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XXX CANTOS
I
And Anttdea came, whom I beat off, and then Tlreslas Theban,
Holdmg Ius golden wand, knew me, and spoke first
.. A second tlIDe'> why'> man of III star,
t< Facmg the sunless dead and thlS Joyless reglon ~
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I2
IV
Ityn l
cc It 15 Cabestan's heart 10 the dIsh"
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E 10 Sordels Sl fo dt Mantovana,
Son of a poor kmght, Sler Escort,
And he delIghted hImself 10 chan~ons
And mIxed WIth the men of the court
And went to the court of RIchard Samt Bontface
And was there taken WIth love for hIS WIfe
Cumzza, da Romano
That freed her slaves on a Wednesday
Masnatas et servos, witness
PICUS de Farmatls
and Don Ehnus and Don Llpus
sons of Farmato de' Farmatl
free of person, free of wIll
CC
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And old Foscarl wrote It Caro mlO
.. If we splIt wIth Francesco you can have It
.. And we'll help you m every wa) possIble"
But Feddy offered It sooner
And Slglsmundo got up a few arches,
And stole that marble 10 Classe, .. stoic" that IS,
Casus est talts
Foscart doge, to the prefect of Ravenn1
.. Why, what, whIch, thunder, damn1tlOn'~~' "
.. has shown me the deSIgn of the nave that goes jn the mIddle,
cc of the church and the deSIgn for the roof and "
cc JHesus,
MALATESTA DE MALATESTIS
Gwen In Rtmtm, thIS the 2.2nd day 0/ December
anno domInI 1454 "
(m the sIxth year of h,s age)
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•• ILLUSTRIOUS PRINCE
tc Unfittmg as It IS that I should offer counsels to Hanntbal "
.. Magnzfier! ac potelH d0111111£, dom1l1(, 1111 HlI!!,ularmlme,
"httmtlz recomendatzone PI emma etc ThIS to advise your
.. Mgt LdshP how the second load of Veronese marble has
•• finally got here, after bemg held up at Ferrara with no end
.. of fuss and botheratlOn, the whole of It havmg been there
t. unloaded
.. I learned how It happened, and It h1S co~t a few flonns to
.. get back the saId load whIch had been seIzed for the skIpper's
.. debt and defalcatlOn, he havmg fled when the lIghter was
.. seIzed But that yr Mgt Ldshp may not lose the moneys
.. paId out on hIs account I have had the lIghter brought here
.. and am holdIng It, agamst hIs arrIval If not we stIll have
t'the lIghter
.. As soon as the Xmas fetes are over I WIll have the stone
•• floor laId m the sacresty, for whIch the stone 15 already cut
.. The wall of the buudmg IS fimshed and I shall now get the
.. roof on
.. We have not begun puttmg new stone Into the martyr
to chapel, first because the heavy frosts wd certamly spOIl
.. the Job, secondly because the ahofants aren't yet here and
to one can't get the measurements for the cormce to the columns
•• The tomb IS all done except part of the lId, and as soon as
.. MesSlre AgostInO gets back from Cesena I wIll see that he
.. :finIshes It, ever recommendIng me to yr Mgt Ldshp
.. belIeve me yr faIthful
PETRUS GENARIIS"
That's what they found 10 the post-bag
And some more of It to the effect that
he .. hved and ruled ..
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A D the poor devtls dymg of cold, outsIde Saran 0,
And from the other sIde, from m~ld(. the chateau,
Orsml, Count Pltlghano, on the 17th of November
"Slggy, darhnt, wd you not stop makmg wat 011
.. l11senslbIe objects, such as trees and domestIc VlOes, that have
.. no means to hIt back but If you wtll hIre youlself out to a
.. commune (SIena) whIch you ought r'lther to rule than
.. serve "
whIch with Trachulo's damn'd epIstle
And what of It al1)'how~ a man WIth a tln acre lot,
Pltlghano a lump of tufa,
And S had got back the r horses
And the poor devtls dymg of cold
(And there was another tIme, you know,
He sIgned on WIth the Fanesl,
and Just couldn't be bothered )
And there were three men on a one man Job
And CareggI wantmg the baton,
And not gettlOg It Just then 1U any case
And he, SIglsmundo, refused an 1OvltatlOn to lunch
In commemoratIOn of Carm1gnola
(VIde Vemce, between the two columns
where Carmagnola was el..ecuted )
Et
rr anno messo a saccho el StglIor Stgzsmul1do "
As FJlPPo StrozZl wrote to Zan Lottlen, then 10 Naples,
.. I thlOk they'll let hIm through at Campigha "
Florence, Arehtvto Storteo, 4th Serres t tlt, e
rr La Guerra det Senest col conte dt pzttgltano"
El conte levatost
tt 10 te cavero la corata ate'"
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ET SCIUPTURA EX ORE PRODnT, QUAE DICERET
SIGISMUNDUS HIC EGO SUM
MALATESTA, FILIUS PANDULPHI, REX PRODITORUM,
DEO ATQUE HOMINIBUS INFESTUS, SACRI CI:NSURA SEN ATUS
IGNI DAMNATUS,
SCRIPTURAM
MULTI LEGERUNT DEINDE ASTANTE POPULO, IGN!:. IMMISSO,
ET PYR.A SIMULACRUM REPENTE FLAGRA VIT
Com PtO II, Ltv VII, P 85
Yrzarte, p 2.88
And old PIlls who trIed to get hIm mto a front rank actIon
In order to dnve the lear guard at hIs buttocks,
Old PIlls hsted among the murdered, although he
Came out of }axlllVlng later
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XI
A D
Baldy Bacon
we SIt here
under the wall,
Arena romana, DlOcletlan's, les gradms
quarante-trOls rangees en cal caIre
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K NGWalked
by the dynastIc temple
and Into the ced'1r grove,
and then out by the lower Civer,
And wIth hIm KhIeu, Tchl
and Tlan the low speakIng
And tt we are unknown," saId Kung,
u You will take up chanoteenng)
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75
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79
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1\ Dof Kublal
U I have told you of that emperor's city 1Il detw
Also sabotage
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tC It's a long time smce I am't had tew rent any money"
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S OUND slender, quasI tInnula,
Llgur' aOlde Sl no'us Vel, Domna don plus ml cal,
Negus vezer mon bel pensar no val"
Between the two almond trees flowering,
The vlel held close to hIs sIde,
And another s'adora"
.. Possum ego naturae
non memlWsse tuae I " QUl son ProperZlo ed OVldlo
And they were there before the wall, Toro, las almenas,
(Este, NIC Este speakmg)
Under the battlement
(Epi purgo) peur de la hasle,
And the KIng saxd
c. God what a woman'
My God what a woman" Said the Kmg tela rigido
.. Sister' .. says Ancures, .. '5 your sister' "
Alf left that town to ElVira, and Sancho wanted
It from her, Taro and Zamora
.. Bloody spaniard'
Neestho, le'er go back
m the autumn "
"Este, go' damn you" between the walls, arras,
Painted to look hke arras
Jungle
Glaze green and red feathers, Jungie,
BaslS of renewal, renewals,
Rtsmg over the soul, green vlrld, of the Jungle,
Lozenge of the pavement, clear shapes,
Broken, dlSrupted, body eternal,
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W J1derness of renewals, confusIOn
BasIS of renewals, subsIstence,
Glazed green of the Jungle,
Zoe, Marozla, Zothar,
loud over the banners,
Glazed grape, and the crImson,
HO BIOS,
COSI Elena vedI,
In the sunlIght, gate cut by the shadow,
And then the faceted aIr
Floatmg Below, sea churmng shmgle
FloatIng, each on 10VIsIbie raft,
On the hIgh current, 10Vlsible flUId,
Borne over the pla1O, recumbent,
The rtght arm cast back,
the nght WrIst for a pulow,
The left hand lIke a calyx,
Thumb held agamst finger, the thIrd,
The first fingers petal'd up, the hand as a lamp,
A calyx
From toe to head
The purple, blue-pale smoke, as of 1Ocense,
Wrapped each 10 burnous, smoke as the olIbanum's,
SWift, as If JOYous
Wrapped, floatmg, and the blue-pale smoke of the 1OcensE'
SWIft to nse, then lazuy 10 the wmd
as Aeolus over bean-field,
As hay 10 the sun, the olIbanum, saffron,
As myrrh wIthout styrax,
Each man In hIS cloth, as on raft, .:>n
The hIgh mVIsible current,
On toward the fall of water,
And then over that cataract,
In aIr, strong, the brIght flames, V shaped,
Nd fuoco
D'amore nu mIse, nel fuoco d'amore ml mISe
Yellow, bnght saffron, croceo,
And as the ohbanum bursts Into flame,
The bodIes so flamed In the aIr, took flame,
.. M1 mlSe, II miO sposo novello "
Shot from stream Into SPital,
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to FInd me a gardener
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XXII
Jesu ChrISto'
Standu nel paradISO terrestle
Pensando come SI fesse compagna d'Adamo"
And Mr H B wrote In to the office
I would lIke to accept C H 's book
But It would make my own seem so out of date
Heaven wIll protect
The lay reader The whole fortune of
Mac Narpen and Company IS founded
Upon Pal grave's Golden Treasury Nel paradISO terrestre
And all the matenal Was used up, Jesu ChrIsto,
And everythIng In Its place, and nothmg left over
1 0 make una compagna d'Adamo Come SI fesse ~
E pOI ha Vlshtu una volpe
And the tau of the volpe, the VIxen,
FIne, spreadmg and handsome, e pensava
That will do for thIs busmess,
And la volpe saw In hIS eye what was commg,
Corre, volpe corre, Chnstu corre, volpecorre,
ChrIStucorre, e dav' un saltu, ed ha preso la coda
Della volpe, and the volpe wrenched loose
And left the taIl m hIS hand, e dl questu
Fu fatta,
e per questu
1: la donna una funa,
Una fuRRla-e-una rabbla
10.1
And a VOIce behInd me In the street
.. Meestalr Freer' Meestalr "
And I thought I was three thousand
MIles from the nearest connectIOn,
And he'd known me for three days, years before that,
And he saId, one day a week later W oud you lak
To meet a wholley man, yais he IS a veree wholley man
So I met Mohamed Ben Abt el HJameed,
And that everung he spent hIs whole tlme
Queenng the shIrt-seIler's busIness,
And takIng hot whIskey The saIlors
Come In there for two nIghts a week and :fill up the cafe
And the rock scorpIOns chng to the edge
UntIl they can't Jes' nacherly stand It
And then they go to the Calpe (Lyceo)
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O£ CUICEo,7IOLO 'lT€po,Uo,l;
EUlCo,TE",o,£7IE )(p1JtF€OV
Rlmml
our servant, SIX hre marchesml,
Feb 1422
We desire that you our factors give to Zohanne of
IIZ
That was a Judge of the court and noble,
And called Madonna Laodamla delh Romel,
Beheaded 10 the pa della Justlcla,
And 10 Modena, a madonna Agnesma
Who had p01soned her husband,
"All women known as adulterous,
.. That hIS should not suffer alone"
Then the wnt ran no further
And 10 '3 I marned Monna RIcarda
Be It enacted
to Donna Sorantla Soranzo that she come for the
feast of Ascension by night In a covered boat and
alight at the rlpa del Palazzo, and when first sees the
ChrlStblood go at once up mto the Palace and may
stay In the Palace VIII days to VISit the Doge her
father not In that txme leaVIng the palace, nor
descending the palace stair and when she descends It
that she return by nIght the boat In the hke manner
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hemg covered To be revoked at the councll's pleasure
accepted by S of the council
I33S 3 hre 15 groats to stone for maklng a hon
1340 CounCIl of the lords noble, Marc Enzlo
NIC Speranzo, Tomasso Gradonlco
that the hall
be new bmlt over the room of the rught watch
and over the columns toward the canal where the walk IS
~54 da parte
de non ~3
4 non SIncere
WInch IS to say they bmlt out over the arches
and the palace hangs there In the dawn, the nust,
In that dImness,
or as one rows In from past the muraZZl
the barge slow after moon-rIse
and the VOIce soundmg under the sall
MISt gone
And SulplCla
green shoot now, and the wood
wlute under new cortex
c. as the sculptor sees the form In the aIr
before he sets hand to mallet,
to and as he sees the ln, and the through,
As IVOry uncorrupted
.. Pone metum Cennthe'~
Il7
Lay there, the long soft gr1SS,
and the flute hy there by her thlgh,
SulplcIa, the fauns, tWIg-strong,
gathered about her,
The fluId, over the grass
Zephyrus, paSSIng through her,
e< deus nee laedIt amantes "
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A D
I came here In my young youth
and lay there under the crococble
By the column, lookmg East on the FrIday,
And I saId Tomorrow I Wlll he on the South SIde
And the day after, south west
And at mght they sang In the gondolas
And m the barche WIth lanthorns,
The prows rose sliver on sliver
takmg hght In the darkness .. Relaxetur , ..
lIth December 1461 that Pastl be let out
WIth a caveat
cc caveat Ire ad Turchum, that he stay out of
ConstantInople
.. If he hold dear our government's pleasure
.. The book WIll be retamed by the councll
(the book beIng ValturIo's .. Re Mlhtarl")
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To Bernard Justmlan, 28th of October
.. Segunchno IS to come back wIth the news
U Two or three days after you get thIs"
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132.
XXVIII
•• Je SUIS
(Across the bare planks of a dm1Ogroom 10 the Pyrenees)
plus fort que
Ie Boud-hah' ..
(No contradIctIOn)
.. Je sws
plus fort que Ie
ChrISt'
(No contradIctIOn)
CC J'aurals
aboh
Ie pOlds' ..
(Suence, somewhat unconv1Oced)
And m hiS waste house, detritus,
As It were the cast buttons of splendours,
The harbour of MartInIque, drawn every house, and m detail
Green shutters on half the houses,
Half the thmg stIll unpamted
.. sont
"I'm fan tene KOH-
lon-
1-ale"
voce tznnula
.. Ce sont les Vleux Marsoulns' ..
He made It, feltz Marcebrus, the words and the mUSIC,
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Uruform out for Peace Day
And that he about the TIbetan temple
(happens by the way to be true,
they do carry you up on theIr shoulders) but
Bad for hIs medIcal practIce
cc Retreat)" saId Dr Wymans, .. It was marrvelous
Galhpoh
Secret Turks knew nothmg about It
Uh' Helped me to get my wounded aboard"
And that man sweat blood to put thiough that raIlway,
And what he ever got out of It)
And one day he drove down to the whorehouse
Cause all the farmers had consented
and granted the tight of way,
But the pornoboskos wdn't have It at any pnce
And saId he'd shoot the surveyors,
But he dxdn't shoot ole pop In the buckboard,
He giV rum the nght of way
And they thought they had hxm flummox'd,
Nobody'd sell any raus,
Till he went up to the north of New York state
And found some there on the ground
And he had 'em pned loose and shIpped 'em
And had 'em laId here through the forest
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CUnlzza for God's love, for remlttmg the soul of her father
- May hell take the traItors of Zeno
And :fifth begat he Albertc
And SIXth the Lady CunlZZa
In the house of the Cavalcantl
anno 12.65
Free go they all as by full manumission
All serfs of Eccehn my father da Romano
Save those who were With Albenc at Castra San Zeno
And let them go also
The devils of hell In their body
And sIxth the Lady Cumzza
That was first gIven RIchard St Bomface
And Sordello subtracted her from that husband
And lay with her In T arVlSO
TJ.I he was dnven out of Tarvlso
And she left with a soldIer named BonlUs
mmlum amorata In eum
And went from one place to another
" The lIght of thiS star o'ercame me"
Greatly enJoYIng herself
And runnIng up the most awful bdls
And trus BonlUs was killed on a sunday
and she had then a Lord from Braganza
and later a house In Verona
And he looked from the planks to heaven,
Said Juventus tt Immortal
He said tt Ten thousand years before now
Or he said tt PassIng Into the pomt of the cone
You begxn by makIng the replIca
Thus Lusty Juventus, In September,
In cool air, under sky,
Before the reSidence of the funeral dIrector
Whose daughters' conduct caused comment
But the old man dId not know how he felt
Nor cd remember what prompted the utterance
He saId tt What I know, I have known,
tt How can the knowmg cease knOWIng) "
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By the lawn of the semor elder
He continued Ius ambulatlOn
Ct Matter 1$ the lIghtest of all thmgs,
In Paphos, on a day
I also heard
goeth not with young Mars to playe
But she hath pity on a dodderIng fool,
She tendeth hIS fyre,
She keepeth hIS embers warm
ExplIcIt canto
XXX
ELEVEN NEW CANTOS
XXXI-XLI
XXXI
loquendl,
T
EMPUS
Tempus tacendl
Said Mr Jefferson It wd have given us
tIme
tt modern dress for your statue
napolls,
cc on water communIcatIon between ours and the western
Coul1try,
U partIcularly the mformation of the plam between
tc BIg Beaver and Cayohoga, whIch made me hope that a canal
naVIgatIon of Lake ErIe and the OhIo You must have had
U occaSIon of gettIng better InformatIon on thIs subject
T
HE
cc Took place In the mInds of the people"
out of hIs case, to say what tIle law In a moot case would be,
Judge Marshall IS Irregular
animal IS entIrely wIthout thought
1£ deprIved of that organ
Mr Adams to Mr Jefferson
whether In a stye, a st1ble or In a stateroom
LouIS SIxteenth was a fool
The KIng of SpaIn was a fool, the KIng of Naples a fool
they despatched two courrlers weekly to tell each other, over a
thousand mIles
what they had kIlled the KIng of SardInIa
was, lIke all the Bourbons, a fool, the
Portuguese Queen a Braganza and therefore by nature an IdIot,
The successor to FrederIC of PrussIa, a mere hog
In body and mInd, Gustavus and Joseph of AustrIa
were as you know really crazy, and George 3d was In
a straIght waistcoat,
a gUlsa de leon
The cannIbals of Europe are eatIng one another agaIn
quando 81 posa
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QUlncey Nov 13, 1815
s that despotIsm
Condorcet has let the cat out of the bag He has made preCIOUS
confessIons I regret that I have only an EnglIsh translatIon
of hIs e:t OutlIne of the HIstorIcal V lew of the Progress of
the Htlman MInd" But In pages 247, 248 and 2.49 you WIll
nnd It frankly acknowledged that the phIlosophers of the
eIghteenth century adopted all the arts of the PharIsees
was In the mInds of the people, and thIS was effected from
1760 to 1775 In the course of :fifteen years before Lex-
Ington
Bonaparte, Poor DevIl' what has and what wIll become of hIm..
