black Sea)
Petam warned'em And the road under apple-boughs
? 111o,tl) grl~'-CO\<. It. d And thL ohvc, to \\ lnd\\ arJ
Kalcnd'1 Mal. l L1 S10, Ll S10, tor ~orro\\
but theft, l~ c;oIllLtlllng IntelhglI1t In thL cherry-stone C a n 1 . 1 c ; , b r I d g e ' > , 1 u d hOl1~l. \ \ a I l s
orange. . - 111 \unhght But to hItch scn~lb111t) to tf11cICnC\J ~
grass vcr~t1'\ grall1t<. . , For the httle hght and Ill0re harnl0n)
Oh God of all n1el1, none chcluded
and howls for Schwundgeld 111 the ConventIon
(our Constltutlonal T7 Whlchwhat)
Notlung new but theIr Ignorance, ever p<. . rennl1. 1
Parsley used III the sacrIfice 'lud(calhngP'lulPLtLr) I2((
docs not 11lean one, oh, four, I04t'1;
Errorofcll"lOS JllstlficatlonIS[raInk. IndnessofhC'lrt and froul her hands floweth mercy
As for who denland behef rather than JustIce And the host of Egypt, the pyralnld bul1der,
W altIng there to be born
No more the pseudo-gothIc sprawled house
out over the bndge there
(W ashmgton BrIdge, N Y C )
but everythtng boxed for economy That the body IS mSlde the soul-
? the hftUlg and folding brIghtness the darkness shattered,
the fragment That Yeats noted the symbol over that portico (ParIs)
A n d t h e b u l l b y t h e f o r c e t h a t IS I n l u m - not lord ofIt,
mastered
And to know mterest from usura
(Sac Calroh, prezzo giUStO)
In tIns sphere IS Glustlzla
In mountam aIr the grass frozen emerald
and wIth the mmd set on that lIght
saffron, emerald, seepIng
"but that kInd of Ignorance" saId the old prIest to Yeats
(m a ratlway tram) "IS spreadmg every day from the schools"-
to say nothIng of other varIetIes
ArtIcle X for example-put over, and 100 years to get back
to the awareness of
(what's hIS name In that ConventIon)
And m thy mmd beauty,
o ArtemIS
As to sm, they Invented It-eh~
to Implement dommation
eh~ largely
There remams grumpmess,
malvaglta
Sea, over roofs, but stul the sea and the headland
And m every woman, somewhere In the snarl IS a tenderness,
? A hlue light under ~tars.
The ruined orchard~~tree,; rotting. Ell1pty fratne" at Litl1onc.
And for a little 111agnaniJllity son1c\vhcrc~ And to kno\'" the share froIll the charge
(scala altrui)
God's eye art ~ou,do not surrender perception.
And in thy Blind beauty, 0 ArtCJ11is Daphne afoot in vain speed.
When the Syrian onyx is broken.
Out of dark, thou, Father Helios, leadest,
but the l11ind as Ixion, l111still, ever turning.
79?
? CXIV
pas meme Freron," "Ihateno-one," saldVoltaIre
"not even Freron "
And before Mr Law scarcely 300
and now 1800 great vessels
and he, John Law, dIed i l l Vemce m poverty
W e far from recognIzmg mdebtedness "not even Tom Pick"
"You respect a good book, contradlctmg It- the rest aren't worth powder"
AmId corrIdors and ambassadors
glow worms and lanterns, and tws movmg IS
from the mward o d1 dlversa natura (GIordano Bruno)
and i l l these trIangular spaces ~
And IS here atnong serIOUS characters
and not reasonmg from a belly-ache Or that Arl mIght have heard about fishes,
thank Alex Falls wlute btanco c(h)ade
yet sentIent
sees not
TheIr dichotomIes (femmme) present I n heaven and hell Tenthnls trailing
"Pas meme Freron
h'lls personut.
791
? caught tn rock1\ under \\ave
Gems sunned 3'5 llurrors, 1. 1tcrnatL
These snnpl<. . ll1cn \vho h'lVl fought agalI1litJealousy,
as the luan of Ontldl O,vnerslup' 0\\ nep;lup,
There was a thoughtful 111an natned Macleod To nutlgatt. . o\vl1Lrslup
And the hterature of Jus tlnlC (S'lndro's, Flrcllze) was In paIntlng
Governed by \vood (the control of)
-*
Another by n1etal (control of) Fu HI, etcetera
ThIs IS not vanIty, to have had good guys III the flmdy or fenunlne g1. 1ety-qulck on the uptake
"All the saIne 111 a hundn. d years" "Harve was hke th'lt" (the old c'lt-head
re a quec;tloll of canduct ) "the appoInted when nothIng c'\n c;top I t -
unappolnted whetl nothmg can kdl you" Even old Sarah,
qUIck on the uptake
snoblsm-mente- the trtbu
Armes et blasons' me foot"
AI's conversatIon-reputed
4S
mu
792
? Old Joel's "Locke" found m Texas
and Del Mar vaguely on Assay CommIssIon (H L P )
If It was Del Mar Tanagra mIa, Ambracla,
for the dehcacy
for the kmdness,
The grass flower chngs to lts stalk under Zephyrus Fear, father o f cruelty,
are we to wnte a genealogy of the demons) And onJuly 14th saId
"That hzard's feet are hke snow flakes" 1:? t'Qa~cix. 't1JAO~
(pale yOWlg four toes)
ubi amor,lbl oculus But these had thrones,
and m my mmd were soll, uncontendmg- not to posseSSIon, m hypostasiS
Some hall o f nurrors Quelque toue
"au Louvre en quelque toue"
to reign, to dance I n a maze,
To hve a thousand years m a wmk York State or Pans-
Nor began nor ends anytlung
Boy m the frUlt shop would also have lIked to write somethmg, butsaid "blsognaesserportato"
The kIndness, mfimte, of her hands
Sea, blue under chffs, or
W illtam murmunng "Shgo m heaven
when the mISt came to Tlgulho And that the truth 15 m kmdness
793
u
? From CXV
The SClcntlst~are In terror
and the European 1111nd \to1")
Wyndhanl Le\VlS chost. blIndness rathtr than ha\- chis rnlnd ~top
NIght under wInd Inld garofaru, the petals arc ahnost stIll
Mozart, Lmnaeus, Sulnlona,
When one's frIends hate each other
how can there be peace In the world ;l Their aSperltleS diverted li1e in my green tune A blown husk that IS finIshed
but the lIght SIngs eternal a pale flare over marshes
where the salt hay whlc;per~ to tlde's change TIme, space,
neither lIfe nor death l~ the allc;wer And of man seekIng good,
domg eVIl In melner Heunat
where the dead walked
and the I1vmg were Dlade of cardboard
794
? CXVI
Ca111e Ncptunus
hIs Illlnd leapIng
lIke dolphins, These conct. pts the htll11an llund h'ls att1. 1ned
To luakc Cosnlos-
To achIeve the possible- Muss, wrecked for an error, But the record
the p1. hnlpsest- a httle hght
111 great darkness-
CUlllcuh-
All old "crank" dead In Vlrg1111a Unprepared young burdened wIth records, The VISIon of the Madonna
above the CIgar butts and over the portal
"Have made a mass oflaws"
(111ucchlO dlleggl)
Lltterae nlhtl sanantes JUStInIan'S,
a tangle ofworks unfinIshed
I have brought the great ball of crystal , who can hft It ~
Can you enter the great acorn ofhghtl)
But the beauty IS not the madness
795
? Tho' 111) errors and Vv reck. 'i he about nlC And I anl not a denl1god,
I calulot ll1ak. e I t cohere
Iflove be not 111 the hOUSL there IS nothIng The VOIce of fanl1ne unheard
How caIne beauty agaInst tlu~ bl'lckne~~, TVvIce be1. uty under the eln1~-
To be saved by sqUIrrels and blucJ1Yc; ~ , plus J'allne Ie cluen"
Anadne
DIsney agamst the ll1etaphyslcals,
and Laforgue more than they thought l11lum, SpIre thanked ll1e In proposlto
And I have learned more fron1Jules
(Jules Laforgue) SInce then
deeps In hlnl,
and Lllll1aeUS
el11 cresccdt 1 IlOStrl-
but about that terzo thIrd heaven,
that Venere, agaIn IS all "paradlso"
a nIce qUIet paradIse
over the shambles,
and some clunbmg
before the take-off:
to "see agam. ,"
the verb IS "see," not "walk on"
? I e It coheres all right
even Ifmy notes do not cohere
Many errors,
a lIttle rIghtness,
to excuse Ius hell
and my paradiso And as to why they go wrong,
thmkmg of rightness And as to who w111 copy tlus pahmpsest ~
al poco glorno
ed a1 gran cercmo d'ombra
But to affirm the gold thread In the pattern (Torcello)
aI Vlcolo d'aro
(TlgullIO)
T o confess wrong wIthout losmg rIghtness
CharIty I have had sometImes,
I cannot make It flow thru
A lIttle hght, hke a rushhght
to lead back to splendour
797
? FRAGMEN1 <; OF CJ\NTO~
Addendum for C
Thl-EvI11~Usur\ 11C~(lzc"-
the serpCllt
lle:,c! tek \vho~c l1l111( IS kllO\\ 11 tht dc. . . fiILr,
beyond race and agaInst f l e e
the defiler
TO/o; luc 111ah Inedllull (. . ~t
Here IS the core of e\ II, the burJllug hell \\ Ithout let-up, The canker corruptIng all thll1g~, F1. fil1r the worn1, SyphIlIs of the State, of all k. lngdolll\
W art of the C0111111011-Wl1. 1,
W Llltl-n11kcr, corruptlr o f 111 thln~~
Dark. lle,~ the defih. ,r,
T\V111 evIl of t. nvy,
S l 1 ' t k e o f d u . . ~eVLJl h V l d " H y d r 1 , c . n t t f l n g 1 1 1 t h I n g ,
P'lS~lng the dool Co, of tell1pl<. . ~ defIlIng tht (trove of P l. pho~, tte\ChekJ the crawhng eVIl,
sInne, the corrupter of all tlllng~, POIsoner of the fount,
of all fountams, neschek,
The serpent, evu agaInst Nature's Increase, Agamst beauty
To XUAOV
forlnosus nee est nee decens
? A thousand are dead In lus folds,
m the eel-fisher's basket XaLQf), Q ALcOVll, XaLQ't')
pure Llght, we beseech thee Crystal, we beseech thee
Clarity, we beseech thee
from the labynnth
Sero J sera' learned that SpaIn IS mercury,
that Fmland IS nickel Late learning r
S domg eVll m place of the R
" A pity that poets have used symbol and metaphor and no man learned anythmg from them
for their speakmg m figures "
All other sms are open,
Usura alone not understood Opium Shanghai, OpIum Smgapore "with the SlIver spilla
amber, caught up and turned " Lotophagol
[Ctrca 1941]
799
? N o w ~l1n r I s e s i l l R a n 1 s I g n
WIth clack. of batllboo agalI1~t olIve ,>tock
W e have heard the blrd<; pral~lng Janncqull1 and the blacl cat's tad IS e'\. alted
The sc"\ton of San P'll1taleo pIa\- I'j e 1110bllc" on hl~ canllon "un' e due che la donna (. 1110bl]C"
111 the h111 tower (vldct ct urbes)
And a black head under whIte cherry bough~
precedes us down the saItta
The water-hug's mIttens sho"" 011 the brIght rock below hIm
[Czrca 1941]
800
?
Notes for CXVII etseq
F o r the blue flash and the moments benedetta
the young for the old
that IS tragedy
And for one beautIful day there was peace Brancusl's bIrd
m the hollow of pme trunks or when the snow ,vas hke sea foam
Twilit sky leaded with elm boughs Under the Rupe Tarpela
weep out your Jealousles- T o make a church
or an altar to Zagreus 1 ZayQEV; Son of Semele ~e~EAT)
WIthout Jealousy
lIke the double arch of a wmdow
Or some great cololU1ade
801
? M'amour, m'amour
what do llovt. - and
where are you' That I lost my center
fightIng the \vorld The dreanls clash
and arc shattered- and that I tned to nlake a paradIso
terrestre
La fatlhte de Fran~ols Berllouard, ParIS or a field o f larks at Allegre,
"es lalssa cader"
so high toward the sun and then fallmg,
"deJ01 sa~alas"
to set here the roads of France
Two nl1ce and a moth my gUldes- T o have heard the farfalla gaspIng
as toward a brIdge over worlds That the kmgs meet 111 theIr Island,
where no food IS after fl.
that Inal11ac BonIface, Clermont
& the publIc extremely c"\. clted
George FIfth under the drIzzle,
as In OIle NO'\rtJllber
a nlan who had \vl11ed no \vrong 33 years after the Bard's dtath
'Dalleyrand"
800 years after En Bcrtran~
"en gage", had the four towers,
I(DallLyratld Berlgorrr'"
Urban, an obscenIty
wIth the r<. . nt~ at 40 fronl ~,
Charles of the SueVl
a noose of hght looped oVt. r hIe; shoulder,
Antonlnus declIned to be God Athelstan on occaSIon dIstrIbuted,
Ethelbald exempted fronl taxes, Egbert left local laws,
consuetudtnes ltAnd we bJJayzlls reject your damn bIshops"
749
? Paschal to Anselm
At thts time was Guulaume de POlctlers,
Henry left 100,000 qUId In good cOIn also vessels
Fragmentary
(MaverIck repeatIng thIs queery dogmancly mosaIC=' any mosaIC
You cannot leave these thIngs out 00 6eAEt ? "tJv Et~ x. 6erlJ-ov
but from at least here IS the Charta Magna
I shall have to learn a httle greek to keep up WIth thIS
but so WIll you, drratt you "They want to bust out of the kosmos"
Anselm versus damn Rufus "Uglyl a bore,
dtgestion weak,
Pretty, a whore 1"
brother Anselm IS peSSlmlsttc,
but had a clear hne on the TrinIty, and By sheer grammar Essentla
fenurune
Immaculata
Immaculabtle Ambrose
"FIrst treason shepherd to :flock "
and they want It apocryphal Franks ten years exemptIon from taxes
Valentlman to oust the Alam
and then Omma Gallta, Faramond, 425 Pepin, over an altar to Zagreus,
75?