Cromwell, Wat Tyler, Jack Cade, 1 e to a bad end
And WellIngton, enVIed, despIsed by all the barons, earls,.
VIscounts, a~ an upstart, a parvenue elated over theIr heads.
(Mr Adams to Thomas Jefferson)
But two thIngs I dId learn from hIm (Plato) That FranklIn's
Idea of exemptIng husbandmen and malIners etc fronl the
depredatIons of war was borrowed flom hIm
and (secondly) that SneeZ111g IS a cure for the hlCkups
And If the same small boys are merely shIfted from the spInnIng
room to the weavmg room or from one factory to another,
how can the Inspector verIfy the number of hours they
are worked'> (1849, Leonard Horner)
Case where the Jury ('62.) was to decIde whether soot adul-
terated With 90% of dust and sand was U adulterated-m-
the-legal-sense" soot or In the commercIal U real soot" As
frIends of commerce decIded (the Jury decIded) It was
t t real soot" agaInst the plaIntIff WIth costs
a
bureaucrat paisible, Van TZln Vel se montra, tout faIt Incap-
able d'assumer Ie role de chef d'une revolutIon sangwnalre
(accordIng to MonSIeur Bessedovsky)
16 3
yearly, merely In usurIOUS dIscounts
and he even
(to change the subJect)
put mto the mouths of the dIrectors of the Federal Reserve
banks the words that they should say ce: You have got more
than your share, we want you to reduce, we can not let
you have any more"
(Mr Brookhart)
page 34 of the mInutes then they adopted another resolutIon
page 42 commIttee of Interstate commerce, ask Increase
of raIlroad rates, saId to them wd suggest, gentlemen,
you be careful not to gIve out anythIng about any dIs-
CUSSIon of dIscount rates dIsturbs everybody ImmedIate
rush never diSCUSS In the newspapers
• & Company's banker was In that meetmg, and next day
he was out after a loan of 60 mIllIons, and got It SWlft-
amoursinciair but the country at large dId not know It
The meetIng deCided we were over-Inflated
XXXIV
O
beasts, grasses, petrIfactIons, bIrds, IncrustatIons,
LS'
Dr MItchell's conversatIon was varIOUS
And a black manservant, to embark on a voyage to
RUSSIa
ConsIstent WIth theIr peace and theIr separatIon from Europe
EnglIsh pretentlons, exclUSIve, auf clem Wasser (a d 1809)
En faIt de commerce ce (Bonaparte) est un etourdI," saId
Romanzoff
Freedom of admISSIon for sIups, freedom of departure, freedom
of purchase and sale
Are the only members of the corps dIplomatIque who have ani
Interest In lIterature, conversatIon
we talked of Shakespeare, MIlton, VIrgil and of the Abbe
Delille
U MonSIeur Adams H saId the Emperor, (( I1 y a cent ans que Je
ne vous al vu "
June4th 1811
The Idea occurred to me of a treaty of commerce
Told hIm hIS government wd probably make our peace
cc How' " saId the ambassador (french)
arrIved last even1ng WIth the troops that had been sent out
against hIm
whIch IS due to Bourbon mIsconduct
I told him (SIr James Mackmtosh) that I
DId not belIeve Dr FranklIn or WashIngton
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Had wanted the revolutIon He asked If any leadIng man had
I saId, my father, perhaps, S'lmuel Adams, James OtIS
OF
ARRARAT
FOUNDED BY
MORDECAI NOAH"
=
Electro-magnetIc (Morse)
---. Constans prOposlto
Justum et Tenacem
J:f 17 1
"
xxxv
O THIS IS (may we take It) Mitteleuropa
braIned n
saId the bOJars or whatever the old savages call It
as they hung theIr old huntsman frIend to hIS chandelIer
In hIS dInmg hall after the usual feastIng and flagons
VlRTUSCH" It must be one helluva country Item
That there be made a lontego (a chamber)
to lend money on cloth so that they cease not to
labour for lack of money Item that there be made a scaven-
zar"a
and It be furmshed WIth cloth thus pledged
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to be sold a schavezo at a price as If wholesale
plus only the proportIon of the tax for the retaIl so that
Mantua cloth being cheap as In countries Circun1Jace rlt .lnd that
BreSClans, Cremonesl, Parmenesl, ResaneSI
who now go to Verona where It IS cheaper as also
our own townsfolk go there, they wd then come hele or
stay here to the augment of Industry and Increase In
the retaIl tax and all of the other taAes
Item for the Increase of thIS art
shd be a man statIoned In VenIce to sell what we
can't sell here Item a dye works that they can dye
the pledged cloth and that findIng hele cloth "\Itel! coloured
In:ficlt umbras
the Romagnols wd come here to Mantua, and the March folk
who now go to Verona to buy all of whIch wd
be gaIn to thIS Industry, brIng more people to lIve here
'lnd be of great use to yr taxes
Mantua 1401, una grlda
When the stars fall from the olIve
Or wIth four pOInts or WIth five
Toward St John's eve
Came thIS day Madame VA'Yj, Madame la Porte Parure
Adorned wIth the Romancero,
foot hke a flowery branch That
Venice be luogo dz contratto may we
say the place where the deal IS made
and the profits
most assuredly from the pocket
of the last man who buys / exempt from customs
be food stuffs and nothmg else so exempted
9 per cent m, and 9 out, for the upkeep of cc The Domlnant "
and De Gama (Vasco) a great InconvenIence In fact the
worst news that there could be but
Can Portugal keep It up '>
omnes de partibus ultramarlnls
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needIng salt, made their peace wIth VenIce
cc who commands sea, commands trade U
A I speak In season
She seeks reason for an affect, wIld often
That IS so proud he hath Love for a name
Who denys It can hear the truth now
\Vherefore I speak to the present knowers
HavIng no hope that low-hearted
Can bring sight to such reason
Be there not natural demonstratIon
I have no wIll to try proof-brlngmg
Or say where It hath bIrth
What IS Its virtu and power
I ts being and every movIng
Or delIght whereby 'tIS called tt to love"
Or 1£ man can show It to sIght
Cometh he to be
when the WIll
From overplu~
TWIsteth out of natural measure,
Never adorned Wlth rest Moveth he changIng colour
EIther to laugh or weep
ContortIng the face WIth fear
resteth but a lIttle
Yet shall ye see of hun That he lS most often
WIth folk who deserve hIm
And hIS strange qualIty sets sIghs to move
Wulmg man look Into that formed trace In hIS mInd
And With such uneaSIness as rouseth the flame
Unskilled can not form hIS Image,
He hllnself moveth not, draWIng all to hIS stIllness,
NeIther turneth about to seck hIS delIght
Nor yet to seek out provIng
Be 1t so great or so small
He drawetll likeness and hue from 11.b.e patule
So making pleasure more certaIn In seemIng
N or can stand hId In such nearness,
Beautys be darts tho' not savage
SkIlled from such fear a man follows
DeserVIng spInt, that plerceth
Nor IS he known from hIS face
But taken In the whIte lIght that 15 allness
Toucheth hIS aIm
Who heareth, seeth not fornt
But IS led by Its emanatIon
BeIng divIded, set out from colour,
DISjunct In nud darkness
Grazeth the lIght, one mOVIng by other,
BeIng dIvIded, divided from all falsIty
Worthy of trust
From hIm alone mercy proceedeth
180
XXXVII
HOU shalt not," saId MartIn Van Buren, tt Jau 'em for
T debt "
tt that an Immigrant shd set out With good banknotes
181
tt1£ they vote as they are bid by theIr employers
they wJ11 vote for the property ",-hleh you so Wish to protect"
when a turnpIke depends upon congres~
local superVISIon IS lost
not surrender our conduct to foreIgn aSSOCIatIons
workIng classes
who mostly
have no control over paper, and
derIve no profit from bank stock
merchants wIll not confess ovel tradIng
nor speculators the dISPOSItion to speculate
revenue for wants of the government
to be kept under publIc control do they pour
natIonal revenue
Into banks of depOSIt
In seasons of spec.ulation ~
dmllnIsh government patronage saIlor
not to be lashed save by court land
to actual settler (as agaInst Mr Clay)
And when her father went broke, Mr Eaton gave rise to
WashIngton gOSSIp loose morals of Mr Jefferson,
SerVIlIty of MartIn Van Buren, saId Adams (J QUIncy)
when everyone else IS unCIVIl
u: No where so well depOSIted as In the pants of tIle people,
18 3
CC: years and nIne months, If the charter be not extended
C( I hesertate nawt tew say et wIll dee-preClerate
CC: everyman's prorperty from the etcetera
17 mIllion on a lIne of
64 rrulIlon credIts
replIed Mr Knower
In the 1D.lrror of memory have been told I rendered
the truth a great serVIce by that speech on the tarIff
but directness on all pOInts wd seem not
to have been Its conSpICUOUS feature
I thanked hIm
(James Jones, brother In law of Ml ClInton)
for hIS kInd offer but
saId my fortunes were too low In ebb
for me at that moment to compromIse
Lacked not who said that John Adams
dIslIked not so much the Idea of a monarch
as preferred Braintree House over Hanover
and hiS son, seeking lIght from the stars
deplored that representatives be paralyzed
by the Will of constituents
tt I publicly answered more questions
D
ESOLATE IS
Desolate IS the Iron raIl that he walked
And the corner post whence he greeted the sunnse
In hIll path U thkk, thgk"
of the loom
Ct Thgk, thkk " and the sharp sound of a song
under olIves
When I lay In the Ingle of CIrce
I heard a song of that kInd
Fat panther lay by me
GIrls talked there of fuckIng, beasts talked there of eating,
All heavy wIth sleep, fucked gIrls and fat leopards,
Lions loggy wIth CIrce's tIsane,
GIrls leery wIth CIrce's tIsane
, ,l...' ,~
Kal<a 't'app..aK EOWKElI
kaka pharmak edoken
The house of smooth stone that you can see from a distance
AVKOL OPEUTEPOL, ~OE AE01lTES
lukol oresterol ede leon tes
wolf to curry favour for food
-born to HellOS and Persels
That had Paslphae for a tWIn
Venter venustus, cunni cultrlx, of the velvet marge
vet novum, canorum, ver novum
Spring overborne Into summer
late sprIng In the leafy autumn
,,0.).,011 a.OU5La.Et
KALON AOIDIAEI
"H 8eos, ,qE 'YV1l~ c/>8E'Y'YWJ.LE8a- 8a.uuov
r theos c gune ptheggometha thasson
193
Fust honey and cheese
honey at first and then acorns
Honey at the start and then acorns
honey and wine and then acorns
Song sharp at the edge, her crotch lIke a young saplIng
illa dolore obmutult, parlter vocem
(C I am Hathor "
Che mal da me non 51 parte II dlletto
Fulvlda dl folgore
Came here wlth Glaucus unnoticed, nee IVl 111 harum
N ec In harum Ingressus sum
DISCUSS this In bed said the lady
Eune kal phtlotetl ephata Ktrkh
Euv~ 1Ca.~ q,tA6T7]".t, EcP«T4 Kl,plCTJ
es thalamon
'Ef {}a:Xap.ov
Eurtlochus, Macer, better there wIth good acorns
Than wIth a crab for an eye, and 30 fathom of fishes
Green sWish In the socket,
Under the portico Ktrke
U I thInk you must be Odysseus
Sumus In fide
Puellaeque canamus
sub nocte
there In the glade
To Flora's nIght, wIth hyaclnthus,
With the crocus (sprIng
sharp In the grass,)
FIfty and forty together
ERI MEN AI TE KUDONIAI
Betuene AprIle and Merche
With sap new In the bough
WIth plum flowers above them
With almond on the black bough
With JasmIne and olive leaf,
To the beat of the measure
From star up to the half-dark
From half-dark to half-dark
UnceaSIng the measure
Flank by flank on the headland
With the Goddess' e}es to seaward
By CIrceo, by Terraclna, WIth the stone eyes
whIte toward the sea
WIth one measure, unceasing
et Fac deum' " ct Est factus"
Ver novum'
ver novum'
Thus made the sprIng,
Can see but theIr eyes In the dark
not the bough that he walked on
195
Beaten from flesh Into lIght
Hath swallowed the fire-ball
A traverso Ie fogIle
HIS rod hath made god In my belly
SIC loquItur nupta
Cantat SIC nupta
E tt
tc
Of the same trade," SmIth, Adam,
never gather together
U men
201
XLI
M
AQVESTO,U
saId the Boss, e dlvertente "
t(
ad InterIm 1933
206
THE FIFTH DECAD
OF CANTOS
XLII-LI
XLII
E ought, I thInk, to say In CIVIl terms You be
damned'
(Palmerston, to Russell rei Chas H Adams)
t And how thIS people CAN In thls the fifth
et cetera year of the war, leave that old etcetera up
there on that monument' ' H G to E P 1918
Lex salIca' lex GermanIca, Antonmus
saId law rules at sea
•
,·1.
Chlgl, Sofficl, Marcellus de' 111urI,
no, Marcellus AustInl, Caloanes Marescottl and
Lord Mt Alban effected
that the officers of thIS MountaIn
and In tIme to come all theIr successors
shares that shall be called Loca Montls-
Have you a place on the HIll, SIr'
out of sure knowledge and
ex certe SClentIa et In plenItude of theIr powers
mVlolable for observance, so to be con1prehended
10 thousand scudl
de hbris septeno
? one scudo worth 7 lire
In respect to 200,000 (two hundred thousand)
.214
XLIII
o the serenlSSImo nno (pronounced DomIno)
(Mount of PIty)
elusdem CIvItatIs Senen
there beIng In the thIrd place
.2 thousand 3 10 there to the credIt of
The MagnIficent MagIstrates and Lords Officers
and 3756 In the same Mount
descrIbed as to credIt of citIzens
'lnd In common called money of Genova
and Most Serene M DtlX
and serenest (femInIne) tutrIces
by the saId Masters DeputIes of the BaIley
as to the best mode and oblIgations and cautlO.t1S
most ample dee-liberatIon
prayer, supplIcation as herewIth and here followIng
VIdelIcet 11hgatl
In the N arne of OmnIpotent God
and the GlorIous VIrgIn our Advocate
to the Gd Duke's honour and exaltatIon
the Most Serene, Tuscanlss1mo Nostro SIgnore
In the Lord's year 1622
Saturday fourth day of Ivlarch
at"> VIth (hour"> after sunrIse or whatever)
called together assembled In general
counell of the People of the CIty of SIena magnrficent
SymbolIc good of the Commune
and fatherland ddettlsslmo
having chief place and desIre that the
citIzens get satisfactIon (siano soddlsfattI) contentmcl1t
and be fully persuaded of
what for the common good IS here being dealt wIth
as we have already been for ten years prOjectIng thiS MONTE
for gt future benefit to the city
Worthy wIll to the chosen end
Ob pecunlae scarsltatem
S P SENENsis ac pro eo amplIsslm
Baha CollegIum CIVlces vlgiiantiae
totIUS CIvItatIS
Urban VllIth of Siena, Ferd I mag duce dO nO
fellcItatem domInante et Ferd I
Roman Emperor as elected
12.5 I of the Protocols marked also
X, I, I, F, and four arabIc
OB PECUNIAE SCARSITATEM
because there was shortage of COIn, In November
because of taxes, exchanges, tax laylngs and usurIes
legItImate consumptIon Impeded
ten thousand on the office of pasturage
to the end
four fat oxen
haVIng theIr arses wIped
and In general beIng tIdIed up to serve god under my WIndow
WIth stoles of ImperIal purple
WIth tassels, and grooms before the carrOCClO
on whIch carroch SIX lIon heads
to receIve the wax offerIng
Thus arrIve the gold eagles, the banners of the contrade,
and boxes of candles
tMn-YAWWH'" '
SZld the left front ox, suddenly,
(pnAWH' ' as they tIed on hIS red front band,
2.16
St George, two hokey-pokey stands and the unIcorn
~ NlcchIO' NICch-IO-ne'"
The kalhpygous Slenese females
get that way from the saltte
that IS from continual pluggmg up hIll
One box marked C 200 LIRE'
C laudate puerl '
Out of Syracuse
not haVIng money aboalJ
to Athens at credItors' rIsk
cut the salls, dumped 011 at an Island
btlt the S 0 man
wouldnt swallow It
Up to the quantIty of 200,000
on the whole people's credIt
for publIc and prIvate utIlIty
shares to be called Loea Montls
whIch IS to say SItes on tIle MountaIn
@ 100 scudl to gIve 5 scud] 1. year
as long as the MOUNT endure
there first was the frult of nature
there was the whole WIll of the people
serene M Dux and HIS tutrIces
and lords deputIes of the Balley, In name of OmnIpotent God
best mode etcetera, and the GlorIOUS Vlrgln
convoked and gathered together 1622
general counctl there were I 17 counCIllors
In the hall of World Map, With bells and WIth
VOIce of the Cryer (II Bandltore)
shares of Mount to yIeld five scudl on each hundred
per annUln, and to be separate from the PITY
2.18
wIth Its own magIstrates, Its own mInIsters
IlluS Balla esegulsca In tutto
RescrIpt of TThelr HHlghnesses
222
XLIV
thou shalt not, FIrenze 17 66, and thou shalt not
A
D
sequestrate for debt any farm Implement
nor any yoke ox nor
1ny peas1nt whIle he works wIth the sanle
PIetro Leopoldo
Heavy graIn crop unsold
never had the 110unt lacked for speCIe, cut rate to four and X/3rd
226
WherewIth I pray God, Madam my SIster and COUSIn,
he be pleased to have you In holy and worthy keepIng
22.8
XLV
~. ~"IIIIl""'ITH Usura
,
DldJa see the DecennIO)
<t send my son to England and have him come back a chrIstIan'
2.3.2.