accenslo
? Ethelbald tax e>. . enlptlons
Charles to Offa, a belt, one hunganan sword
Quendrlda bumped off brother Kencltn, Egbert left local law~
"Looping the hght o'\er nlY shoulder," (Charles of the SueVl)
"Drew me over fiery nlountalns'J
As IS left In Hanulf\ Chrnnlcll Thus dr<. . 1I11ld It For a thousand yea. rs savages against manIacs
and VIce versa Alfred sorted out hundreds, ttthings,
They probably murdered Erlgena, Athelstan gon Yllden rere, after 925
Aunt Ethelfled had been lIterate, Canute for alleVIatIon of Alp tolls
Gerbert at the astrolabe better tha. n Ptolemy,
A tenth tIthe and Clrcet o f com
With a CromInelyn at the breech-block
or a del Valle, ThiS IS what the SWIne haven't got
wIth theIr
1tr1vouPY(cx
GUido had read the Prosloglon
as ha. d, presumably, Villon
75I
? So slow IS the rose to open
A match :flares In the eyes' hearth,
then darkness ((VenIce shawls from Demeter's gown"
ThIs Tzu could gUIde you III sonIC dungs,
CVI
AND was her daughter lIke that, Black as Demeter's gO\Vll,
eves, 11alr;, DIS' brIde, Queen over Phlcgetholl,
gIrls faInt as mIst abollt her>
The strength of nlen IS 111 graIn Kuan NINE decrees, 8th essay, the Kuan
but not hIther, How to govern IS from the tune of Kuan Chung
but the cup of whIte gold at Patera Helen's breasts gave that
runs thru lus zodIac,
mlsnamtng no Caledon,
not In memory,
In etermty
and ltas a Wlnd's breath that changIng Its dIrectIon changeth Its nameJ) ,
Apehota
752.
Tzu
? for the gold hg11t of wheat surgIng upward ungathered
Persephone In the cotton-field gran. lte ne"Ct sea wave
IS for clarIty
deep waters reflectIng all fire
nueva lumbre,
Earth, AIr, Sea
In the flame's barge over Amazon, OrInoco, great rIvers
"But for Kuan Chung we should solI dress as barbarIans" And If Antorunus got there, thIS was hIdden
Kuan, hIdden ? Ad posteros urbem donat,
cOin'd ArtemIs all goods lIght agaInst cOIn-skIll
If there be 400 lllountains for copper-
wlder cInnabar you WIll find copper-
rIver gold IS fron1 Ko Lu,
prIce from XREIA, Y ao and Shun ruled by Jade
That the goddess turn crystal wltlun her This IS graIn rIte
LUIgI In the lull path
thIS IS graIn rIte
near Enna, at Nyssa
CIrce, Persephone so dIfferent 15 sea from glen that
the JunIper IS her holy bush
753
? between the two pIne trees, not CIrce but CIrce was lIke that
cOInIng [roin the 110use of S11100the stone "not know whIch god'
nor could enter her eyes by probIng the lIght blazed behInd ller
nor was tIllS from sunset
Athene PronOla,
In hypostaSIS Hellos, Perse CIrce
Zeus ArtemIS out at Leta Under wIldwood
Help Ule to lleede
By Clrceo, the stone eyes loobllg seaward
Nor could you enter her eyes by probIng The tenlple shook WIth Apollo
As WIth leopards by mount's edge, lIght blazed behuld her,
trees open, theIr nlInds stand before them As In Carrara IS whIteness
Xorol At Sulmona arc hall heads Gold hght, In veIned phylotaxls
By hundred blue-gray over theIr rock-pool, Or the kIng-wIngs In nligratlon
And In thy mInd beauty, 0 ArtemIS Over asphodel, over broom-plant,
faun's ear a-level that blossom Yao and Shun ruled by Jade
Whuder lch mael hdhan
helpe me to neede
754
? the flowers are blessed agaInst thunder bolt helpe me to neede
That great acorn of lIght bulging outward, Aqullela, caffarls, caltha pallstrls,
uleA, that IS gorse, herys arachnltes, Scrub oak clImbs agaInst cloud-wall-
three years peace, they had to get rId of hIm,
- VIolet, sea green, and no name CIrce's were not, havIng fire belund thenl
Buck stands under ash grove, JasmIne tWInes over capItols
Selena ArSlnoe So late dId queens rIse Into heaven
At Zephyrlum, July that was, at Zephyrlum The hIgh admIral bUIlt there,
Aedlficavlt
TO APHRODITE EUPLOIA
"an AeolIan gave It, ex voto
Arslnoc Kupris
At MIWO the moon's axe IS renewed
HREZEIN Selena, [oaln on the wave-swIrl
In XorOl
Out of gold lIght floodIng the perIstyle Trees open In Paros,
Wrute feet as Carrara's whIteness
God's eye art 'ou
The columns gleam as If cloIsonne,
The sky IS leaded WIth elm boughs
? eVIl
The azalea 15 grown whIle we sleep In Sehnunt',
Coke Inst 2
In Akragas
to all cathedral churches to be read 4 tImes In the yeare
20 H 3
that IS certaInty
mother and nurse of repose
he that holdeth by castle-guard
pays no scutage
And spealang of clarIty
MIhte, Coke, Edwardus "that lIght whIch was SIgler'
of Berengar hIs heIrs was thIs Eleanor
all the land stored wIth ploughs, & shall be at the least as he
quod custod' vendI non debent LIght, cubIc
by volume
so that Dante's VIew IS qUIte natural,
(Tenth, ParadIso, nel Sale) non per color, rna per lume parvente
Custumier
de la foresta
are yellow-green after sunset In pohtique capaCIty a kIng dIes not
de Normand' 14
H
3
receIved It
? anCIent eit franchtes,
ne InJuste vexes
progressus ostendunt
Magna Charta, chap m
periplum, aSSlse In perlplum
and Kung also was nunister
the root IS that charter
"It appeareth In Glanvll"
saVIng lus wamage (hts cart) hon11num de VIClneto
sacramentum proborum lalcum tenementum
"It appeareth In GlanvII" "de par Ie monde"
J'al connu the books of a scholler hIS countenance
H2 E I
to theIr glory
en temps Ie roy HenrI deux
and that slobberIng bugger JIm FIrst bItched our herItage
OBIT, In Stratford 1616, Jacques Pere obIt, In 33 years Noll cut down CharlIe
OBIT Coke 1634 & In '49
Puer Apuhus ver l'estate Voitalre could not do It, the french could not do It
Noll cut down CharlIe
757
? they had not Magna Charta In ver l'estate, Queen of Akragas
resistent,
Templum aedlficavlt Segesta
hospitahty of the anCIent ornaments and commandatlons of England
II Inst XXI
nee all! boscum,
high-wood IS called saltus,
m Fleta, maeremlum qUI utlagatus est
and a lIteracy In these aunClent authors to understand aunClent statute
agaInst who fishes wIth ktdells and skarkells
or makes that several whIch ought to be common
from the sheepes back 9 tenths of our export (note to cap 25)
so that after one set of damned scoundrels (tonsured) another set of damned scoundrels
(untonsured) the foulest of all these JImmy Stuart
Coke the clearest mmd ever In England Vltex, whIte eglantme
as tenthrI1 thrn grill-work wave pattern at ExcldeUll
A spIre level the well-curb,
Mme Pierre bought a lamb In that market
Atque In re publica maXlme conservanda sunt lura belli IS called butlerage
? paId only by merchant strangers (cap xxx) wooll woolfels & leather
hearth slIver abolIshed
naught new Imposed until Mary
o f allome, ScacarrlO R o t 319
In the Pope's domInIon
on currants was agaInst law In commun ley
III S 1111 d
ad mesure, Laws o f Edgar ex omm satrapla
a CIrcuIt of perambulatIon 511 ne fUlt dtzeln
quod trltlunga teneatur Integra decemvirale collegIum
Xxxv
exceptls viriS rehgloslS et
sub colore donatlonls
That IS our PIVOT
vide Bracton
hIS testlbus
Statute de Merton
seven mIles from the CIty of London
between hIm and the PrIor of BIngham
on the morrow after the feast of St VIncent 18 H 3 according to Bracton
& thiS Hellanor was of the daughters, heIrs of Raymond Berengar
and SIster of Arch Cantaur
759
were call'd chartae
canons regular
? & of braIn-wash
de la plus beale
I stj the symbolJ
then the InvaSion of Bede's time
and the hog-wash W Ith KIng James
hIs llverslon"
tIll In 1850 to unfashloll the lIngua latIna,
to drIve truth out of currIcula
Coke's quotes mIght have told somethulg
Alex, Antonlnus In blot-out
and Randolph, not to dtstrelne come In sheafes
Edward IIMIrror of PrInces"
Statute of Merton, Cap FIve 5 groats to an ounce of SlIver
not subject to [orrein lawes
One thousand two SIxty seven
KIng Henry's 52 m the Utas of St Martin
lias well hIgh as low" SapIens InClplt a fine
Box hedge, the garden In form,
helIotrope, kahkanthus, baslhcum
the red bIrd, that 15 a cardInal,
lark almost out of season
had been a field full at Allegre
as 40 rISIng together,
Was new com 1560,
the short taIls
corruptIon of Symbol
? '65, dutch weavers In NorwIch at terms, whores In St Paul's,
TrInIty, Mlchaelmas, HIllary IS from Jan 23rd
Each wench to a pIllar
((as do the SerJeants at lawe"
To use gra111 for food only,
bUIld no more houses In London
de heretlco comburendo
Bacon for, Coke opposIng
In a wmte sheet In the Savoy
500 marks, be ImprIsoned
SIr Henry (1628) Martrn gave sentence InvasIon of the rIghts of lus subjects
3 months to habeas B I8
The tapestrIes were stIll there In ChaIse DIeu, the sky's glass leaded wIth elm boughs
Marlowe greeks It (JoY] 6v Avon's man
says It In enghsh
and If the stone can be perfect GaudIer has left us three Ninas,
DIana crumbles In Notre-Dame des Champs but the bronze must be somewhere,
Amphl0n not for museums but for her mInd
hke the underwave N at the ghtter 2 fathoms Inshore,
the coral lIght sIftIng slowly mId sea-fans
or stone
? color preduetto the crystal body of alr
deep green over azure Sirenes <riiPtXy~ as crystal ~eLp~v
dark hIppocampI &SAX~PL1) Norfolk tumbler, a small sort o f greyhound
to Cecu,
god's antennae
Planted Sao mulbernes-
that was Hatfield-
and Vines from south of the Channel But had enclosed common pasture
Gondemar "devtlln dung-cart" 1
Flaccus' translator wore the crown
The Jew and the buggar dragged It down "DevIl III dung-clrt" Gondcm'\r
And RaleIgh's head on KIngJames' platter"
"That the dead wIll not fawn to advance themselves" 1621, December eleventh
So that Dante's VIew 15 qUIte natural dus hght
as a nver
In Kung, In Ocellus, Coke, AgassIZ
pe! , the floWing
tlus persIstent awareness Three Nmas from Gaumer,
TheIr mama IS a lustIng for famess Bhnd to the olIve leaf,
the great algae
? not seeIng the oak's veins Wheat was In bread In the old days
(I 46 after lmd-mght) Alan Upward's seal showed Sltalkas
Com was In Anlbracla, The caelator's son, named Pythagora
? CVIII
COMMINUIT
there IS frost on the rock's fd. ee
nurse of Industry (25 Edward III) BRUM
"alIa" at Verona
of courage
havIng none hath no care to defend It
* pen yeh
for the kIndness,
InfinIte,
of her hands
From the Charter to the PetitIon 1628
In June and toward tWlhght DROIT FAIT
Enrolled In the ball o?