« They are mendacIous, but If the trIbe gets toget11el
ce the trIbal WOl d WIll be kept, hence perpetual mlsunderstandl11g
U ten years, they belIeve hln1, then he sIgns terms for hIS
government
U and, naturally, the treaty IS broken, Mohammedans,
SemI-prIvate Inducement
SaId Mr RothSchIld, hell knows whIch Roth-schIld
1861, '64 or there sometIme, U Very few people
(C wIll understand thIS Those who do WIll be occupIed
cc gettIng profits The general publIC WIll probably not
2.35
XLVII
_ ....... IIIIll,..,·..... HO even dead, yet hath hIs mInd entIre'
ThIS sound came In the dark
FIrst must thou go the road
to hell
And to the bower of Ceres' daughter ProserpIne,
Through overhangIng dark, to see TlresIas,
Eyeless that was, a shade, that IS In hell
So full of knOWIng that the beefy men know less than he,
Ere thou come to thy road's end
Knowledge the shade of a shade,
Yet must thou saIl after knowledge
KnOWIng less than drugged beasts phtheggometha
thasson
cPfJEYY6J/-,Ef)a (JOn-crop
The small lamps drIft In the bay
And the sea's claw gathers them
Neptunus drInks after neap-tIde
Tamuz' Tamuz"
The red flame gOing seaward
By thiS gate art thou measured
From the long boats they have set lights In the water,
The sea's claw gathers them outward
Scula's dogs snarl at the clIff's base,
The whIte teeth gnaw In under the crag,
But In the pale nIght the small lamps float seaward
Tv ~£c.)va,
TU DIONA
Kat Moipa£) "A8ovI"v
Kat MOIRAI' ADONIN
The sea IS streaked red WIth AdonIS,
The lIghts flicker red In small Jars
2.3 6
Wheat shoots rIse new by the altar,
flower from the sWIft seed
Two span, two span to a woman,
Beyond that she believes not Nothing IS of any Importance
To that IS she bent, her Intentlon
To that art thou called ever turnIng Intention,
Whether by nIght the owl-call, whether by sap 1ll shoot,
Never Idle, by no means by no wdes mtermittent
Moth IS called over mounta1l1
The bull runs blind on the sword, naturans
To the cave art tbou called, Odysseus,
By Molu hast thou respite for a lIttle,
By Molu art thou freed from the one bed
that thou may'st return to another
The stars are not In her countIng,
To her they are but wanderIng holes
BegIn thy plowIng
When the PleIades go down to theIr rest,
BegIn thy plowIng
40 days are they under seabord,
Thus do In fields by seabord
And In valleys Winding down toward the sea
When the cranes fly hIgh
thInk of plowIng
By thIS gate art thou measured
Thy day IS between a door and a door
Two oxen are yoked for plowIng
Or SIX m the htl! field
WhIte bulk under olIves, a score for draWIng down stone,
Here the mules are gabled With slate on the hIll road
Thus was It In tune
And the small stars now fall from the olIve branch,
Forked shadow falls dark on the terrace
More black than the floatIng martIn
that has no care for your presence,
HIS WIng-prInt IS black on the rC''1f ttles
And the prInt IS gone WIth hIs cry
So lIght IS thy weight on TeIlus
Thy notch no deeper Indented
Thy weight less than the shadow
Yet hast thou gnawed through the mountain,
Scylla's white teeth less sharp
Hast thou found a nest softer than cunnus
01 hast thou found better rest
Hast'ou a deeper plantIng, doth thy death year
BrIng sWlfter shoot 7"
Hast thou entered more deeply the mountaIn ')
K ElM E N RAN K E I
KIU MAN MAN K E I
JITSU GETS U K 0 KWA
TAN FUKU TAN K A I
S
H:::~e mmd of heaven God
who made It
more than the sun
In our eye
FIfth element, mud, saId Napoleon
WIth usury has no man a good house
made of stone, no paradIse on hIS ehurch wall
WIth usury the stone cutter 15 kept from hIS stolle
the weavel IS kept from hIS loom by usura
Wool does not come Into market
the peasant does not e1t hIS own graIn
the gIrl's needle goes blunt In her hand
The looms are hushed one after another
ten thousand after ten tholls'lnd
DUCCIO was not by usura
Nor was (La CalunnIa) paInted
NeIther AmbrogIo Praedls nor AngelIco
had theIr sktil by usura
Nor St Trophlme Its clOIsters,
Nor St HIlaIre Its proportIon
Usury rusts the man and hiS chIsel
It destroys the craftsman, destrOyIng craft,
Azure IS caugllt wIth cancer Emerald comes to no Memhng
Usury kIlls the chIld In the womb
And breaks short the young man's courtmg
Usury brIngs age lnto youth, It lles between the brlde
and the brIdegroom
Usury IS agaInst Nature's Increase
Whores for Eleusls,
Under usury no stone IS cut smooth
25°
Peasant has no gain from hIs sheep herd
Blue dun) number .2 In most rIvers
for dark days, when It IS cold
A starlIng's wIng wJ.11 give you the colour
or duck wIdgeon, If you take feather from under the wIng
Let the body be of blue fox fur, or a water rat's
or grey squirrel's Take thIs with a portIon of mohaIr
and a cock's hackle for legs
12th of March to 2nd of Aprd
Hen pheas'lnt's feather does for a fly,
green tad, the wings flat on the body
Dark fur from a hare's ear for a body
a green shaded partrIdge feather
grIzzled yellow cock's hackle
green wax, harI from a peacock's tall
brIght lower body, about the SIze of pm
the head should be can be fished from seven a m
till eleven, at whIch tlIl1e the brown marsh fly comes on
As long as the brown contInues, no fish wlll take Granham
LII LI KI 257
LX Jesuits
LXI Yong Tchlng (Chi tsong hlen Hoang TI) 172.3 334
Kten Long 173 6
In the text names of Emperors and of DynastIes are In CAPS
Note the final hnes m greek, Canto 71, are from Hymn of
Cleanthes, part of Adams' pazdeuma GloriOUS, deathless of
many names, Zeus aye ruling all things, founder of the Inborn
qualitIes of nature, by laws pJ.1otIng all thmgs
Other foreign words and Ideograms both In these two decads
and In earher cantos enforce the text but seldom 1£ ever add
anythmg not stated m the english, though not always In lines
munedlately contiguous to these underhnmgs
LII
DI have told you of how thmgs were under Duke
A
with the whole folk behind It
Leopold In SIena
And of the true base of credIt, that IS
the abundance of nature
257
governments full of their gun-swIne, bankbuzzards, popplnJays
DId commIt, that he dId In the KIngdom of Italy
of the two usurIes, the lesser 15 now put down
that he dId In the Kmgdom of BrItaIn etc/
Between KUNG and ELEUSIS
Under the Golden Roof, la Dorata
her baldacchlno
RICCIO on hIS horse rides still to Montepulclano
the groggy church 15 gone toothless
No longer holds agaInst 1zcschek
the fat has covered their croZIers
The high fans and the mitre mean nothIng
Once only In Burgos, once In Cortona
was the song firm and well given
old buffers keepmg the stIffness,
Gregory damned, always was damned, obscurantIst
Know then
Toward summer when the sun IS In Hyades
Sovran IS Lord of the FIre
to thIS month are bIrds
WIth bItter smell and WIth the odour of burnIng
To the hearth god, lungs of the VIctIm
The green frog lIfts up hIS VOIce
and the whIte latex IS In flower
In red car WIth Jewels mcarnadlne
to welcome the summer
In thIS month no destructIon
no tree shall be cut at thIS time
Wild beasts are drIven from field
In thIS month are SImples gathered
The empress offers cocoons to the Son of Heaven
Then goes the sun Into GemInI
Vago In mId heaven at sunset
IndIgo must not be cut
No wood burnt Into charcoal
2.58
gates are all open, no tax on the booths
Now mares go to graZIng,
tIe up the stallIons
Post up the horsebreedIng notIces
Month of the longest days
LIfe and death are now equal
StrIfe IS between lIght and darkness
WIse man stays In hIS house
Stag droppeth antlers
Grasshopper IS loud,
leave no fire open to southward
Now the sun enters Hydra, thIS IS the thIrd moon of summer
Antares of ScorpIo stands mId heaven at sunset
Andromeda IS WIth sunrIse
Lord of the fire IS dommant
To thIS month IS SEVEN,
WIth bItter smell, WIth odour of burnIng
Offer to gods of tIle hearth
the lungs of the VIctunS
Warm WInd IS rISIng, crIcket bideth In wall
Young goshawk IS learnIng hIS labour
dead grass breedeth glow-worms
In Mmg T'ang HE bldeth
In the west WIng of that house
Red car and the sorrel horses
hIS banner Incarnadme
The :fish ward now goes agaInst crocodIles
To take all great lIzards, turtles, for dIVInation,
sea terrapIn
The lake warden to gather rushes
to take grain for the manes
to take gram for the beasts you wtll sacrIfice
to the Lords of the MountaIns
To the Lords of great rIvers
Inspector of dye-works, Inspector of colour and brolderles
2.59
see that the white, black, green be In order
let no false colour eXIst here
black, yellow, green be of qualIty
ThIS month are trees In full sap
RaIn has now drenched all the earth
dead weeds enrIch It, as If bOll'd In a bouIllon
Sweet savour, the heart of the VictIm
yellow flag over Emperor's charlot
yellow stones In hIS gIrdle
SagittarIUS In mId-course at sunset
cold wind IS begInnIng Dew whItens
Now IS cIcada's tIme,
the sparrow hawk offers bIrds to the SpIrIts
Emperor goes out In war car, he IS drawn by whIte horses,
whIte banner, whIte stones 10 hIS gIrdle
eats dog and the dIsh IS deep
ThIS month 15 the reIgn of Autumn
Heaven 18 actIve In metals, now gather mIllet
and finIsh the flood-walls
OrIon at sunrIse
Horses now WIth black manes
Eat dog meat ThIS IS the month of ramparts
Beans are the trIbute, September 15 end of thunder
The hibernants go mto theIr caves
Tolls lowered, now sparrows, they say, turn Into oysters
The wolf now offers hiS sacrIfice
Men hunt WIth five weapons,
They cut wood for charcoal
New rice With your dog meat
First month of WInter 18 now
sun 18 In ScorpIo's tall
at sunrIse In Hydra, Ice startIng
The pheasant plunges Into Houal (great water)
and turns to an oyster
Rambow 18 hidden awhile
260
Heaven's Son feeds on roast pork and mIllet,
Steel gray are stalhon
ThIs month Winter ruleth
The sun IS In archer's shoulder
In crow's head at sunrIse
Ice thIckens Earth cracks And the tIgers now move to matlllg
Cut trees at solstIce, and arrow shafts of bamboo
ThIrd month, wIld geese go north,
magpIe starts bUIldIng,
Pheasant llfteth hIS VOIce to the SpIrIt of MountaIns
The fishIng season IS open,
rIvers and lakes frozen deep
Put now Ice In your Ice-house,
the great concert of wmds
Call thIngs by the names Good sovereign by dIstrIbutIon
EVIl kIng IS known by hIs Imposts
Begm where you are saId Lord Palmerston
began draInIng swamps In SlIgo
Fought smoke nUisance In London Dredged harbour In SlIgo
2.61
LIII
taught men to break branches
Y
EOU
Seu GIn set up the stage and taught barter,
taught the knottIng of cords
Fou HI taught men to grow barley
2837 ante Chrlstum
and they know stIll where hIs tomb IS
by the hIgh cypress between the strong walls
the FIVE grams, saId ChIn Nong, that are
wheat, rIce, mIllet, gros hle and chick peas
and made a plough that IS used five thousand years
Moved his court then to Kio-feou-hien
held market at mid-day
C bring what we have not here', wrote an herbal
YAO
CHUN
YU
KAO-YAO
abundance
Then an Empress fled wIth Chao !(ang In her belly
Fou-hl by vIrtue of wood,
ChIn-nang, of fire, Hoang Tl ruled by the earth,
Chan by metal
Tchuen was lord, as IS water
CHUN, govern
YU, cultIvate,
The surface IS not enough,
from Chang TI nothIng IS hIdden
For years no waters came, no raIn fell
for the Emperor TchIng Tang
graIn scarce, prIces rIsIng
SO that In 1760 Tchlng Tang opened the copper mIne (ante
Christum)
made dISCS wIth square holes In theIr mIddles
and gave these to the people
wherewith they mIght buy graIn
where there was graIn
The StlOS were emptIed
7 years of stertllty
der un Baluba das Gewltter gemacht hat
Tchlng prayed on the mountaIn and
wrote MAKE IT NEW
on hIs bath tub
Day by day make It new
cut underbrush,
pIle the logs
}{eep It growmg
DIed Tching aged years an hundred,
In the 13th of hIs reIgn
C We are up, HI3 IS down'
HSla
Chou
Deathless his honour that saw hIS folk uSIng theIr substance
The end of your house IS upon us '
860 Youl-leang-fou, In memorIal
SaId Chao-kong Talk of the people
IS hk.e the hIlls and the streams
Thence comes our abundance
To be Lord to the four seas of ChIna
a man must let men make verses
he must let people play comedIes
and hIstorIans wrIte down the facts
he must let the poor speak evtl of taxes
Interregnum of Cong-ho Sluen went agaInst the west tartars
HIS praise lasts to thiS day Sluen-ouang contra barbaros
legat belli ducem Chaoumoukong,
Hoatland, fed by Hoal river
dark mIllet, T chang WIne for the sacrIfice
Juxta fluvlum Hoal aCles ordlnatur nee mora
SWift men as 1£ flyers, II!te Yangtse
Strong as the Yangtse,
they stand rooted as mountams
they move as a torrent of waters
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Emperor not rash In counctl agIt consIderate
HAN founded the town of Y uel
and taught men to sow the five grams
In the 4th year of Sluen,
Sle was founded
and there were four years of dry summer
RITE IS
Nine days before the first moon of sprIng tIme,
that he fast And wIth gold cup of wheat-WIne
that he go afield to sprmg ploughIng
that he plough one and three quarters furrows
and eat beef when thIS rIte IS finIshed,
so did not Sluen
that after famIne, called back the people
where are reeds to weave, where are pine trees
Sluen establIshed thiS people hac loea flUVIUS allult
He heard the Wild geese cryIng sorrow
Campestrlbus Iocis
here have we fixed our dwellIng
after our sorrow,
our grandsons shall have our estate
The Lady Paa Sse brought earthquakes TCHEOU falleth,
folly, folly, false fires no true alarm
Mount KI-chan IS broken
Kl-chan IS crumbled m the loth moon of the 6th year of
Yeou Quang
Sun darkened, the rIvers were frozen
and at thiS time was T~ln rISIng, a marqUIS on the
Tartar border
EmpIre down In the rIse of prmces
T~ln drave the tartar, lands of the emperor Idle
Tcheou tombs fallen In rum
from that year was no order
No man was under another
9 Teheau wd/ not stand together
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were not rods In a bundle
Sky dark, cloudless and starless
at mIdnIght a raIn of stars
Wars,
wars wIthout Interest
boredom of an hundred years' wars
And In Slang, the prInces ImpatIent
kIlled a bad kIng for a good one, and thus Ouen Kong
came to theIr rule In Sung land
and they said Slang had been killed when huntmg
Ouen cherIshed the people
States of Lou were unhappy
TheIr RIchards pOIsoned young prInces
All bloods, murders, all treasons
Sons of the first wIfe of Ouen Kong
LIng Kong loved to shoot from the hedges
you'd see hIm behInd a wall WIth hIs arrows
For fun. of WIngIng pedestrIans
thIS prInce lIked eatIng bears' paws
By the NIne Urns of Yu, KIng Kong
made an allIance at hearIng the sound of Tcheou mUSIC
ThIs was the year of the two eclIpses
And Cheou-lang that held up the portcullIs
was named t hIllock' because of a lump on hIS head
Man of Sung, and hIS lIne of Lou land Chung ~
and hIS second son was Kung-fu-tseu ,.
Taught and the not taught Kung and EleusIs
to catechumen alone
And when Kung was poor, a superVIsor of vIctuals~
Plen's report boosted hun NI '.1
so that he was made superVIsor of cattle
In that tIme were banquets as usual, Kung was Inspector of
markets
And that year was a comet In Seol pIa
and by nIght they fought In the boats on Klang rIver
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And KIng Wang thought to vary the currency
j.tETOlJEj.tElICJJ'V TE TW'V XPW/JElIWlI
agamst councIl's opInIon,
and to gaIn by thIs wangll11g
Honour to Fen-yang who resIsted InjUstIce
And King Kong saId t That Idea IS good doctrIne'
But I am too old to start uSing It
Never were so many eclIpses
Then Kungfutseu was made minIster and moved promptly
agaInst C T Mao
and had hIm beheaded
that was false and crafty of heart
a tough tongue that flowed WIth deceit
A man who remembered eVll and was complacent m dOIng It
LOU rose TSI sent girls to destroy It
Kungfutseu retired
At T ching someone saId
there IS man WIth Yao's forehead
Cao's neck and the shoulders of Tse TchIn
A man tall as Yu, and he wanders about In front of the
East gate
lIke a dog that has lost hIS owner
Wrong, saId ConfUCIUS, m what he says of those Emperors
but as to the lost dog, qUIte correct
He was seven days foodless In TchIn
the rest SIck and Kung makIng mUSIC
t sang even more than was usual '
Chou
LIV
that Tien-tan chose bulls, a thousand
S
O
and covered them wIth great leather masks, makIng
dragons
and bound pOignards to theIr horns
and tIed torches, pItch-smeared, to theIr taIls
and loosed them by nIght from ten pOInts
on the camp of Kl-kle the beSIeger
lIghtIng the torches
So dIed KI-kuS and that town (Tsie-me) was delIvered be 279
For three hundred years, four hundred, nothIng qUIet,
WALL rose In the tIme of TSIN CHI
TCHEOU lasted eIght centurIes and then TSIN came
and of TSIN was CHI HOANG TI that unIted all ChIna
who referred to hImself as the surplus
or needless bIt of the EmpIre
and Jacked up astronomy
and after 33 years burnt the books
because of fool lItteratI be 21 J
by counsel of LI-sse
save medIcIne and on field works
and HAN was after 43 years of TSIN dynasty
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keep the land under culture
by WIse cIrculatIon Bread IS the base of subsIstence'
SIn,
HIA'S fortune was m good mInIsters
The hIghbrows are full of themselves
learned, gay and Irrelevant
on such base nothIng stands
HAN OU was for huntm', huntln' tIgers, bears, leopards
They saId you outrIde all yrl huntsmen
no one else has such good horses
The prInce of Hoal-nan took to lIght readIng
PrInce of Ho-kien preferred hIstorIes, Chu Ktng
and the Tcheozt-lt and the Lf,-kf, of MenClUS (Mong-tse)
and the Cht-lung or Odes of Mao-chi and the T chun-tszou
wIth the comment of Tso-kleou-mm
and the LI-YO wIth treatise on mUSIC
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HAN TCHAO TI opened the glanarles
HAN SIEUN (or SIUN) Was fed up wIth hIghbrows
Preferred men who knew people's habIts
C WrIters are full of their own unportance'
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t Thought 15 to body as IS Its edge to a sword'
al C Wheat IS by sweat of the people'
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LLETS' blgliettl, as COIn was too heavy for transport,
And In the 8th moon the publIc works and corvee department
presented GIN TSONG a volume on mulberry culture
by MIao Haoklen where he explains m detaIl the
grOWIng of sIlk worms
and of unwIndIng cocoons
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and the Emperor had this engraved wIth all dIagrams
and distributed throughout all China
nor had any emperor more care to :find men of merIt-
dOIng what KUBLAI had Intended-
IlJ than had Alullpata called GIN TSONG
1312/20 (AlgIaptou khan) honourIng Kung wIth the rites
And his son dIed of assasSins
died of the gang of T lemoutIer, lamas, foes,
shIt and religIon always stInking In concord
Came Jason agamst these assaSSInS
came CHUNTI last of the mogul
Two mIllion families went down In famine
blood rained on the high land
green hair came down lIke rain
HanJong levelled the temples
hIS folk burst mto JOy
to put land back under tillage
CHUNTI came to the college, as had not In 1.1 years of reIgn
gave a SlIver seal to Kung's eplgon
but gangsters continued
a pU"ate declIned to turn mandarIn,
a comet exploded In Pleiades
Hoang-ho shIfted Its bed
and they said that the Mile Buddha
had come down to turn out the mogul,
pseudo-Sung put on red hats
Tlenouan beat the rebels, Talpou was killed by rebels
Slngkl respected
and the lamas put on a ballet for CHUNTI
In Ivory headgear
castagnettes crmkhng and clackIng, and a Tang dance
Without fancy clothes
Kongpel saId to Toto Don't open dIspatches
Dragon barge drIfted WIth musIc
Statue poured water amldshlp
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SpIrIts struck the nIght watches
they say CHUNTI Invented thIs clockwork
The Red Caps called theIr candIdate Mmg Ouan
as If emperor
Left monkhood and put manhood on
to end the lme of GhengIz khan
Yuentchang ceased bemg hochang
took Ito Yen wIthout pIllage
and passed over Klang rIver
conquered the TalpIng prOVInce
Comet m Tchang star, over Tal Mlng shone the meteor
broom-shaped
Mmg commg out of South Country, In 35 years' dIssolution
CHUNTI ceased from the throne
DIed YukiOU of more than ten wounds
Now m Chang-tou was rUIn
the hIgh house of KUBLAI cast down
Came MIng slowly, a thousand, an hundred thousand
the pIrate Kouetchln came to hun
At court, eunuchs and grafters
among mongols no man trusted other
The empress' folk In Corea kIlled off kmg Peyen
Of MING were now 2.00,000
that fought three days In the boat fight
there by lake Peyan
to Hoang Ho the rIver
YeougIn and the Tchlng brothers
ttll Leou Lean was arrowed
And they left Tchln-II hIS father's treasure
but took hIS graIn for the people
Came MING thus to K.1anKlng, say 1368
For crnne after TIMOUR the mandate
left YUEN mongols
No slouch ever founded a dynasty
From Ghenglz were 8 score years until MING time
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SaId now YUENTCHANG
SUIS fils d'un pauvre labourelLt
In a vIllage of Ssetcheou In the provmce of Klangnan
at seventeen was made shavelIng
then enrolled under Tsehing the captain
ThIS IS called DestIny
Schlcksal to brIng peace to the EmpIre
Ll, Su, Tong and I
were four musketeers
We were workmen m the same VIllage
we were plam sOJers together
If we can take Chantong prOVInce, we can take PekIn
(and dId so, 1368)
He saId to Su T a Do as you deem
CHANG, CHOU, and HAN rose by talents
Once we four were lucky to have even canvas coats
Mongols are fallen
from lOSIng the law of Chung NI
(ConfucIus)
HAN came from the people
How many fathers and husbands are fallen
Make census
GIve rIce to their famlhes
Give them money for rItes
Let rich folk keep thetr goods by them
Let the poor be provided
I came not agamst YUEN
but agaInst grafters and rebels
I rebelled not agaInst KUBLAI, not agaInst Ghenglzkhan
but against lIce that ate theIr descendants
TAl TSONG
KAO TSEU
TAl TSOU
and now HONG YOU three hundred, three hundred
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each had 300 years by the mandate
five cycles of 60 years
Mongols were an Interval
YAO
- -J::
/C
SHUN
HAN
TeHEU
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D when KtEN QUEN was throned
And 00 t'other side was the question of horse fairs, and tartars
of whom were N utche or savage,
these traded at Kalyuen
and the other great hordes, Pe and Nan-koan
that were beyond the great wall fighting each other
and the N utche gave refuge to mongols
when the mongrels were drIven from ChIna by MING lords
and they were so poor they were dnven to peddlIng
ginseng, beaver pelts horse haIr
and fur of martes zibbelloe
seven such hordes unIted, and clrave MING before them
But N utche of N ankoen, nrst fought the wIld N utche
In the 4th year of Suen Te
They stopped paymg trIbute 1430 or thereabouts
and a dIplomat saId to the Tartars
You have lost yrl market for gInseng
you have lost horse faIrs
by fightIng each other
And on t'other SIde, was U ndertree makIng war m Korea
and Pere RICCI brought a clock to the Emperor
that was set In a tower
And Ku Tchang wasn't safe, even burled,
Court ladles m cabal, gangsters set to defame him
ttll hIS son hanged hnnself from the worry
3I 7
And the eunuchs of TIentsin brought Pere MatllIeu to court
where the RItes answered
Europe has no bonds wIth our empIre
and never receIves our law
As to these Images, pIctures of god above and a vIrgIn
they have lIttle mtrInSlC worth Do gods rIse boneless to heaven
that we shd/ belIeve your bag of theIr bones)
The Han Yu trIbunal therefore consIders It useless
to brIng such noveltIes Into tIle PALACE,
we consIder It 111 adVIsed, and are contrary
to receIvIng eIther these bones or pere MathIeu
The emperor CHIN TSONG receIved hun
S (Gahleo's, an heretIc's)
mUSIC and physIcs from Europe,
GrImaldI, Intorcetta, Verblest,
Koupehn Subject of yr/ Majesty,
prescnbed of the trIbune of rItes
True that the Europeans have passed zealously many dangers
and have brought us astronomy, and founded Cannon
whIch have served us In CIVIl wars,
and that one shd/ reward theIr serVIces In negotIatIng WIth
the ORoslans
They have not made any trouble
We permIt lamas, hochangs and taotses to go to
theIr churches
It wdj seem unwarranted to forbid only these Europeans
to go to theIr temples We deem therefore
that they be so permItted
mdiscrunmate to pray and burn perfumes
3rd day 2nd moon of the 3 Ist year of liANG HI
17 grandees of the EmpIre, whereof eleven cabInet mInIsters
of thiS EMPEROR
Les peres GerbllIon, Fourteres, Bournat
took qUInIne to the palace, anno domIni 1693
Hence the JeSUIt church In Pek.1n In the Hoang Tchang
that IS the palace enclosure
And Feyenkop£ In the Kaldan war
was fightIng Eleutes and Mohamedans and the
Emperor shot S1X quaIl de suzte WIth SIX arrows
and sent the Crown PrInce an Eleute horse
saymg I don't know that chInese beal1 fodder WIll SUIt hIm
HerewIth some Kalkas sheep for prIme mutton
yr affectIonate father KANG HI
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Hoang Ho IS frozen In fact the Ortes country seems to be
pretty much as we thought It In PekIn,
small hunan' qUIte pleasant, a lot of pheasants and hares
pasturage excellent Hoang Ho fruz 112. a ft thIck
Ortes very orderly, have lost none of thelr mongol habits,
theIr prmces In concord, no usury
Clever especially In lookIn' after their anImals,
clumsy bowmen, but hIt theIr mark
And General Feyenkopf wrote hIm
that the Eleutes had caved In
and KANG HI gave a fur cap to the envoy
and hiS (KANG HI'S) horse sweat pInk
as In legend the horses of Taouen land, the
Tien ma, or horses of heaven
and thiS horse m partIcular had been taken In the battle of
Tchaomed
and they had a grand show In Pekin for next new year's
Mongols, Kaldans and Eleutes
C It IS easy after thIS to be sure
that all lamas are traItors
Keep these prIsoners In separate rooms,
sold to the TIpa who IS a liar I have taken
the sun 3 80 34'
I e one degree 2.0 less here than m PekIn '
KANG HI
Dogs bark only at strangers And at Pa1chen
KANG m was pleased wIth the pasture land,
delayed hIS return to the capItal,
stayed stag-huntmg outsIde the great wall
whue Kalda had grabbed Samarkand and
Bokara for the mohammeds
16 99 peace year In all Tartary
GrImaldi, PereIra, Tony Thomas and GerbI110n
sent In theIr placet SIC
European htteratl
having heard that the ChInese rItes honour Kung-£u-tseu
and offer sacrIfice to the Heaven etcJ
and that theIr ceremonIes are grounded In reason
now beg to know theIr true meaning and In partIcular
the meanIng of terms for example MaterIal
Heaven and Changtl meanIng' Its ruler";)
Does the manes of ConfucIus
accept the grain, fruIt, stlk, Incense offered
and does he enter hIs cartouche">
The European church wallahs wonder 1£ thl~ can be reconcued
And the archblsh of AntIoch spent a year In Canton
mousmg round but not comIng to PekIn
but was, next year, permItted,
MonseIgneur Maillard de T ournon
from C!enlens, papa (Number XI) the Klao Hoang
and the Portagoose kIng sent an envoy
and they cured I(ANG HI WIth wine from the CanarIes
w'lch putt 'em up a Jot hIgher
And too much rIce went to BatavIa
so our lord KANG layed an embargo
(a bIt before Tommy Juffusun)s)
and a tsong-plng or second class mandarIn
putt up a petItIon
AGAINST Europes and Xtlanlty
That there had been nIne red boats Into Macao
Dutchmen, red-heads or Englanders
Japan, sez Tchmg mao, IS the only conSIderable kingdom
to east of us
and Japan kept peace even all through the great Mlng rebelhon
Slam and TonkIn pay trIbute,
only danger to us IS from these Europeans
by Hong-mao I mean any nordIC barbarIan
there are Yenkell and Yntsa (meanm' froggtes)
and Holans
all equally barbarous
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I have knocked around at sea for some years
and the Dutch are the worst of the lot of them,
porlik tlgurs,
theIr vessels stand any Wind and Calty a hundred cannon
1£ ten of 'em get Into Canton
who knows what cd/ happen
I thInk we shdj stop thIs danger at source
or at least make 'em dIsarm before comIng Into our harbours
or have 'em come In one at a tIme
or unlade In a fortress
They wormed mto Japan VIa ManIlla they have been
kIcked out but stIll try to get In agam
They spend money, gather the dregs of the people, make maps
I don't know what they are up to
and that's not my prOVInce
All I know IS they refuged In ManIlla
And now they are top dog In ManIlla
I rest my case In the trIbunals of En1plre
trustIng that thIs bmd-weed wIll not be permItted
to root In and fortIfy
Humbly to yr MAJESTY
Tching Mao, a sea captam
Dug up edIct of '69
PERMIT only Verblest and hIS colleagues
We vote to pardon all converts
provIded they pull down theIr churches, and agaIn May eleventh
MISSIONARIES have well served In reformIng our
mathematiCs
and In making us cannon
and they are therefore permItted to stay
and to practIce theIr own relIgIon but
no chInese IS to get converted
and they are not to bUIld any churches
47 europeans have permIts
they may contmue theIr cult, and no others
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Jesuits appealed that they be not
confounded lVlth I>utchr.nen
Let stay, If wd/ promise never see Europe again
vanous churches were levelled and
there came an embassy from PETER of Russia
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with cavalcade and drawn sabres
and a new bloke from the KIao-hoang of Roma
TIbet was brought under and '22. was a peace year
The Emp'r'r went huntIn' as usual
and tIger huntIn' In Haltse and dIed the 20th of thl~ month
at 8 m the evenIng
C no DYNASTY has come In WIth such JustIce
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ONGTCHING
Y
heaven
hIS fourth son, to honour hIs forebears
and SpIrIts of fields
of earth
utIlIty publIC
sought good of the people, actIve, absolute, loved
No death sentence save a man were thrIce tned
and he putt out XtIanIty
chinese found It so Immoral
hIs mandarIns found thIs sect so l1llmoral
It The head of a sect' runs the law t who deceIves folk
at your convenIence
C To comfort the soul of my father
Died 1735 at 58
m the 13th year of hiS reign
Came KIEN, 40 years before t our revolution'
YONG TCHING unregretted by canagha and nitWIts
t A man's happiness depends on hImself,
JrlM
(the Happiness Ideogram) that I sent you
Thus Tchlng whom Coupetal had brought up,
33 8
for the nun1ber of bye-laws
for IllS attentIon to detaIl
unregretted by scoundrels
never had death sentences such attentIon
three trIals, publIcatIon of detaIls, examInatIon,
to poorest as for the hIghest
CAl TSONG HIEN HOANG TI be he credIted
so his son Klen Long came to the throne
In the 36th of that century-
and as to the rIse of the Adamses-
ExtensIve Mohamedan treasures
C QuestIon of COIn In these conquered towns IS very unportant
I adVISe a few of YOUR mIntage
and to leave the old pIeces current
Those used llere,
Raskat, yerquI and baize11-
are of bronze weIghIng about I/5th of one of our ounces
50 of these mahometan malt.e a tC1tke
dISCS
about one of our taels
There are some useless old cannon here
whIch I suggest we melt up for small cash
to keep commerce movIng'
Tchao-hou
to hIS EMPEROR
from the camp before Hashan
(or Kasgar, a CIty In lIttle Boucarla)
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CqUlt of eVtl 'tntentzon
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LXIII
OWARDS sendIng of Ellsworth
of technIcal terms
352.