Statutum Tallaglo
U nor agaInst ms wullnto Ireland"
not cloth from out of the Realm Owse, Wherfe, NId, Derwent,
lCall monopolIes"
autarchla
f fire
as brIghtness
Lambarde on Valla
clear emerald
? Swale, Yore & TIne
Post Festu111 Sanctl Hllarll
InuIts des ll1als et dlshcrlsOllS 18E I
ne curge de S Ed\vard prochalnCnlCl1 t
and hIs father H 3 before hUll llC qUlS 111Jurlanl-
salvul1l conductull1
dIe dCClll10ctavo was 15 000 three score
a d 1290
18dIeJul II, 18EI
DIvers had banIshed
but the usurIes, no Ktllg before 111m
Hall fo1 285
Wals hyped Florl1cglt1s Dunstable
Angltac e:heuntlbus,
and Uncle Carlo
and, froin Taufcrs, Marghenta No officer of ours or our heIrs'
takt. . corn, ltather or cattle wIthout assent of the party
CUJUS bona
Bt Forcstae
per la grace de Dleu
Dangleterre to be publIshed
25 Edward Devant eux en Judgenlent
? ? cestascaVOlr
et en alncndement
& If contrary shall be undone tlus nlent tenus
and read per an, deux fOIts tWIce a year
Olent a gUlcr
mIses ne prlses 1272 raIsed Into precedcl1t 25
ConfirmatlonlS Chartorum
Cap VI bItched by Dlsraeh de la maletot des leyes
40 shIllings nous lettres ouverts
nostre fits a Londres Ie x Jour Doctobre the five and 20tll year
Custonles 6 slulhngs 8 pence
dlmldluln 111arCUlll treccntls pclhblls
ahorum hberorum
34th year nullum tallagIum
(or tallogIum)
In pleno parhamento
& no Increase In burocracy
or to, or for, any subject
et vacua nulla,
any InfrIngement
nIhIl caplatur
1297
? our pardon of Bohutl of H<. . rLford, John dl Ferran')
and that tlllfi be read 111 the churchLS Bohun, Ft. ltoIl FerrarIs
Dcf<. . . nd<. rs
Artlcul a SOl1 pcopll. CEST ASCA VOIR
& that they be read 4 tlnles the year Sheng Yu
MIchael, Xlnas, Easter, SaInt John & be trIed locally
prIson, ransonl, anlerce
according to trespass
and Charles kept thIs seven years under the hatches
1634-'4 1
Felton's knIfe wa~ a tenpenny artIculI suplr Charta~
SOlent c~llus
28th Edward
trol~ prodcs cht. vahcrs au autrc~ aVlscs
for "Vlerge" sec Fleta, 12 tUlles rOWld about the KIng's house
HastIngs Dover HIthe RUlnney SandwIch by reason of the narrownesse
It sheriffi electlve M
of the sea there
Henry III 1216-'72 E I 1272-13? 7
? when. . shrivahty IS not In fee ou VIscount nest Illy de fcc
In those Inquests next 11<'Jghbors "that they be Inost sufficIent"
and IS agaInst packIng JurlCS
et malveyes prOCtllers
De lum bank et lauter
agaillst Wl1hanl of Helnls\\cll, parson
Be marked wIth a leopard's l1cad
no worse than the touch of ParIS
Elfynge Cler Domus Conl
Nor set any stolle In gold except It be natural
28 Edward I, a D 1300 auxy SOlt slgne teste de leopard
and false stolle not set III true gold Pertalue to the Kll1g oncly
to put a value to COl11 And to make prIce of the quantIty
Cap xx and of 12 graInes In mId-car
ELIZABETH
frumento In medIae spIcae magnaha coronae
Anghae amor,
ad valorem reducta
To take wood to melt ore non extat memorIa
ardendam, fundendam
ArtIculI twenty
? & souls of the dtad defrauded
3) Ed\\ard
send or cause to b{. sent out of the. Klngdolll
and that the seal be III cu~tod\ of four tl1cn dlgnlorlbus & tht. prior
wen abbots may VISIt, not c'\. port
by t11<. . ans ~hlrc. . ofda1I) alnlcs \\as decayed to Paragots alone
10 000 Illarks
aherugenae superlort. . S
the brocars of Rome prOIll0tt. . caltlfes It. . arnlng decayeth
Rot, parI 50 E damnable cUSt01l1S Introduc o f nc\v 111 Ronla
That grosbols IS oak, a~h, tIn),
bCt. ch, hOI\bLChL &. hornbealn
but of acorns tIthe. shall be. . paid For every lamb a penny
tlIllC out of n1111d
one hra p<. . r sheep nel Tlrolo
sale must be 111 place overt not 1]1 a backe-room
& between sun-up & sun-dow11 dIes solarls
ut pena. ad paucos
metus ad omnes pervenlat
of 2 rights the more anCIent preferred caveat Clnptor
? HORSFAlRE from 10 of the clock before noon untIl sunset
the queenes dominIons PhIl, Mar
Colour, with one speclall mark at the least
of every such horse, mare, colt, geldIng
on paIne of default 40 shtlhngs rIdden openly for one hour
and after 10 m the mornIng
as mlght be for Cadllacs, Fords & such other
ridden, led, walked or kept standlng
& in free markets to the book-keeper one penny
Coke, long ChIng responsab111
par cretance del ewe whIch 15 french for floodwater
Who for brIdges reparando,
For every new cottage 4 acres Stat de 3I Ebz
77?
Anghae amor
no toll
? CIX
Pro Veritate
curttlagla teneant,
enough land about each of them I6 foot and a halfe to the pole
exceptIons If saIlor, etc town, seasIde or brIckworks
Idlenesse, mother of pICkmgs
EPARXON
Do sell the same In the realme and buy enghsh
not carry COIn, plate or masse out of the country,
Donalson, demzen
8H 6 for cash only In exchange
5 H 4 three months credIt
and books not brought m bound
No wIght could pInch at Ius (LIttleton's) WrItIng long In the makIng,
vocabula arbs NeIther ought legal terms to be changed,
13racton UnCIVIl to Judge a part In Ignorance of the totahty
nemo omma novlt
In men's hearts on the rock of reason and they could not have been
tlexcused Jury servIce" had there been no Juries In hIS, The Confessor's, tIme
AmenItIes are from Ambracla velgne en Court
77I
? and Sellalo
painted that goddess
Ie Concord del fine
Coke
O'UlJ. ~OC(VlXf,
In the 43rd ofElIzabeth The fine cannot omIt ascun chose
contInuance solonques Ie purpot CHARDE dIt estre certalne
In quex Ie terre demeure
certalnty engenders repose
not for the sake of some leasehold but for clarity
"de ses Vlcmes"
TIme mother of Manors Nor can the K. 1ng create a new custom
In the fine print
tempora non regum by a hawk, a paIr of gIlt spurs or slmlha
Cope IS a hIll
dene a valley, arundtnetum drus IS a thicket
51 nomIna neSClS perit rerum COgnitlO nemo arttfex nascltur
Ten famIlies In pledge and a chief pledge Though the bIshoprIc be dIssolved
a City remalneth
tit
Tuan
et consuetudo
772.
(hver dlt)
? "In grateful resentment to Wadsworth, 20 shillings May 15th,
Charles, God's Grace, '62
Town House In Hartford
Brewen, Canfield,
a Body polltique
and meere mOClon Ordeyned, heIrs, successors, Woollcott, Talcot, perpetual
Seal, Governor, Deputy and 12 assIstants
2nd Thursday, May and October
Oathes, ShIp, transport and carry under theIr common seal
and not lunder fishmge for saltmg
by Narrowgancett and on the South by the Sea
Mynes, Mynerals PreCIOUS Stones QuarrIes As of our Mannor East GreenwIch
In Soccage, not Caplte One fifth of all oares Gold and SIlver
23rd April, Westmmster
WIng lIke feldspar
HOWARD
and the foot-grIp firm to hold balance Green yellow the sunhght, more rapId,
Azaleas by snow slope
afraId he wIll balk and not SIgn mobilizatIon,
got, saId Monro, to get rId of hIm (Edche)
He has been around In the hospItals
773
? Who for bridges
reparando
For every new cottage 4 acres Stat de 3I Ehz
Anghae amor And false stone not to be set In true gold
to the lang onely to put value
and to make prIce of the quantIty
auxy SOlt signe teste leopard Clear deep off Taormma
lugh chff and azure beneath It
form IS cut m the lute's neck, tone IS from the bowl
Oak boughs alone over Sellol
Tlus WIng, colour of feldspar
Over wIcket gate
INO Iv&> Kadmela
Erlgena, Anselm,
Jury trial was m Athens
phyllotaxls
the fight thru Herbert and Remusat
Hehos,
Ka. AAW. CT7"po. . 'Yo,AO~Ino Kadmela,
San Domemco, Santa Sabma,
Sta Marla Trastevere
In Cosmedm
Le chapeau melon de St Pierre
Yau In the dInghy (plccloletta) astern there'
774
? DRAFTS & FRAGMENTS OF CANTOS CX-CXVII
? ex
T h y qUIet house
The crozier's curve runs In the wall,
The harl, feather-wlute, as a dolphIn on sea-bnnk
I am all for Verkehr wIthout tyranny - wake exultant
mcaracole Hast'ou seen boat's wake on sea-wall, how crests It ~
What panache>
paw-flap, wave-tap,
that IS galety,
TobaSoJo,
toward hmpldIty,
that IS exultance, here the crest runs on wall
che palon' SI al vent'
2Har-21a-I llu 3k'0
of the wmd sway, The moe fates and the seven,
and the black tree was born dumb, The water IS blue and not turqUOIse
When the stag dnnks at the salt spong
and sheep come down wIth the gentIan sprout,
can you see WIth eyes of coral or turquoise or walk Wlth the oak's root)
777
? Yellow IrIS In that rIver bed yueh4 5
nllng'" nl04S
I
hSlen p' eng 2
Quercus on Mt Sumerl1
can'st 'au see WIth the eyes of turquoISe)
heaven earth 111 the center
IS Jumper
The pUrIficatlons
are snow, raIn, artemiSIa,
also dew, oak and the JUll1per
Andmthyn1111dbeauty,0 ArtemIS,
as ofmountalll lakes In the dawn,
Foam and sIlk are thy fingers,
KUaI10n,
al1d the long suavIty of her movIng, wIllow and olive reflected,
Brook-water Idles,
topaz agamst pallor o f under-leaf
The lake waves Canaletto'd
under blue paler than heaven,
the rock-layers arc'd as wIth a compass, thiS rock IS magnesIa,
Cozzagho, Dmo MartmazZl made the road here (Gardesana)
? SaVOia, Novara at Veneto,
Solan was m that-
Un caso tnste e denho dl memorIa
"Had I ever been m one)" I e a cavalry charge, Uncle G "Knew when I came out that therewd beonehellofarow
m the Senate"
Knox came m, Lodge said "Have you read It>" uFor the last time" he thought It was, till BettoID, lIke Galhffet
(Ibukerla) Cypress versus rock-shde,
Cozzagho, the traccloltno RIccardo Cozzagho
At Olean, the DIVISlone Sforzesca dIsobeyed mto VIctOry,
Had horses wlth them
Fehx nUpslt,
an end
In love WIth Khaty
now dead for 5000 years
Over water bluer than rmdmght where the wmter ohve IS taken
Here are earth's breasts mlrroured
and all Eundlces,
Laurel bark sheathmg the fugltlve,
a day's wraith unrooted)
Neath dus altar now Endymion hes
779
? KALLIASTRAGALOS
KaAAw"crTpayaAo')
that IS, to go forth by day
That love be the cause o f hate, somethmg IS twIsted,
A WOl,
bare trees walk. on the sky-hne,
but that one valley reach the four seas,
mountam sunset mverted
La Tour, San Carlo gone,
and Dleudonne, VOISin
Byzance, a tonlb, an end,
Galla's rest, and thy qUiet house at Torcello
"What' Whatl" says the auzel here, "Tullup" saId that bird I n Vlrglnla,
their meanmg :J
That war IS the destrucQon of restaurants
Quos ego Persephonae
11: chili3
not Wlth Jet planes,
The hohness of thell" courage forgotten
and the BreSClan hons effaced, Untu the mInd Jumps Without buddmg
780
? and there IS no chth and no root Buntmg and Upward neglected,
all the resisters blacked out, From tlme's wreckage shored,
theseafragments -shored agamst rUln,
4 Jth S
new With the day
Mr Rock still hopes to chmb at Mount Kmabalu hIsfragments~unk (20years)
13,455 ft facmgJesselton, Borneo,
FallIng spiders and scorpions,
Give lIght agaInst fallIng pOlson,
A wmd of darkness hurls against forest
the candle flickers IS famt
Luxemm-
versus tIns tempest
The marble form In the pme wood,
The shrme seen and not seen
and the sun
From the roots of sequo1as
pray
AWOl or Komaclu,
the oval moon
it,. . chmg4 1IA pray
There IS power
? Notes for eXI
I,one dung, as relatIon to one thmg HUI SCl~ nJatlon to tl11
20 shl1hngs to Wadsworth
"111 resentnlent "TO\Vll house In Hartford
Roche-Guyon stoned to death at Glsors Power to Issue, au fond,
to ta'\. DIrectory cd have made bulwark o f Italy
post-bag B Austerhtz
Banque de France
MIne de Genlts
Lannes dId not enJoy sight of a battk. ficld Whole lesson of Talleyr'lnd
Wu
HSIeh (heart'~field) Szu
Enlarged hIS empIre
dlmlD. lshed hiS forces,
Ten years a blessIng,
five a nUIsance,
that was Napoleon
wIth constltuttonal guarantees
AprIl 22nd "V ery few mterested"
N toTalleyrand,"rncIVlhzatlon"
So that Alexander asked Tilleyrand what to do about France
? And "to change the meanmg of words themselves from one conference to another "
Oct 31st, Wlen
And 600 more dead at Quemoy- they call It polItical
A nIce qUIet paradIse,
Orage held the basIc was pIty
compaSStoneJ
Arnor
Cold nlcrmald up from black watcr- NIght agamst sea-chffs