as of Hawkins' Pleas of the Crown Bracton,
Bntten, Fleta on GlanvIlle, must dIg wIth my fingers
as nobody wul lend me or sell me a pIck axe
Exercises my lungs, reVIves my SpIrIts opens my pores
readIng Tully on Catahne qUIckens my cIrculatIon
Ruggles grandeur In boldness of thought honour contempt
of meanness
was practIsIng law and runnIng a tavern In SandwIch
dIed Novascotla 1788 and a tory
Read one book an hour
then dIne, smoke, cut wood
tn quella parte
dove sta mem01a, Colonel Chandler not conSCIOUS
these crude thoughts and expressions
are catched up and treasured as proof of hIS character
Not findmg them (Rhine grapes slIps) In that CIty
sends to a village 70 miles away
and then sends two packets
one by water and lest that mIscarry, the other by post
to Mr QUIncy to whom he owes nothIng
and wIth whom he IS but lIttle acquaInted
purely for the purpose of
propagatIng RhIne WIne In these prOVInces
(one up to FranklIn) I
read TImon of Athens, the manhater
must be (IRA must be) aroused ere the mInd be
at Its best
la qual manda juoea
dIrty and rIdIculous ht.tgatlons been multIplIed
proverb, as lItIgIOUS as BraIntree
fraud and systen1 of bIgotry
on whIch papal usurpatIons are founded, monument of prIestly
ambItIon
gUIle wrought Into system
4: Our constItution' t every m'ln hIS o~rn monarcl1 '
353
all these boastIng speeches have heard (1760)
and never faIled to raIse a hoarse laugh
An InferIor officer In Salem
whose name was Coclle petitIoned
the JustIces for a WfIt of ASSIstance
to break open shIps, shops, cellars and houses
Mr Sewall expressed doubt of legalIty,
OxenbrIdge Thayer wIth OtIS,
a contest appeared to be opened
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o John's bro, the sherIff, we lay a kInd word In passmg
In prISon
wants counCIl and can get none, Mr QUIncy
WIll serve 1£ you WIll
Mr Auchmuty dechnes unless you wtll engage'
C But he must be senSIble that thIS wd/ be as Important a case
C and from here to Cape Cod you won't find ten men amiss'
very large
A statue of H M (HIs Majesty)
on horseback
sohd lead glIded with gold
on an hIgh marble pedestal
We then walked up Broadway
magnIficent bUlldmg, cost 2.0,000 pounds
NY currency
ShIp
of 800 tons burden lest levelIng spmt of New England
should propagate Itself In New York.
whole charge of the PrOVInce
between 5 and 6 thousand pounds N York money
For Massachusetts about 12. thousand lawful
as wdj equal about 16,000 of N York
AdvIsed hIm to publIsh
from Hakluyt the voyage of J Cabot,
Hudlbras
tavern, PrInceton, sing as badly as the presbyterIans of
N York
scz congress sIld/ raise money and
employ men to wrIte In the newspapers (In England)
WashIngton would raIse one thousand men
at hIS own expense
and march for release of Boston
not a VIrgInIan
but an American PatrIck Henry
tenants In capIte, Galloway well aware that my arguments
36 3
tend to the Independency of the colonles
bound by no laws made by ParlIament
SInce our ancestors came here
Bill of RIghts
wIshed to hear In Congress at large
law of natr/ BrIt constItutIon
trade of EmpIre cd/ be under parlIament
Mr Rutledge of S CarolIna saId
II: Adams,
saId Mr Zubly
2ndly arms and munItions
3rd1y that we must have money
We must keep up the notIon that thIs paper IS good
for sometlling (commerciabill ~ )
MISSISSIPPi scheme In France
South Seas In England
were wrIt for our learnIng
A navy' Can we have one~ WIthout trade)
Can we maIntaIn war WIthout It')
Can we get InformatIon~
SpanIards too lazy to come here for goods
To trade WIth England or forelgners~
If so, who does the carrying") They to us, we to them')
I speak from prIncIple, It has been said we aSSOcIate
In terrorem
Damn well rIght, Mr Zubly
Deane wdj have traders prohIbIted unporting unnecessary
and export of all lIvestock save horses
GU1daloupe, MartInIque WIll supply powder agaInst tobacco
each colony shd/ carry thiS trade, not IndIVIduals
Chase Oct 2.0 1775
Jay says more from mdlvldual enterprIse
than from lukewarmness of assemblIes
want french woollens dutch worsteds
german steel
Wythe says better open our trade altogether
Why shdn't AmerIca have a navy~ We abound In firs, Iron ore,
tar
the Rom3ns suddenly bUIlt one agaInst Carthage
RESOLVED that tV/O vessels be ~tted
6th AprJ1 to remove all restrIctIons on tlade
obhge BrItaIn to keep up a navy
that WIll cost her tWIce what she takes from us
FAECE Romull non PlatoDls republIca'
C AmerIca' (Wythe) WIll hardly lIve wIthout trade
from Massachusetts
t dependent on popularIty' So prompt farr and explICIt
379
LXVI
not let us brIng theIr sugar to Europe
C
OULD
wd/ lessen the number of French and of SpanIsh
seamen
Generally rode tWIce a day tIll made master
of thIs curIOUS forest (BOIS de Boulogne)
VIew of Issy and the castle of Meudon
game IS not very plentIful DIned at Amlens
put up at AbbevIlle Dover VIew Mr Johnson
Gt Tower Hul who mforms me
that a vessel wIth one thousand hogshead of tobacco
IS passed by In the Channel from Congress
to Messrs W 1ll1ncks 2. 7 Oct ' 83
Hague June 2.2, '84
So there IS no drop not AmerIcan In me
Aye we have notIced that saId the Ambassador
Sends to Morocco no marIne stores
sends 'em glaces and other thIngs of rIch value
SaId Lord Carmathen wd/ present me
but that I shd/ do busmess wIth Mr PItt very often
Posts not surlendered
are Presq'lsle, Sandusky etc/ DetrOIt MlchllImakinac
St Joseph St Mary's
daughter marrIed less prudently
and they were thInkIng of sendIng her to AmerIca
Presented
Mr HamIlton to the Queen at the draWing room
Ml Jefferson
and I went m a post chaIse
Woburn Farm, Stowe, Stratford
Stourbrldge, Woodstock, HIgh Wycombe and back to
Grosvenor Sq
A national debt of
.2.74 mIllIon stg/
_0_
accumulated by Jobs contracts salarIes pensIons 1n
the course of a century
mIght easuy produce all thIs magnIficence
Pope's pavIlIon and Thompson's seat made the excurSIon
poetic
Shenstone's the most rural of all
19th, Wednesday, annIversary of the battle of LexIngton
and of my receptIon In Holland
whIch latter IS considered of no unportance
to VIew the seat of the banker ChIld
three houses, In fact, round a square
blOWIng roses, rIpe strawberrIes plums cherrIes etc
deer sheep wood-doves gumea-hens peacocks etc
Dr Grey speaks very lightly of Buffon
Mr H prefers the archItecture of thIS house because It
remInds hIm of Palladlo
wmdows With mahogany columns
there are two stoves but at neither of them
could a student be comfortable In cold weather
July 18th, yesterday, moved all the grass In Stony HIll neld
thiS day my new barn was raIsed
theIr songs never more varIOUS than tIllS mornIng
Corn by two sorts of worm
HeSSIan fly menaces wheat
Where T has been trlmmmg red cedars
WIth team of 5 cattle brought back 2.2. cedars
OtiS full of electIon Henry, ]effc...rson, Burr
T cutting trees and leaves of whIte oaks
To barley and black grass at the beach
saId one thing wd/ make Rhode Island unammous
-meanmg fundmg-
they wanted Hamtlton for VIce preSIdent
I saId nothIng
WHERETOWARD THE ARGUMENTS HAD BEEN
as renouncmg the transactIons of Runmg Mede)
PrUlce of Orange, kln b -W'llham by the people
that theIr rights be mVlolable
which drove out James Second IS stul actIve
Nothmg less than this seems to have been meditated for us
by somebody or other In BrItaIn
reprInted by Thos HollIS
seventeen sixty-five
OB PECUNIAE SCARSITATEM
this act, the Stamp Act, wd/ dram cash out of the country
and IS, further, UN constitutional
yrl humanity counterfeit
yrl lIberty cankered With simulatIon
Earl Clarendon to Bill Pym m tIle Baastun Gazette
Jan 17th I 768
Danegeld emptIed the land of all cOin
what are powers of these new admiralty courts In America
per pares et legem terrae
IS there any grand Jury to brIng an IndIctment
to :find presentments
any pettt for fact
IS thiS trIal per legem terrae
or by Institutes Digests Roman")
Become attentIve to their liberties
countIes, towns, prIvate clubs and sodalItIes
most accurate Judgement
about the real constItutIon
whIch IS not of wmd and weather
what IS said there
IS rather a character
than a true
ching
mIng
3 84
and 15 pIty that other man shd/'
Wm/ Brattle
It
the wish of almost all good men, replied Adams
IS
that what Brattle states were good law
But from Edward FIrst's tIme to the present letters patent
are otherwIse worded
SICbeneplacttu nostro
Ad regIs nutum duratura
says Fortescue
chancellor
WIll It be shown that by C Judges' Genl Brattle
means barons of Exchequer'
custos rotolorum and clerk of the peace
were created by statute not erected by common law
SIr Edward Coke, who beIng In KIng's dIspleasure,
was removed from his place by writ of the KIng
recitIng that whereas etc// / appoInted to desIst from
tImId Jurors and Judges who held durIng pleasure
ne\ter faIled to second the VIews of the Crown
he, James Second, was oblIged before he brought Hales' case
to dIsplace 4 of hIs Judges
By concerts between King James and SIr Edward
hIs coachman was employed to bring actIon
Jones had the IntegrIty to tell the KIng to hIs fac..e
that he might make 12. Judges but wd/ scarce find I2 lawyers
of hIs opul1on
t WIshIng Genl Brattle success In hIS researches'
J Adams
By another clause (In our Charter)
that the great and general court or assembly
shd/ have power
to erect JudIcatorIes courts of record
and other courts
to determIne pleas processes plaInts actions etc!
whereby a law (.2. WIlham III) have establIshed etc!
385
and In Edward IV thIs Beauchan1ps commiSSion
was, for the uncertaInty, VOln
By letters patent and under great seal
m all shIres, counties palatme and In Wales
and any other domInIons
LXVII
memory of man runneth not to the
HEREOF
contrary
Dome Book, Ina, Off, 1.nd Aethelbert, folcrtght
for a thousand years
and I must add that It appears to me extraordInary that a
gentleman educated under the great GamalIel, Mr Read, shd/
adduce the SIngle dIctum of a counsel at bar uttered arguendo,
as an ornament to hIs dIscourse, not pertInent to hIS argument,
as It thiS settled something
( by the great sages of law formerly and more latterly',
havmg behInd It no colour or pretence of other authorIty
Aula regum, In Norman tImes splIt Into 4 courts,
the summus JustlclarlUS was laId by, lest he get Into
the throne as had Capet RegalIa prlnclpls (Saxon)
whence most of the prerogatIves of the Crown are derIved
In those ages
JudiCIary a mere deputy of the King
In whose presencehIS (the Judge's) authorIty ceased
cum delegans revocarIt (Bracton)
Baastun Gazette '73
........
clear
as to definItIons
CHING
But he (BrattIe) has been extremely unfortunate In haVIng
Bracton, Fortescue, Coke, Foster, Hume, Rapin and Rushworth
duectly agaInst hIm
the materials are at the servIce of the publIc
I leave them to Jewelers and lapidarIes to refine
to fabrIcate and to polIsh
de Burgh m a vain hope of perpetuatIng hIS power
1vIr ShIrley In 1754 confided to Dr FranklIn a secret
that IS a scheme for taxIng the colonIes by act of Parliament
3 87
WHERETO Ben saId nuts
In a very accurate manner
C Gevernors' sez he t whose object IS In general to make
fortunes'
ShIrley a skunk, Pownall a gentleman honest,
Bernard skIlled enough In the law to do mIschIef
and thus the total government was to be rendered wholly
Independent of the people
and the cream to go mto theIr salarIes
(governor's, lIeutenant's and Judges ')
(SIgned) Novan glus
ThIs preposterous t nnprovement' of Mr GrenvIlle's
has wellnlgh rUln'd the whole
OBSTA PRINCIPIIS
the army IS here merely a pubhck nUIsance
Does the SIncere wrIter really belIeve that the desIgn
of unposlng other taxes has been laId aSIde by the mInIstry
and of the new-modellmg of the government">
they had now the governor's salary out of the reveIlue
and a number of penSIons and places I WIsh Massachusetts
knew what a democracy 15, what a republIC
Irrltat mulcet et falsls terroribus nnplet
colonIzatIon IS at common law a casus omzssus
no such tItle IS known In that law
no known punIshment at common law even for treasons
commItted out of the realm
tIll Hen Vlllth
to catch CardInal Pole 1 e statute
Most fanatIcal that ever got Into human perIcranIum
that he had a rIght to all lands hIS subjects cd/ :6.nd, and
even that mfers no rIght In ParlIament or
feudal, had rIght of contract (on that tack)
feudal kIng had no more rIght to absolute over Enghshmen
out of the realm than In BrItaIn
In fact the Oily writer now leaps over law
388
noW over fact now over charters and contracts
there IS no fundamental law that makes a kIng of England
absolute anywhere except It be In conquered countrIes,
and an attempt forfeIts hIs rIght even to the lImIted crown
for 150 years taxed themselves
and governed theIr Internal concerns
Parll'\ment governed theIr trade
Wales was In some thIngs an analogy
held of the crown but not parcel
Edwardus Deo GratIa Angllae
Dom lith et Dux AquItanlae terram Waillae cum Incolls BUIS
11l nostrae proprIetatIS dommlum
now partly to dlvert hIS subjects from the murder of Becket
la ys pretence
that the IrIsh had sold some EnglIsh as slaves
AdrIan an EnglIshman by bIrth bemg pontIff
very clearly convInced of hIS own rIght to dIspose of
kIngdoms and empIres and by power of pence of Peter
to establIsh an EmpIre of the World
that Henry's demand upon Ireland proceeded from pIOUS
motIves
seeds of gospel etcetera fructIfy for Eirets eternal salvatIon
and obhge every house to pay yearly one penny to Rome
Macmorral the raper and Rourke of Meath as our Junto
and as to how IrIsh m Henry the Vth's tune were let Into
England
t shall put In surety for theIr good abearmg',
I
few of the human race have had opportunIty lIke thIS
to make electIon of government, more than of aIr, sou or
cllIXlate
When before have 3 mIllIon people had optIon
of the total fOlm of theIr government)
(Pat Henry, thus contInuIng)
I put up WIth the DeclaratIon for unanImIty's sale
39 1
It IS not pOinted as I wd/ make It
Colonel Nelson IS carrymg our resolutIon
lest the enemy be before us In ParIS
confederacy must precede open allIance
the arguments that delegate Bracton favours
are weak shallow evasIve
wd/ to God you and Sam Adams
were here In Vlrgt.nla
1£ all yrf features can not be kept here
at least we wIll keep some famIly lIkeness
wIll you and S A now and then wrIte
T
HE
RegIs optlmatlum popullque
as Lycurgus In Spart~a, reges, senlores et populus
both greeks and ItalIans
archons, su:ffestes or consuls
AthenIans, Spartans, Thebans, Achalans
uSIng the people as Its mere dupe, as an undcr,\\rorkcl
a purchaser In trust for some tYl ant
dexterous In pulhng down, not In maintainIng Turgot
takes a definItIon of the commonwealth
for a definitIon of lIberty
Where ambition IS every man's trade IS no ploughIng
How shall the plow be kept In hands of owners not hIrelIngs')
Lycurgus
to the end that no branch by swellIng
to say that some parts of Plato and SIr Thos More
are as wIld as the ravings of Bedlam
(found MIlton a dItherIng IdIot, tho' scud thIs wIth
more cIrcumspectIon)
Lowered Interest without annullIng the debt
In thIS transactIon There IS nothIng lIke It In the orIgInal
Mr Pope has conformed It to the notIons
of EnglIshmen and AmerIcans
m TaCItus and In Homer, 3 orders, In Greece as In Germany
a.nd mankInd dare not yet thInk upon
CONSTITUTIONS
t No man In AmerIca then belIeved me )
J A on hIS Davda, recollectIng
Be bubbled out of theIr lIbertIes by a few large names,
Hume, probably not havmg read them
Whether the kmg of the Franks had a negative on that
assembly
395
t forwald young man' wrote the CrltIc
on an unsIgned J A (J A beIng then 53 and VIce
presIdent)
Pharamond on the banks of the Sala
here agam the frencll Jargon
not one clear Idea what they mean by
( all authorIty'
MISERIA scrvltus, ubI JUs v'lgum
prunltlve man was gregarIOUS, paSSIons, appetItes and
predIlectIons
to be observed, commended esteemed
ChIng
Mlng
(captured by England)
un parent me temolgne de l'lDclmation d'y placer
vIngt mIlle florIns d'Hollande'
van der Capellen
Yen der Kemp peut etre de grand utilite pour Ie Congres
( KIng of Spam so good as to offer hIs surety
for Interest and the capItal '
B FranklIn
PSI find the sum he wd/ guarantee IS
150,000 dollars
payable In 3 years
No consIderable sum here obtamable as Monsieur Necker
IS makIng a loan
(meanmg placmg one)
depuls qU'l! (Mr Laurens) est enferme a 1a Tour
(1 e the towYer of London)
America IS wIllIng to gIve a Just Interest
t MortIer and Meerkemaer act under Mssrs Staphorst
I am sorry Mr Blomberg IS III
I think them (the two Tenkate) are capable
but found them so lIable to Influence that I never cd/ close
Mr Van V!oten 15 at Utrecht'
H BIcker
t but have never obtaIned any lnoney
(12. Nov 1780)
nor the least hope of obtamlng ,
J A
Whether SIr Jo Yorke after 20 years residence
IS Ignorant of the Dutch constItution
or IS merely Insulting
Burgomasters of Amsterdam are one
Integral branch of the sovereignty
and dIslIkIng the french they famIlIarIzed to call
4°1
[,ngland the natural ally
KIng of r ng11nd demands 1U111,!Jl1U?l1t of the regents
( la persecutlon contre M \11.11 Bercl"cI
et ses c01nplJces'
Capellen de Pol
de ne pas presser votre depart
les affalres crIse temps pourralt
but des Angla15 outre celul d'alnuscr la repubhque d'Holland
loss of Charleston
Dutch have JOIned the neutrahty
tout credlt SOItd'un peuple SOlt d'un partIculler
de deux chases
l'0plnlon de Ia bonne £01
et de la posslblhte
OU 11 se trouve de faire face
Aff'aues (Xmas day, Amsterdam) stIll suspended
but stockjobbing goes on uninterruptedly
at coffee houses on Sundays and holIdays
when It cannot be held upon 'change
C What they cd! le1.rn from Dutch hIstory
or french of the last .2 5 years'
J A 19 years later
4°2.