the low reef of coral- And the sand grey agamst undertow
as Geryon-Iured there-but In splendour, Veritas, by anthesls, from the sea depth
come burchtello tn su la rtva
The eyes holdmg trouble- no lIght
ex profundls- naught from feigning
Soul melts mto air,
anIma Into aura,
Seremtas
Com'd gold
alsobumped off8000 ByzantInes Edtctum prologo
Rothar
? FromCXII
owl, and \vagtall andhuo3-hu2, thefire-fox Amrta, that IS nectar
\VhIte wInd '\vhlte dc\v Here froll1 the begmnll1g, \\'C have been here
froll1 the begU1111ng From her breath were the goddesses
. . . La -111un. 31111
Ifwe dId not perfornl 2Nda\v Ibpo nothIng IS sohd
wIthout 2Muag Ibpo
no realIty
Agtllty, that IS fron1 tht. . Junlper, flce grows and the land IS InvIsIble By the pomegranate water,
In the ch. . ar aIr
over LI Cluang
The firm VOIce amId pIne wood,
Inany sprIngs are at the foot of
HSIang Shan
By the temple pool, Lung W ang's
the clear dIscourse
as Jade stream
3iyu4
lPl
2 ho
? ArtemISIa
Arundinarla
Wmnowed In fate's tray
~ neath
'qff// luna'
? eXIII
Thruthe 12HousesofHeaven
seelng the Just and the unjust,
tastlng the sweet and the sorry, Pater Hellos tl1rl1111g
"Mortal praIse has no sound In her ears" (Fortuna's)
eQfivo~
And who no longer Iuake gods out of beauty 8gfivo; thIs IS a dyIng
Yet to walk wIth Mozart, AgaSSIZ and Linnaeus
'neath overhangIng air under sun-beat
Here take thy mInd's space
And to thiS garden, Marcella, ever seekIng by petal, by leaf-veIn
out of dark, and toward half- hght
And over Ll ChIang, the snow range IS turqUOIse Rock's world that he saved us for llleIllory
a thIn trace In hIgh aIr
And wIth thenl Pare (Anlbrolst. ) and the Men agaInst Death Twcdd<. . l, Donll<. . lly,
old Pumpelly crossed Gob! "no horse, no dog, and no goat"
"I'd eat hIS liver, told that son of a n d n o w blgod I h a v e d o n e I t "
17 MaggIo,
why not SpIrIts"
But for the sun and sereru. tas
(I9th May'S9)
? H D once saId "Sere111tas"
(AtthIS, etc)
at Dleudonne's
m pre-lustory No dog, 110 horse, and no goat,
The long flank, the fir111 breast
and to know beauty and death and despaIr
and to dunk that what has been shall be, flowmg, ever unstill
Then a partrIdge-shaped cloud over dust storm The hells move In cycles,
No man can see Ius own end
The Gods have not returned "They have never left us "
They have not returned
Cloud's processIonal and the aIr moves WIth theu hVIng
PrIde, Jealousy and possessIveness 3 paIns o f hell
and a clear wInd over garofanl
over Portofino 3 hghts In tnanguiation
OrapplesfroolHesperidesfallIn theIrlap [raIn phantom trees
The old Countess remembered (say 1928) that balltn St Petersburg
and as to how Stef got out of Poland SIr Ian told'em help
would come VIa the sea (the black one, the Black Sea)
Petam warned'em And the road under apple-boughs
? 111o,tl) grl~'-CO\<. It. d And thL ohvc, to \\ lnd\\ arJ
Kalcnd'1 Mal. l L1 S10, Ll S10, tor ~orro\\
but theft, l~ c;oIllLtlllng IntelhglI1t In thL cherry-stone C a n 1 . 1 c ; , b r I d g e ' > , 1 u d hOl1~l. \ \ a I l s
orange. . - 111 \unhght But to hItch scn~lb111t) to tf11cICnC\J ~
grass vcr~t1'\ grall1t<. . , For the httle hght and Ill0re harnl0n)
Oh God of all n1el1, none chcluded
and howls for Schwundgeld 111 the ConventIon
(our Constltutlonal T7 Whlchwhat)
Notlung new but theIr Ignorance, ever p<. . rennl1. 1
Parsley used III the sacrIfice 'lud(calhngP'lulPLtLr) I2((
docs not 11lean one, oh, four, I04t'1;
Errorofcll"lOS JllstlficatlonIS[raInk. IndnessofhC'lrt and froul her hands floweth mercy
As for who denland behef rather than JustIce And the host of Egypt, the pyralnld bul1der,
W altIng there to be born
No more the pseudo-gothIc sprawled house
out over the bndge there
(W ashmgton BrIdge, N Y C )
but everythtng boxed for economy That the body IS mSlde the soul-
? the hftUlg and folding brIghtness the darkness shattered,
the fragment That Yeats noted the symbol over that portico (ParIs)
A n d t h e b u l l b y t h e f o r c e t h a t IS I n l u m - not lord ofIt,
mastered
And to know mterest from usura
(Sac Calroh, prezzo giUStO)
In tIns sphere IS Glustlzla
In mountam aIr the grass frozen emerald
and wIth the mmd set on that lIght
saffron, emerald, seepIng
"but that kInd of Ignorance" saId the old prIest to Yeats
(m a ratlway tram) "IS spreadmg every day from the schools"-
to say nothIng of other varIetIes
ArtIcle X for example-put over, and 100 years to get back
to the awareness of
(what's hIS name In that ConventIon)
And m thy mmd beauty,
o ArtemIS
As to sm, they Invented It-eh~
to Implement dommation
eh~ largely
There remams grumpmess,
malvaglta
Sea, over roofs, but stul the sea and the headland
And m every woman, somewhere In the snarl IS a tenderness,
? A hlue light under ~tars.
The ruined orchard~~tree,; rotting. Ell1pty fratne" at Litl1onc.
And for a little 111agnaniJllity son1c\vhcrc~ And to kno\'" the share froIll the charge
(scala altrui)
God's eye art ~ou,do not surrender perception.
And in thy Blind beauty, 0 ArtCJ11is Daphne afoot in vain speed.
When the Syrian onyx is broken.
Out of dark, thou, Father Helios, leadest,
but the l11ind as Ixion, l111still, ever turning.
79?
? CXIV
pas meme Freron," "Ihateno-one," saldVoltaIre
"not even Freron "
And before Mr Law scarcely 300
and now 1800 great vessels
and he, John Law, dIed i l l Vemce m poverty
W e far from recognIzmg mdebtedness "not even Tom Pick"
"You respect a good book, contradlctmg It- the rest aren't worth powder"
AmId corrIdors and ambassadors
glow worms and lanterns, and tws movmg IS
from the mward o d1 dlversa natura (GIordano Bruno)
and i l l these trIangular spaces ~
And IS here atnong serIOUS characters
and not reasonmg from a belly-ache Or that Arl mIght have heard about fishes,
thank Alex Falls wlute btanco c(h)ade
yet sentIent
sees not
TheIr dichotomIes (femmme) present I n heaven and hell Tenthnls trailing
"Pas meme Freron
h'lls personut.