LXIX
N whIch case a mInIster here from Congress wd/ be useful
If the neutralIty, ~ m'l1 t ster to all nl.utral courts
][
mIght be useful
Dec 3 I Amsterdam 1780
1st Jan PhIladelphia I 78 I
yr/ commISSIon plenipotentIary sent hereWIth
Huntmgton, PreSIdent
for a secret address you may send under cover
a
Madame la veuve de M Henry Schorn
op de Agsterburg wal by de Hoogstraat
depreCIatIon of money a TAX on the people
paId In advance and
therefore prevents the publIC from beIng found In debt, true
It IS an unequal tax and causes perplexIty
but by no means dIsables the people from carryIng on the war
Merchants, farmers, tradesmen and labourers gaIn
they are the moneyed n1en,
The capItalISts those who have money at 111terest
or those on fixed salarIes
lose
England has Increased her debt 60 mIllion
ours IS not over 6 mIllion
who can hold out the longer)
the depreCIatIon has not tended to make the people
submit to BrItaIn
AmerIcan exports 1774, 12 mIllIon
EnglIsh debt .200 mIllIon
the AmerIcan debt only SIX
a brItIsh mInIster and stock-Jobber
Vergennes IS fixedly resolved to commIt hImself to nothIng
not even hIS treaty WIth the U Snow eXlStlng
4°3
For the purpose of chlc1nlng the U S out of their hbertv
thIs congress proposed at \Tlcnna with the two Elnperors
part of :England's p'llavcr
La Cour de Londres eludera autant et aUSSl long qu'elle peut
l'aveu dIrect
OU IndIrect de 1'1ndepcndcn~c des Et:lts UnlS
Cornwalhs' fate has emboldened the Hollanders
4 Dec '81
Crops 1n U S finest known
t 12,000 florIns, J'al honte d'etre Hollandals'
6 Jan Capellen
« 2. burgomasters, 2. schepens and a pensIonary'
4°7
Mr lvladlson proposed that the orIginal holders
~hd I get face ,all.1c.
but not speculators who h'ld bought In the paper for nothIng
ov the 64 members ov the House ov rcppyzentatlvs
29 were securIty holders
IaPPln cream that IS, and takln It
off of the veterans
an' Mr MadIson's move wuz DEE-fcated
Maclay and JIm Jackson stood out agaInst dirtiness)
smelled thIS stink before MadIson
smelt It or before he told Tom about It
LXX
'MY sItuatIon almost the only one In the world
where n.rn1ness and patIence are useless'
J A VIce presIdent and presIdent of the senate
179 1
WIll the french refuse to receIve Mr PInckney')
Idea of leadIng Mr Adams
Blount (senator) has been speculatIng wIth the EnglIsh
surrounded by proJecters and sWIndlers, you WIll be, Gerry,
FrIendshIp, Marshall a plaIn man and the frogs
countenance only enemIes of our constItutIon
set our seamen ashore at St ]ago de Cuba
tIll our shIps arm office of Secretary as rIval of preSIdent
In aIm to have qUIntuple dIrectory Vervennes' frIends
dIslIke the facts laId to hIS charge
HamIlton no command,
too muclllntrIgue McHenry was secretary for war, In 98
We shd/ have frIgates, no European peace can be lastIng
expedIent to recommend war agaInst France?
(presupposIng they shall not have declared war agalllst us
(thus to PIckerIng) c Talleyrand
affects utter Ignorance, Mr Gerry has communIcated~ although
knOWIng that Talleyrand had much greater acquaintance
WIth the
saId X, Y, Z than has Mr Gerry
(SIgned Gerry)
Hague 1St July '98
peculators, cd/ they be aroused to drive out the French
Vans M/ exhausted all things In enormous bribes' (cIphered)
Talleyrand, leaVIng however reserves for chIcanery,
and Murray not yet removed from the Hague
about t peace'
shortly ago W<..ll howhng fot w,r wIth Brltaln.
peace, Wal
aln1cd electIon.;; \1v appointment of 1vlurray
1t
has at le"t I11d open char1cters to me
c you 1rc hereby dl\<...harged '
John ,\dan1s, PresIdent of the UnIted States
to Tln1 PickerIng
to execute office so far ac; to afll'\. seal to eu(.,losed commISSion
John 1vlarshal of VIrglnrl, to be Chief Justice
and cert1fy your own name pro hac vIce
HamIlton's total Ignorance (or wllatever)
of practIce and usage of nations
eternal neutrality In all wars of Europe
I leave the state with Its coffers full
Dec 28th 1800
73 for Jefferson
73 for Burr
a few foreIgn hars, no AmerIcans In AmerIca
our federahsts no more AmerIcan than were the antlS
And In the mirror of memory, !oT1nafo loco
My complIments to Mrs Warren
as to the sea nymphs
Hyson, Congo, Bohea, and a few lesser diVinIties
Sirens shd/ be got mto It somehow
TorIes were never so affable
TorIes were never so affable
We shall OSCIllate lIke a pendulum
slow starvatIon, a conclave, a divan,
what shall we do when we get there
(first congress of PhIladelphy) a nursery
for AmerIcan statesmen
treasons, felonIes, new praemunlres
Vuglnla has sown wheat Instead of tobacco
never happy In large and promISCUOUS companIes
410
QUIncy's knowledge of Boston harboul, 2. nllll·on lssut.d In bIlls
old to bind young unconsentmg, what rIght'>
why exclude women from franchise ')
power follows balance of land
been months here, and never on horseback
fountain head of JustInian,
deep, Bracton, Domat, AyIlffe and Taylor
from '6I here In BraIntree
was averSIon to paper, they preferred to do busIness by barter
you are rIght, Rush, our trouble IS Iggurunce
of money especially
are stul stockJobbers to believe EnglIsh reports
t No extravagance IS too great
JOHN ADAMS
FOR PEACE
1800
Adams to Jefferson 18 I 5
but I do not thInk that It IS tampered WIth
Your letters seem to get here unopened
Price found C gloomy predlctlons ' most unwelcome
when Adams saId the french revolutIon wd/ flop
C GIve more for Jefferson's letters
Kv{3EPVSJV
THE PISAN CANTOS
LXXIV -LXXXIV
LXXIV
HE enormous tragedy of the dream In the peasant's ben.t
T shoulders
Manes' Manes was tanned and stuffed,
Thus Ben and la Clara a Mzlano
by the heels at MIlano
That maggots shd/ eat the dead bullock
DIGONOS, a£yovo~, but the tWice crucified
where In hIstory wIll you find It)
yet say thIS to the Possum a bang, not a whimper,
wIth a bang not with a whImper,
To bUild the city of Dloce whose terraces are the colour of stars
The suave eyes, qUIet, not scornful,
raIn also 15 of the process
What you depart from 15 not the way
and ohve tree blown white In the wInd
washed In the Klang and Han
what whIteness WIll you add to thiS whIteness,
what candor)
U the great perlpium brIngs In the stars to our shore"
You who have passed the pillars and outward from Herakles
when LucIfer fell In N CarolIna
1£ the suave aIr gIve way to SClrocco
Oy TI~, Oy TI~ ~ Odysseus
the name of my famIly
the wmd also IS of the process,
sorella la luna
Fear god and the stupIdity of the populace,
but a precIse definItIon
transmitted thus S1g1smundo
thus DUCCIO, thus Zuan Belhn, or trastevere with La Sposa
Sponsa Crlstlln mosaic till our time / derficatlon of emperors
425
but a snotty barbarian Ignorant of T'ang hl~tory need not deceIve
one
nor CharlIe Sung's money on 101'1 from 1nonlmo
that IS, we suppose CharlIe had some
and In India the rate down to 18 per hundred
but the local loan lice provIded from 1111ported bankers
so the total Interest sweated out of the IndIan farmers
rose In ChurchIllIan grandeur
as when, and plus when, he returned to tIle putrId gold standard
as was about 19.15 Oh my England
that free speech wIthout free radIo speech IS as zero
and but one pOInt needed for StalIn
you need not, I e need not take over the nleans of productIon,
money to sIgnIfy work done, InSIde a system
and measured and wanted
.it I have not done unnecessary manual labour"
says the R C chaplain's field book
(preparation before confessIon)
squawky as larks over the death cells
milItarIsm progressIng westward
1m Westen nlchts neues
and the Constitution In Jeopardy
and that state of thIngs not very new either
tt la donna,
la donna' "
U Cosa deve contlnuare i "
and WIth one day's readIng a man may have the key In hIS hands
Lute of GaSSlr Hooo Fasa
came a lion-coloured pup bringing fleas
and a bird With whIte markIngs, a stepper
under les SlX potences
Absouldre, que tous nous vueI} absoudre
lay there Barabbas and two thIeves lay beside him
Infantile synthesIs In Barabbas
minUS HemIngway, minus Anthel1, ebullient
and by name Thos WIlson
Mr K saId nothIng foolIsh, the whole month nothIng foohsh
u 1£ we weren't dumb, we wouldn't be here "
and the Lane gang
ButterflIes, mInt and Lesbla's sparrows,
the vOIceless wIth bumm dl um and banners,
and the Ideogram of the guard roosts
el trlste penSler 51 volge
ad U5sel A Ventadour
va II conSIre, el tempo rlvolge
and at Lunoges the young salesman
bowed wIth such french polIteness tt No that IS ImpossIble"
I have forgotten whIch CIty
But the caverns are less enchantIng to the unsk111ed explorer
than the U rochs as shown on the postals,
we wul see those old roads agaIn, questIon,
posSIbly
but nothIng appears much less lIkely,
Mme PUJol,
and there was a smell of mInt under the tent flaps
especIal1 y after the raIn
and a whIte ox on the road toward Pisa
as 1£ faCIng the tower,
dark sheep In the drIll field and on wet days were clouds
In the mountaIn as 1£ under the guard roosts
A hzard upheld me
the wIld bIrds wd not eat the whIte bread
from Mt Talshan to the sunset
From Carrara stone to the tower
and thIS day the alr was made open
for Kuanon of all delIghts,
LInus, Cletus, Clement
whose prayers,
the great scarab IS bowed at the altar
the green lIght gleams In hIS shell
42.8
In the hght of ltght IS the vtrtu.
cc sunt lumIna" sald Erlgena Scotus
II
plowed In the sacred field and unwound the SIlk worn1S early
In tensIle
I
as of Shun on 1vft Talshan
and In the hall of the forebears
as from the beginning of wonders
the paraclete that was present In Yao, the preCISIon
In Shun the compaSSIonate
In Yu the gUIder of waters
ttOMNIA,
all tlungs that are are lIghts "
and they dug hIm up out of sepulture
SOl dlsantly lookIng for Manlchaeans
Les Alblgeols, a problem of hIstory,
and the fleet at SalamIS made With money lent by the state to the
shIpwrIghts
Tempus tacendI, tempus loquendl
Never InSIde the country to raise the standard of lIVIng
but always abroad to Increase the profits of usurers,
dIXIt Lenin,
and gun sales lead to more gun sales
they do not clutter the market for gunnery
there IS no saturatIon
Pisa, in the 23rd year of the effort in sight of the tower
and Till was hung yesterday
for murder and rape with trimmings plus Cholkis
plus mythology, thought he was Zeus ram or another one
Hey Snag wots in the bib!'?
wot are the books ov the bible?
Name 'en1, don't bullshit 11E. 411!I::I::.-
Oy TI~
XIX LevitIcuS or
First ThessalonIans 4, I I
300 years culture at the mercy of a tack hammer
thrown thru the roof
Cloud over mountain, mountaIn over the cloud
I surrender neither the empire nor the temples
plural
nor the constitutIon nor yet the CIty of Dloce
each one In hiS god's name
as by Terraclna rose from the sea Zephyr behInd her
and fron1 her manner of walking
as had Anchlses
till the shrIne be agaIn whIte WIth ma' hIe
till tIle stone eyes look again seaward
The Wind IS part of the process
The raIn IS part of the process
and the Pleiades set In her mIrror
Kuanon, thiS stone brlngeth sleep,
offered the WIne bowl
grass nowhere out of place
X86vta y€a, M~T'YJP,
by thy herbs rnenthe thyme and bastllcum,
from whom and to whom,
wIll never be more now than at present
being given a new green katydId of a Sunday
emerald, paler than emerald,
mInus Its rIght propeller
thIS tent IS to me and TI®ONOI
eater of grape pulp
In COltU Inlumloatlo
Manet painted the bar at La Clgnle or at Les Foltes In that year
she dId her hair In small ringlets, a la 1880 It might have been,
red, and the dress she wore Drecol or Lanvln
a great goddess, Aeneas knew her forthwith
by paInt unmortal as no other age IS unmortal
la France dlxneuvleme
Degas Manet Guys unforgettable
a great brute sweatIng paint saId Vanderpyl 40 years later
of Vlan'llnck
for thIS stone giveth sleep
starla senza pru scosse
and eucal} ptus that IS for n1emory
under the ollyes, by cypress, mare Tlrreno,
435
Past Malmalson In field by the river the tables
Sirdar, Armenonvllle
Or at Ventadour the keys of the chateau,
raIn, UsseI,
To the left of la bella Torre the tower of U go1100
In the tower to the left of the tower
chewed hiS son's head
and the only people who did anythIng of any Interest were H, M
and
FrobenIUS der Gehelmrat
der 1m Baluba das Gewltter gemacht hat
and MonSieur Jean wrote a play now and then or the
Possum
pouvrette et anClenne oncques lettre ne Ius
I don't know how humanity stands It
WIth a paInted paradIse at the end of It
wIthout a paInted paradIse at the end of It
the dwarf mornIng-glory tWInes round the grass blade
magna NUX anlmae wIth Barabbas and .2 thieves beSIde me,
the wards lIke a slave ship,
Mr Edwards, Hudson, Henry comes mtser,ae
ComItes Kernes, Green and Tom WIlson
God's messenger Whiteside
and the guards op/ of the
was lower than that of the prlc;oners
Ct all them g d m f generals c s all of 'em fasclSts"
Ct fer a bag 0) Dukes"
ac ego In harum
so lay men In CIrce's sWine-sty,
IVIln harum ego ac Vidl cadaveres anlmae
U c'mon small fry" sd/ the lIttle coon to the big black,
signed JeremIah
from the tower of Hananel unto Goah
unto the horse gate $8 50 In Anatoth
whIch IS In BenJamIn, $8 67
For the purIty of the air on Chocorua
In a land of rna pIe
From the law, by the law, so bUIld yrl temple
with Justice In meteyard and me1sure
a black delIcate hand
a whIte's hand like a ham
pass by, seen under the tent-flap
on sick call cornman'
cornman', sick call comman'
and the two largest rackets are the alternation
of the value of money
(0£ the unit of money METATHEMENON TE TON
KRUMENON
and usury @ 60 or lendmg
that whIch IS made out of nothlI" g
and the state can lend money as was done
by Athens for the bUIldIng of the SalamIS fleet
and 1£ the packet gets lost In tranSIt
ask Churchdl's baclters
where It has got to the state need not borrow
nor do the veterans need state guarantees
44°
for prIvate usurIOUS lendIng
In fact that IS the cat In the woodshed
the state need not borrow
as was shown by the mayor of W orgl
who had a mIlk route
and whose wIfe sold shIrts and short breeches
and on whose book-shelf was the LIfe of Henry Ford
and also a copy of the DIVlna Conlmedla
and of the Gedlchte of HeIne
a nIce lIttle town In the Tyrol In a wIde flat-lYIng valley
near Innsbruck and when a note of the
small town of W orgl went over
a counter In Innsbruck
and the banker saw It go over
all the slobs In Europe were terrIfied
cc no one)) saId the Frau Burgomelster
443
advenl / not to a schen'la
Ct IS not for the young" saId Arry, staglrIte
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 It 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 and wIth a name to come U
449
LXXV
UT of Phlegethon!
O . ..
out 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
fEfirn@='L~~t-~
""-""4.,. ... ~ ~
t = t r _ W I Zffl
... .If. ",,1' ............... ... -.
!;,
........ ... .... """" 7 /...... ....
45°
LXXVI
rD the C)un hIgh over hOl1zon hIdden In cloud bank
perfect
(b h yr/progress)
each one In the name of hIs god
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
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 edt tlon
(entitled the Oedipus of the Laguncs)
of carIcatures of D'AnnunZlO
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
to Ktir.-ptll;
the mountain and shut garden of pear trees in flower
here rested.
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
459
et sequelae
4 61
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
A instead of watchlIl'
take actIon
It to see if It would
In the mIddle ~
whether upright or horIzontal
cc and having got 'enl (advantages, prIvIlege)
JJ..
for unmedlate scope
thIngs have ends (or scopes) and blglnnlngs To
know what precedes ~ and what follows
Ida
KaU,:rrAoKap.a
WIth drawn sword as at Neml
day comes after day
Shun's wI1l1nd
King Wan's wIll
to AsqUIth, In 1914
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
WhIch fact, It wd/ seem, escaped most, If not all, of the crItICs
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
473
If B~Jl sIng ot Shlh :0tan1(h, 'nd wrote
« 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
~ ~
brlngest to focus
ch'eng ch'eng
Zagreus
Zagreus
475
CJ\N 10 77 E"plIcatlon
~ 3))
I - nilddle 7 - not
iJ.. 3 - follow
~ SpirIt
YIO and
It far
~
IS
]1.
1&
5 - dawn flattery
6 - mouth
'0 ~
hI gosh
~i ~
9 - dtrectlon
of one's will
8 - halves of a
LXXVIII
y THE square elm of Ida
It to come to an end
« money IS nothing"
cc no, there IS nothIng to pay for that bread"
U nor for the n11nestra"
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 N auslkaa
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
4 82
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
4 84
as per / U doan' tell no one I made you that table"
or WhItesIde
U ah certaInly dew lak dawgs,
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 part on what IS pressed under It
the mould must hold what IS poured Into It
In
dIscourse
what matters IS
to get It across e pOl basta
5 of 'em now on 2.,
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 d Jeep oveh there"
2 on 2
what's the name of that bastard') D'Arezzo, GUt d' Arezzo
notatIon
3 on 3
ch1'lcchlerona the yellow bIrd€!.
to rest 3 months In bottle ...~
(auctor)
by the two breasts of Tellus
Bless my buttons, a staff car I .If:
51 come avesse l'lnferno In gran dlSPltto
Capanaeus
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 each one In the name of Its god "
U Prepare to go on a Journey"
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
20 years after
Whitman lIked oysters
at least I thInk It was oysters
and the clouds have n1adc a pseudo-VesuvIus
thIS SIde of T alshan
Nennl, Nennl, who WIll have the succeSSIon ')
To thIS whIteness, Tseng saId
tt What shall add to thIS whIteness') "
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 "t'
(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
contract W, 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 "
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 ")
5°5
and M Arnold Bennett etc
U Ah MonsIeur" said old Carolus (Durand)
ct vallS allez raser une tOIle' "
5°7
well aIn't that lIquids and fluids'> " [To the venerable J B
bearded Y eats]
[\Vlndsor fire]
u Part 0 deh roof ma'am"
511
or the bone luz
as the grain seed and the biceps
books, arms, men, as with Slglsmundo
Immaculata, Introlbo
for those who drInk of the bItterness
Perpetua, Agatha, AnastaSIa
saeculorum
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
51 5
51 tUlt h dolh ehi planh el marrlmen
for the leopards and broom plants
51 7
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 '"
521
To have, wIth decency, l\.nocked
That a Blunt should open
To have gathered fronl the a r a live tradItIon
or from a fine old eye the unconquered flame
ThIs IS not vanIty
Here ert or IS all In the not done,
all In the dIffidence that faltered
52 2
LXXXII
- _ ..... ....' ~r'HEN wIth his huntIng dog I see a cloud
cc Guten Morgen, Meln Herr" yells the black boy
from the Jo-cart
and
perfect
lyrIcs"
and more's the pIty that Dickens died tWice
wIth the dIsappearance of Tancred
and for all that old Ford's conversatIon was better,
consIstmg 111 res non verba,
despIte WIlham's anecdotes, In that Fordle
never dented an Idea for a phrase's sake
tumn"
that IS, perfectly rIght on one sIde or the other
total rIght on either sIde of the battle lme
and the news 18 a long tIme moving
a long tune m arrIvIng
thru the 1IIlpenetrable
crystallme, mdestructible
Ignorance of localIty
The news was qUIcker In Troy's tIme
a match on Cnidos, a glow worm on MItylene,
TIll forty years SInce, Relthmuller IndIgnant
52 5
(C Fvy' In Tdaenmarck efen dh' beasantz gnow hrrn,"
meaning WhItman, exotIc, stIll suspect
four mIles from Camden
u 0 troubled reflectIon
Ohm de Malatestls
wIth Marla's face there In the fresco
paInted two centurIes sooner,
at least that
before she wore It
As Montlno's
In that famIly group of about I820
not wholly Hardy's materIal
Plura dlafana
Hel1ads 11ft the mist from the young Willows
there IS no base seen under Talshan
53°
but the brIghtness of fudor vawp
the poplar tipS float m brIghtness
only the stockade posts stand
534
clouds 11ft theIr small mountaIns
before the elder hIlls
und
~11r sagen
DIe Damen
Du bIst GreIS,
Anacreon
U an' doan you thInk he chop an' change all the tIme
ye spotted lambe
that IS both blacke and whIte
IS yeven to us for the eyes' dehght
o moon my pin-up,
chronometer
\Vel, Chi and PI-kan
Ym had these three men full of humanltas (manhood)
or Jen 2
Xalre Alessandro
Xalre Fernando, e 11 Capo,
PIerre, Vldkun,
Henrlot
and as to gradations
who went out of mdustrlals Into Government
when the slump was In the offing
as against whom, prepense, got OUT of In1perlal Chemicals
In 1938
so as not to be nourIshed by blood-bath)
539
John Adams, the Brothers Adam
there IS our norm of SpIrIt
our
540
SECTION ROCK-DRILL
DE LOS CANTARES
LXXXV-XCV
LXXXV
a gnomon,
Our science is from the watching of shadows;
That Queen Bess translated Ovid,
Cleopatra wrote of the currency,
Versus who scatter old records
ignoring the hsien2 form
543
and Jump to the wmnmg side
(turbae)
II 9 have scopes and beginnIngs tchoung
t cheu
Jen2
are called chung J - 4
weI heou,
544
THE FOUR TUAN J
or foundattons
Hulled rIce and silk at easter
(WIth the bacht held under their aprons
From T'ang's tIme unci now)
That you lean 'gamst the tree of heaven,
and know YgdrasaI1
po, sluh2
mona
pou
gnmg
PerspIcax qUI excoht se Ipsum,
Their wntmgs Wlther because they have no cunoslty,
TIns I(leader", gouged pumpkm
that they hOlst on a pole,
545
But If you wIll follow thIs process
..R chen
reddIdIt gubermum Imperatorl
ttl ch'8n
547
Three hundred years untJ.1 P' an
P'an Keng
KAO
TSOUNG 1324
1265 a c
59
Whetstone wIurlmg to gnnd, JOU
tso
h
cymba et remlS
Trees prop up clouds,
Praecogmta bonum ut te moveas
and then consider the time
htl
549
cheu ~
"Faogare m sacns
11
dlcltur non reveren
FOll lue
ill Vlll, 11
tchoung
m ntes not flame-headed
l'Up to then, I Just hadn't caught on "
chung
wang
hSlen
55°
wIthout sloppmg over
NISI cum saplentlbus non reglt,
nor sage feed from pOIsoned trough
200 years after
"Best you retIre
but as for me, nunquam ego
~ wang
It pou
Ad Meng vadum,
la vertu fleunt
II
south bank of the Yellow RIver,
Huang Ho
55 1
Heaven and Earth begat the perceIver,
ce eh' e' dltta dentro"
Ts'oung
tan
lit
mlng 11 tso
luen
HlI heou
ftli hSIen
iRM
Wu it leant on the yellow halbard
t'sl
nat tcheu t'sl
and do not chase fugItIves "
Che6u's host was hke a forest m Mu plaIn,
quasI sI1vam convemt
1'13P'J t'oung
kouan 96
553
not water, Oll lU ChOUll
~
m nun
±
tp
J! Tan
8 lue
,
i'f p el
~ hou~g
Jt
1m Odysseus "to no man"
554
tcho
overthrew lIla
PraestanoSSlmos regere
• - ....::=..
'M&-
-~~!.
sensIbility
555
~
,
P1
pu erh4
eul cheu
Ct
Imperator alt ... --...J
Iterum dico
i( T'AIMEOU 1637
1562
~
it au TING 1324
1265
cognovIt aerumnas
T
TSOU KIA reIgned 33 years
it weI
55 6
lE tcheng
Z, tcheu
XV II
~ koung
that IS Sagetneb
~ ngo
557
Cdn't see It (mlng) could
Ii
That IS, In some cases, charIty
IOU loung te nat ta
awareness extended
chong XXI, 14
JJ beau
The S laws have root m an awareness
,he Junge
"One of those days", said BrancusI,
Il w hen I would not have given
"IS nunutes of my tIme
for anything under heaven "
Dead In the Plazzale Loreto,
In Holohan's case, murder protected
Jury trial was m Athens
Tyrants resIsted
OU xcxxoLen 8e:r.AL«V
't'<Xu"C'rx
Sagetneb
NOTE Kung slUd he had added notlung Canto 85 18 a somewhat detaUed con
fbmatlon of Kung S VIew that the basic pnnclples of government are found In the
Shu the HIstory ClassIc The numencal references are to Couvreur 8 Chou Kmg
Meanmg of the Ideograms 1S usually given In the Enghsh text, transhteratl0ns as
10 Couvreur and Mathews
559
LXXXVI
WITH solIcItude
it IV XVI 18
that InlrrOurl.d turbatlonem,
BIsmarck forgotten, fantaSIa \vlchout balance-wheel,
'No more wars after '70" (BIsmarck)
"Dunlmhelt, nlcht Boshelt/' saId old Margherlta
(or Elenor~ dowager)
Sono tuttI eretlcl, Santo Padre,
tltl
Jib.
-',
way repeatedly not clean, nOIsy, & your hearts loveless 2.2
Get men, It will grow
Milites Ins tar ursorum, XXlll, 5, men strong as bears
Not m two nunds
Joung
touan
Echctorum
lao
leadIng to
MenCIUS, chI4 (453, Mathews)
MOUWANG
f~
~
repeating the
• tou
=~
tchoung
tchen
to K1un la,
3rd of hIS lIne m office
"TheIr names are banner'd,
year'd on the T'al Tch'ang
the tch'ang
lost to all 14
P~
IEI now'
HE
talks" (End quote)
"What" (Cato speakmg) do you thInk of
ct
murder:t"
But some Habsburg or other
ploughed Ius Impenal furrow,
And old Theresa's road IS still there m BelgIum
Tree-shadowed
and her thalers
were current In AfrIca,
standard m our tIme,
"characters by theIr COInage" ,
Cleopatra wrote of her comage
(Joseph two, verIfy) ploughed Ins furrow)
Up out of Tuscanv, LeopoldIne
"We don't hate anybody "
Quoted Konody,
We fight when our Emperor says so "
(AustrIans 1914)
"Decent chaps" (Schwartz' 43)
'a shame that we have to fight 'em "
U MalS Ie prusslen'
Le prUSSlen
c'est un clue homme "
SaId the aged femme de menage WIth four teeth out
"Vous voullez me rouler,
,
mats ous ne me
roulerez pas,
upaaasque Je SOlS trop rosse "
htlgant1um dona
fel
pao
1~·-
Iou Wang, 770
Kmg Jou
hlled by barbarIans
Houo
m angustns me defendIstl,
"Millet wme, fragrant,
and a red bow
wIth a hundred arrows
and a black bow
and a hundred arrows
ne muttle qwescas ' end quote
"Will not rustle cattle,
will not take oxen and horses,
will close all traps and pItfalls
that they have set for wlld game"
Pe fa
K'in •
TCH'ENG PX
WANG £ 1115-1°78
HE
talks"
end quote, Woodward '36
Eleven lIterates
and I suppose DWIght L Morrow"
re Senate enrollment
Br c g
questIon> about '32
01 hysterIC preSIdIng over It all" '39
House, ForeIgn RelatIons
Bellum cano perenne
LXXXVII
57 0
chlh In the 3rdj tone
and a radIcal
Was not unanImous
,A6&.va. broke tIe,
That IS 6 Jurors agaInst 6 Jurors
needed ' A6cXvcx
RIght, all of It, was under Shang
save what came m Athens
Y YIn, Ocellus, Erlgena
"All tlungs are lIghts II
JIh a
the faInt green In sprIng tIme
The play c;haped from cPAoy",6JLEVOJl
gospoda .6.'YjavE£pa, AaJL1Tpa uVJLfial,VEL
57 1
From the dawn blaze to sunset
"What has been, should have
tAll nletal as barter'
Destutt or whomso,
"PIty to stamp save by weIght"
Always the undertow,
gold-bugs agaInst ANY ordLr,
SeekIng the common (as Arl says)
practice
for squeeze
directio voluntatis
It An mstrument of pohcy
even more than a measure" SaId Douglas (C H)
and the squlrmcrs plunder ll1en's ll11nd,
wantmg all nlen cut down to worm-SIze
itA few" said Jean C
"gros lcgunlcs '
m poelu,
causa motuum,
pIne seed sphttlng chff's edge
Only sequoIas are slow enough
BmBul tl lS beauty
"Slowness IS beauty "
from the
Ku
to Polctlers
57 2
The tower whereIn, at one pOInt, IS no shadow,
and Jacques de Molay, IS where>
and the "SectIon", the proportIons,
lendIng, perhaps, not at Interest, but reSIstIng
Then false fronts, barocco
"We have", saId Menclus, ((but phenomena"
monumenta In nature are sIgnatures
needIng no verbal tradItIon,
oak leaf never plane leaf John Heydon
~eAAo( sleep there on the ground
And old Jarge held there was a tradItion,
that was not mere epIstemology
Mohamedans will remam, - naturally - unconverted
If you remove houns from ParadIse
as to hSIn
573
There IS no such play for a goat
Tho' Mr PaIge has descrIbed LIgurIan butchery,
And the huntIng trIbes require some preparatIon
Mont Segur, sacred to Hchos,
and for what had been, San Btrtrand de Commmges
"Whtrcvtr"
saId Frobemus ((we fmd thcst.. drawings, we
find water at not more than 6 feet,
And the headless clay hons leave place for the head"
SqwrrI1s wlute, perhaps before a hard WInter, oak cats,
Inchans say when hIgh weeds
As the water-bug casts a flower 011 stolle
nel batro,
One InteractIon Te
Ii InteractIon A shadow~
574
T'ang Wan Kung -.l:
pu erh "Why must say profit
No chchotomy
Who leave the sun out of
chili
575
Seepage,
the elan, the block,
dIssolutIon
577
* where there was a law
agaInst du<..lhng
I alone knew how he meant to avoId that
I went to Clay's on the FrIday, the youngest chtld
went to sleep on the sofa
Mrs Clay, as always Since the death of her daughter,
the pIcture of desolatIon
But calm and conversable
Clay and I parted at midnIght
Saturday, Randolph's, Georgetown,
Could not ask hIm
but menttoned the cluld asleep on the sofa
He sald
"I shall do nothing to cUsturb Its sleep
or the repose of Its mother',
and went on makmg COdlCllS for thmgs of shght value,
To Macon, some enghsll shdhngs to
keep game when he played whIst,
YOWlg Bryan sent back to school to
save hIm shock If and so forth
Wanted gold, coms not then m cIrculatIon,
sent Johnny to Branch bank to get a few pIeces,
who returned, saYIng they had none
"They are hars from the begnung My HORSE'"
which was brought rum, for he never rode Johnny's
Down Penn Avenue to what IS now Corcoran, RJ.ggs,
Johnny behmd mm at 40 paces
Asked for the state of his account The teller
took up packages of bills and
asked 1n what size notes he wd/ have It
'I want money "
saId Mr Randolph
The teller, begImng to understand lum, saId Suver~
liMy MONEY'" saId Mr Randolph
'Have you a cart, Mr Randolph~11
By that orne the casluer
told hIm there was a nustake m the answer to Johnny
and that he shdj have what he wanted
He got It, and closed the account,
Returned and gave me an envelope
to open If he were kl1led,
And a shp to read before I got to the ground
to feel m Ius breeches pocket
nme pIeces, I thInk It was,
3 for me, Tamall, Hanulton, each