791
? caught tn rock1\ under \\ave
Gems sunned 3'5 llurrors, 1. 1tcrnatL
These snnpl<. . ll1cn \vho h'lVl fought agalI1litJealousy,
as the luan of Ontldl O,vnerslup' 0\\ nep;lup,
There was a thoughtful 111an natned Macleod To nutlgatt. . o\vl1Lrslup
And the hterature of Jus tlnlC (S'lndro's, Flrcllze) was In paIntlng
Governed by \vood (the control of)
-*
Another by n1etal (control of) Fu HI, etcetera
ThIs IS not vanIty, to have had good guys III the flmdy or fenunlne g1. 1ety-qulck on the uptake
"All the saIne 111 a hundn. d years" "Harve was hke th'lt" (the old c'lt-head
re a quec;tloll of canduct ) "the appoInted when nothIng c'\n c;top I t -
unappolnted whetl nothmg can kdl you" Even old Sarah,
qUIck on the uptake
snoblsm-mente- the trtbu
Armes et blasons' me foot"
AI's conversatIon-reputed
4S
mu
792
? Old Joel's "Locke" found m Texas
and Del Mar vaguely on Assay CommIssIon (H L P )
If It was Del Mar Tanagra mIa, Ambracla,
for the dehcacy
for the kmdness,
The grass flower chngs to lts stalk under Zephyrus Fear, father o f cruelty,
are we to wnte a genealogy of the demons) And onJuly 14th saId
"That hzard's feet are hke snow flakes" 1:? t'Qa~cix. 't1JAO~
(pale yOWlg four toes)
ubi amor,lbl oculus But these had thrones,
and m my mmd were soll, uncontendmg- not to posseSSIon, m hypostasiS
Some hall o f nurrors Quelque toue
"au Louvre en quelque toue"
to reign, to dance I n a maze,
To hve a thousand years m a wmk York State or Pans-
Nor began nor ends anytlung
Boy m the frUlt shop would also have lIked to write somethmg, butsaid "blsognaesserportato"
The kIndness, mfimte, of her hands
Sea, blue under chffs, or
W illtam murmunng "Shgo m heaven
when the mISt came to Tlgulho And that the truth 15 m kmdness
793
u
? From CXV
The SClcntlst~are In terror
and the European 1111nd \to1")
Wyndhanl Le\VlS chost. blIndness rathtr than ha\- chis rnlnd ~top
NIght under wInd Inld garofaru, the petals arc ahnost stIll
Mozart, Lmnaeus, Sulnlona,
When one's frIends hate each other
how can there be peace In the world ;l Their aSperltleS diverted li1e in my green tune A blown husk that IS finIshed
but the lIght SIngs eternal a pale flare over marshes
where the salt hay whlc;per~ to tlde's change TIme, space,
neither lIfe nor death l~ the allc;wer And of man seekIng good,
domg eVIl In melner Heunat
where the dead walked
and the I1vmg were Dlade of cardboard
794
? CXVI
Ca111e Ncptunus
hIs Illlnd leapIng
lIke dolphins, These conct. pts the htll11an llund h'ls att1. 1ned
To luakc Cosnlos-
To achIeve the possible- Muss, wrecked for an error, But the record
the p1. hnlpsest- a httle hght
111 great darkness-
CUlllcuh-
All old "crank" dead In Vlrg1111a Unprepared young burdened wIth records, The VISIon of the Madonna
above the CIgar butts and over the portal
"Have made a mass oflaws"
(111ucchlO dlleggl)
Lltterae nlhtl sanantes JUStInIan'S,
a tangle ofworks unfinIshed
I have brought the great ball of crystal , who can hft It ~
Can you enter the great acorn ofhghtl)
But the beauty IS not the madness
795
? Tho' 111) errors and Vv reck. 'i he about nlC And I anl not a denl1god,
I calulot ll1ak. e I t cohere
Iflove be not 111 the hOUSL there IS nothIng The VOIce of fanl1ne unheard
How caIne beauty agaInst tlu~ bl'lckne~~, TVvIce be1. uty under the eln1~-
To be saved by sqUIrrels and blucJ1Yc; ~ , plus J'allne Ie cluen"
Anadne
DIsney agamst the ll1etaphyslcals,
and Laforgue more than they thought l11lum, SpIre thanked ll1e In proposlto
And I have learned more fron1Jules
(Jules Laforgue) SInce then
deeps In hlnl,
and Lllll1aeUS
el11 cresccdt 1 IlOStrl-
but about that terzo thIrd heaven,
that Venere, agaIn IS all "paradlso"
a nIce qUIet paradIse
over the shambles,
and some clunbmg
before the take-off:
to "see agam. ,"
the verb IS "see," not "walk on"
? I e It coheres all right
even Ifmy notes do not cohere
Many errors,
a lIttle rIghtness,
to excuse Ius hell
and my paradiso And as to why they go wrong,
thmkmg of rightness And as to who w111 copy tlus pahmpsest ~
al poco glorno
ed a1 gran cercmo d'ombra
But to affirm the gold thread In the pattern (Torcello)
aI Vlcolo d'aro
(TlgullIO)
T o confess wrong wIthout losmg rIghtness
CharIty I have had sometImes,
I cannot make It flow thru
A lIttle hght, hke a rushhght
to lead back to splendour
797
? FRAGMEN1 <; OF CJ\NTO~
Addendum for C
Thl-EvI11~Usur\ 11C~(lzc"-
the serpCllt
lle:,c! tek \vho~c l1l111( IS kllO\\ 11 tht dc. . . fiILr,
beyond race and agaInst f l e e
the defiler
TO/o; luc 111ah Inedllull (. . ~t
Here IS the core of e\ II, the burJllug hell \\ Ithout let-up, The canker corruptIng all thll1g~, F1. fil1r the worn1, SyphIlIs of the State, of all k. lngdolll\
W art of the C0111111011-Wl1. 1,
W Llltl-n11kcr, corruptlr o f 111 thln~~
Dark. lle,~ the defih. ,r,
T\V111 evIl of t. nvy,
S l 1 ' t k e o f d u . . ~eVLJl h V l d " H y d r 1 , c . n t t f l n g 1 1 1 t h I n g ,
P'lS~lng the dool Co, of tell1pl<. . ~ defIlIng tht (trove of P l. pho~, tte\ChekJ the crawhng eVIl,
sInne, the corrupter of all tlllng~, POIsoner of the fount,
of all fountams, neschek,
The serpent, evu agaInst Nature's Increase, Agamst beauty
To XUAOV
forlnosus nee est nee decens
? A thousand are dead In lus folds,
m the eel-fisher's basket XaLQf), Q ALcOVll, XaLQ't')
pure Llght, we beseech thee Crystal, we beseech thee
Clarity, we beseech thee
from the labynnth
Sero J sera' learned that SpaIn IS mercury,
that Fmland IS nickel Late learning r
S domg eVll m place of the R
" A pity that poets have used symbol and metaphor and no man learned anythmg from them
for their speakmg m figures "
All other sms are open,
Usura alone not understood Opium Shanghai, OpIum Smgapore "with the SlIver spilla
amber, caught up and turned " Lotophagol
[Ctrca 1941]
799
? N o w ~l1n r I s e s i l l R a n 1 s I g n
WIth clack. of batllboo agalI1~t olIve ,>tock
W e have heard the blrd<; pral~lng Janncqull1 and the blacl cat's tad IS e'\. alted
The sc"\ton of San P'll1taleo pIa\- I'j e 1110bllc" on hl~ canllon "un' e due che la donna (. 1110bl]C"
111 the h111 tower (vldct ct urbes)
And a black head under whIte cherry bough~
precedes us down the saItta
The water-hug's mIttens sho"" 011 the brIght rock below hIm
[Czrca 1941]
800
?
Notes for CXVII etseq
F o r the blue flash and the moments benedetta
the young for the old
that IS tragedy
And for one beautIful day there was peace Brancusl's bIrd
m the hollow of pme trunks or when the snow ,vas hke sea foam
Twilit sky leaded with elm boughs Under the Rupe Tarpela
weep out your Jealousles- T o make a church
or an altar to Zagreus 1 ZayQEV; Son of Semele ~e~EAT)
WIthout Jealousy
lIke the double arch of a wmdow
Or some great cololU1ade
801
? M'amour, m'amour
what do llovt. - and
where are you' That I lost my center
fightIng the \vorld The dreanls clash
and arc shattered- and that I tned to nlake a paradIso
terrestre
La fatlhte de Fran~ols Berllouard, ParIS or a field o f larks at Allegre,
"es lalssa cader"
so high toward the sun and then fallmg,
"deJ01 sa~alas"
to set here the roads of France
Two nl1ce and a moth my gUldes- T o have heard the farfalla gaspIng
as toward a brIdge over worlds That the kmgs meet 111 theIr Island,
where no food IS after fl.