to make seals of, as mementos
We were all three then at hIS lodgmgs
He and the seconds took carrIage,
I followed on horseback
HIs (R's) stepfather
brought out a "Blackstone" (a D 1804)
The place was a tluck forest m whIch a htcle
depreSSIon or baSIS
Bellum perenne
1694 on what It creates out of notlung
1750 shut down on coloma! paper
Lexmgton,
J
'64 "greatest blessmg sald Lmcoln
'
579
And thert l~, undoubtldl), blood on theIr slIver,
WIthout honour I11tn sUlk. Into servItude
ResponsIble, or lrrtSpOnSlblc govcrnment'
MlmnlUlll of land \\ Ithout surveIllance
And as to plcragc
I Edward VI, c 12
5 86
1694 Loan One MIllion 200,000
Interest 80,000, EApenscs 4
GERM, nucleus, and IS now 900 MIllIon
It tends to beget and prolong useless wars,
aggravate InequahtIes, make and break fortunes
"To carry on trade of bankmg
upon the revenues,
and In the name of the
Umted States,
to pay revenues to the
Government
In Its own (the bank's own) notes ofpronuse To
Hold Umted States moneys
m depOSIt, WIthout makIng compensatIon,
To dIscredIt other banks and dIsparage 'em, to
hold real estate, and retaIn a
body of tenantry, To
set branches In States WIthout theIr consent or approval,
to be exempt from habIhty If they fau,
To have the U S for a partner, and to have partners
outSIde tIns country,
To be exempt from the regular admUl1stratlon of jusnce,
and to have all thIS In
Monopoly
Yeas
Barnard, Benton, to 20
Nays 23 Webster, Wll-
ley
That It faIled to produce a unIform currency,
Issued illegal and VICIOUS paper
"payable at Phtladelphy"
LXXXIX
ChI crescera
(ParadIso)
('of SOcIetIes" saId Emanuel Swedenborg
Mr Jefferson luung up for LOUIS PlulIppe,
a fact wInch shd have been known to
M de Tocquev111t
PrIvIlege to serVt WIth KIng and Macon
& JOh11 Taylor of CarolIne
Entanghng allIance WIth nOIlL,
would be from th<..lr cultIvation,
That IS to say revenue [roln the waste lands would be
Freedom not favoured by tenantry,
conlpare as above Abbas MIrza
"wheat, cotton, barley" July 1823
As to whether law cd/ be abohshed by IndIan treaty
to whIch the c'enhghtened classes" had sunk
Macon mentIoned lulisides for grave yards
Mr Webster erroneous
ObIt Plcabla 2 Dec '53
59°
And paper cd/ be left to the states
Filled France wIth precIous metals
when England WIth her overgrown bank
and France had no mInes for these metals (18 7)
PublIc debt Increased (England) 400 nullion
Debt born of the Bank of England
by paper, when the Bank, on Its own declaratIon,
had not a s1ulhng
Profuse Issues,
Sudden contractIons
By power of "construction"
CONstrued
Branch forced on Alabama,
trade m bills Ersatz for products (199)
Hence WAR, 30 years later
Prototype m Threadneedle St faIled overtradmg
Our OWN money lent 'em and WE
paId one and one half millIon mterest
and more serIOUS the POhtlcal aspect
As agamst Its hug as well as Its blow,
I speak of SIr W llham Pulteney
N arne for name, lang for kIng
:£ wang
:£ wang
59 1
Adams match for ~ the House tIll the last,
Randolph scourge of corruptIon
"An advantage, Mr Van Buren"
(Aukland at Talleyrand's)
2 buffer states and 3 dynastIes
Ca' OUT, tiSSt/ore
Auctor Good God you don't mean they're worse than the
other gang~
Borah ('Eh e No,
I eh can't say that e exactly"
('BorrowIng Its own
(the NatIon's own)
money"
SaId Randolph of Roanoke,
"And payIng Interest"
TarIff promoted sectIonal feelIng
ExceSSIve Issues, all on pubhc deposlt~
Treasury wdj pay one hundred Cents on the $
for what cdj be had for odd 60
As IndIan stiver m our tlD1C
21 but the suckers paId 7S
Catron (I thInk It was) had shown horse-sense
If our government must
sell mOl1opohes'
sd/ Andy Jackson
70 nulhon,
~ehercule ventuDl'
WIth bOWIe kmves
pre- not ex-officIo
Do our cottons sold In Canton & Calcutty
need such protectIon at home ~
And do not tax salt, said Aurehan
Mr Taney
Burr dId hJ.s Job 20 years late
MonSIeur Vebbstalr voulalt lezarder
Ut moveat, ut doceat, ut dllectet
& J Q A objectIng to slavery
Roman law 2/3rds hogswoggled by same
Old John on fundmg, old John, VIde Infra, qUIte a wa.y,
on depreCIatIon,
or on bemg mercantl1e,
llAnd If the bills be bottomed " sd/ Mr Jefferson
loc Cit to Crawford 1816
From our own mInes, metal
1824 5,000 N Carohna
1833 868,000 (SIX states)
and m '34 presumably will be 2 Inlllyum
and a greater source 15 our foreIgn commerce
From Napoleon Consulllto tIns day '34"
have been speCIe payments
Mr Hamllton set IS to one, IS stiver one gold,
when m Spam, Portugal It was SIxteen,
From Natchez and N'Yoleans doubloons
and to suppose metal will stay WIth us when the exporter
can gaIn one buck on every 15 carrIed out
doubloons, gUIneas, half-Joes
and; to depart from the great senator's most
courteous language,
6 suspenSIons till 1819,
exclUSion of foreIgn COIn part of the system
593
a currencv (foreIgn cOIn ,vas) for whIch they paId trIbute to
no one"
au TIS
NottlIng In course of exchanges to
cart") SpCCl<" fronl AtlantIc States to the West
Page refs/ to 'ThIrty y C'ar~ VIl \V'
594
WIthout mstorlc black-out
they cannot mamtaln perpetual wars
Tmey ('34) showed an Increase
m all branches of revenue
Benton b 1782, d 1858
"'How often had they been told trade was paralyzed
& shIps Idle;J
"HId the books but cd/ not Jude weekly statements"
"In speCIe and WIthout mterest
Agamst whIch such a bank IS a nUIsance"
16 to I for above 300 years In the Spamsh domimons
AgaInst BIddle one mllhon and some clucken feed
for winch no vouchers are found
Levan facIas LOUIS Philippe suggested that
Jackson stand :firm
and not sugar lus language
Pubhc debt was extmgwshed 1834
8 yueh4-S
595
ThIS quotatIon IS not [rOIn Mr Webster
Clay opposed mInts 111 New Orleans and North Carohna
The CIvIl War rooted In tarIff
Pluladelphla dId not diffuse,
France had ten mInts, and m Me>.J.co there are 8,
Every CItizen now more or less cheated
Mr B said he had but two bank-notes
both of them counterfeIt
French currency had stood two revolutIons, one conquest,
20 mIllIons entered that country,
no Interest was paid for Its use
Land not safe agaInst 'Issue"
Crops not safe agamst "Issue"
Sovrelgnty IS In the rIght over COInage
"All that It (the Bank) creates out of nothIng IJ
597
SaId Bonaparte ImagInatIon
220 rIflemen and one pIece of artIllery
"To enVIron us" saId Mr DIX
liThe IrIsh are devout, moral, IndustrIoUS"
he even SaId soher
KIt Carson sea-sIck
Cludad de los Angeles
That g sounded as h
3 days WIth no food but rosebuds,
Che taIga 10 stato
Don Jesus broke hIs parole
Guadalupe ('48) HIdalgo
Out of von Humboldt AgassIz, Del Mar and Frohemus
The wrong way about It despaIr
(I thmk that IS In Benton)
Randolph of Roanoke Charlotte Court House, '32,
Henry's paSSIon fiddlIng, dancIng and pleasantry
(PatrIck Henry)
'We ought not to have turned you out"
saId some old crump to V an Buren
"Great blackguard from Tennessee, by name of Jackson"
No auctIon of slaves here In the CapItal'
T~v ~wv o:Acuv ocpX~v
Slave labour IS very expensIve
But for PrIce, Sloat mIght damn well have lost It
Quam parva saplentia regltur
599
An experIment on hIS nerves was resolved 011,
Jln A
4(even If an mdependent press cd/ be found to
attempt It"
M Hotttnguer aParts
Vlcountess BarrIngton Lady Bloomfield
defended by Theslger and other emInent counsel
and they got 14 years transportatIon,
The sub-treasury was revIved
Lows Plllhppe wdj not let them cut down theIr notes to 200
600
4 NeIther by force nor by fraud, that there be
no co(.rC1011, either by force or by fraud,
That IS law'~ purpose, or should be
t Ae~\I'1 s\vung the hung JUry
601
ltPlge-mol Ie type" saId old Gustav
qUI VOllS pelndra un fautcull carthaglnols
Henry J had Coburn take photographs
I need add nothIng, wrote Van Buren, to the descrIptIon
by Col Benton
'Good-bye Tazewell, good-by Van Buren'"
(that was Randolph)
I on borrowed capItal, very unmercantlIc,
saId John Adams
Judge Marshall, father of war
Agamemnon lalled that stag, against huntmg rItes
"Leave the Duke, go for gold "
And they forged those thalers, In our tIme,
quest'oggl
BrIts dId, nacherly BrIts dId
"Benton has begun understandmg me"
(Randolph)
In VenIce the bread prIce was stable,
shIp models stIll there In DanzIg
Alex saId set up the tables,
any soldIer's note wIll be paId
Gold was under the PontIfex,
Caesar usurped that
Bezants were stable till Dandolo broke mto Stamboul,
there had been some arab uneaSIness
The forgery was froDl Ignorance,
Valla found It
I2 to one, Roma, and about half that In KarachI
And the Portagoose, as we cease not to mention,
uprooted SpIce trees
602
Orage remarked on the "receSSIon of power"
Uncle George saId he knew when he came out
(Lodge, Knox) that there wdj be one hell of a row m the Se-
nate
"offensIve, defensIve"
and there was one
,50 moclang bIrds, 40 robIns,·· wrote Randolph
and "construe all our lIbertIes from us"
Mazzlnl Doverl
, XCX:t'lX acpocycXc;'·
semIna motuum
60 5
Kuthera 8tt.vcX
Kuthera scmplterna
UbI amor, IbI oculus
Vae qUI cogltatls InutIle
qualn In nobIs slnl1htudlnc dlvlnae
reperctur Imago
"Mother Earth 111 thy lap'
saId Randolph
~Y&.7n)(jev 1tOAO
hberavlt masnatos
CastalIa lIke the moonlIght
and the waves rIse and fall,
EVlta, beer-halls, semIna motuum,
to parched grass, no\v IS ralll
not arrogant from habIt,
but furIous from perceptIon,
Slbylla,
from under the rubble heap
n1' clevastl
from the dulled edge beyond paIn,
m'clevastl
out of Erebus, the deep-lYIng
from the WInd under the earth,
m'elLvastl
from the dulled aIr and the dust,
m'elevastl
by the great flIght,
m' elevastl,
ISIS Kuanon
from the cusp of the moon,
m'elevastl
606
the VIper stIrs In the dust,
the blue serpent
glIdes from the rock pool
And they take lIghts now down to the water
the lamps float from the rowers
the sea's claw drawIng them outward
"De fondo" saId Juan Ramon,
hke a mermaId, up'\\- ard,
but the hght perpendicular, upward
and to Castaha,
water Jets from the rock
and In the flat pool as Arethusa's
a hush In papyrI
Grove hath Its altar
under elms, m that temple, m sIlence
a lone nymph by the pool
WeI and Han rushtng together
two nvers together
brIght fish and flotsam
tom bough In the flood
and the waters clear With the flowmg
Out of heaVIness where no mmd moves at all
"bIrds for the mInd" sald R.1chardus,
Ilbeasts as to body, for know-how 'l
GalO' GaIO'
To Zeus WIth the SIX seraphs before hIm
The arclutect from the pamter,
the stone under elm
Takmg form now,
the rlhevl,
the curled stone at the marge
Faunus, Slrenes,
the stone takIng form In the aIr
ac ferae,
cerVI,
the great cats approaching
Pardus, leopard!, Bagheera
drawn luther from woodland,
woodland e7tt X6ov(
the trees rIse
and there IS a wIde sward between them
ot X66vr,OL myrrh and ohbanum on the altar stone
gIVIng perfume,
and where was nothmg
now furry assembla.ge
IS
and In the boughs now are VOIces
grey WIng, black WIng, black wmg shot WIth crImson
and the umbrella pInes
as In PalatIne,
as In pIneta XeAL8&>v, XeAL8&lV
For the processIon of Corpus
come now banners
comes flute tone
at X66v~o~
to new forest,
duck smoke, purple, rIsmg
brIght fla.me now on the altar
the crystal funnel of aIr
out of Erebus, the dehvered,
Tyro, Alcmene, free now, ascendIng
e 1 cavaherI,
ascendIng,
no shades more,
608
lIghts among them, enkIndled,
and the dark shade of courage
'H:A£x'"t"pcx
bowed still WIth the wrongs of Aeglsthus
Trees dIe & the dream remaIns
Not love but that love flows from It
ex ammo
& cannot ergo delIght In Itself
but only In the love flowmg from It
UBI AMOR IBI OCULUS EST
XCI
II
•I
ab 10
II
dolchor qu' al
•
cor
II
fil
II
val
II
rlJ-
•
AB La DOLCHOR QU'AL COR MI
6xo
justlluan, Theodora
from brown leaf and tWIg
The GREAT CRYSTAL
doublIng the pIne, and to cloud
pensar dl hels m' es rlpaus
MISS Tudor moved them wIth galleons
611
The golden sun boat
by oar, not by saIl
Love movmg the stars 1t'OCpa. ~W~LO"
by the altar slopt.
lTamuz' Tamuz"
They set lIghts now In the sea
and the sea's claw gathers them outward
The peasant WIves lude cocoons now
under theIr aprons
for Tamuz
That the sun's suk
hSlen tensIle
be clear
CEAeVtXu<; That Drake saw the armada
& sea caves
Ra-Set over crystal
movIng
612
Heye DIana, help me to neode
WItte me thurh crafte
whuder lch mael hdhan
to wonsom Jonde
Rome th'llke tyme was noght
So that he spread a deer-rude near the altar,
Now Lear mJanus' temple IS laId
6I6
"Ghosts dIp m the crystal,
adorned"
That the tone change from elegy
"Et Jehanne"
(the Lorraine girl)
A lost kInd of experience ~
scarcely,
o Queen Cytherea,
che '1 terzo clel movete
XCII
618
but the chtld played under wave
e plove d' arnor
In llUl
6.20
hence, In a way, the RImlDl bas-rehefs
and Semele's personalIty shot to atoms
Even you were happy last Wednesday
'10 porto"
sdj Deicrolx
lila cecIta" for I forget how many
ten thousand ItalIans
"Two evils
usury In the bank rot
& theft In les socj anonymes"
Grabbed hIS phone and called un mIrustro
BottaI also phoned TorIno
mstanter, to dIg out VIvaldI,
And 1l11D1strI went to the fightIng hne
as dId old Marmettl
"Hans Sachs"
sdj Schmtz Brandt
war eln Schuh-
macher und poet dazu "
Yet, havmg seen the armada
turn back='
That wdj scarcely from sea-caves
300 years
Nem' aber m Wolken
And agaInst usury
and the degradatIon of sacraments,
For 40 years I have seen tlus,
now flood as the Yang tse
also desensItIzatIon
25 hundred years desenSItIzatIon
621
2 thousand years, desensItIzatIon
After Apollomus, desenSltIzatlon
& a httle hght from the borders
Erigena,
A VIcenna, RIchardus
Htlary looked at an oak leaf
or holly, or rowan
as agamst the brown oll and corpse sweat
& then cannon to take the cmnks OpIum
& the Portagoose uprootIng SpIce-trees CIa common"
sez Arl "custom m trade"
XCIII
corrent' attratttva,
WIth the ureus, azure
that IS from turquoIse and gold,
ISlde, out of turquoIse and gold
Peltz traJ. pena d'arnor Que Trlstans l'amador
Qu'a suffrl mamta dolor
per Iseutz la bionda
FIrst petals and then cool raIn
sward Castaha agam
Peltz tral pena d'arnor
Que Tnstans l'amador
Qu'a suIfr! matnta dolor
Per Iseutz la bionda
FIrst petals
and then cool raIn
By sward Castaha agam
The sUIcIde IS not serIous from convIctIon
One should first bump off some nUIsance
From sheer phYSIcal depressIon, c'est autre chose
San CrIstofaro provIded transport
WIth a lIttle ChrIsto grIppmg Ius haIr
the mIst domed over Gardasee
the east lobe bluer from sulphur
dove slede Pescluera
no such blue north of Sorrento
Cortesla, onestade
out of the Ureus
Nme knowledges about
cluh3
chili.
"compagnevole ammale"
~~4~)
Taffy went putty-colour when I mentioned Zaharoff (I9 14)
And general WhOOSlS, when he read the name, Aquarone,
3a years later
or as Ub saId ('ten to charge a nest of macmne guns
for one who will put his name on a chIt
The autumn leaves blow from my hand,
agltante calescemus
and the wind cools toward autumn
Lux m dlafana,
CreatrlX,
oro
Ursula benedetta,
oro
By the hours of paSSIon,
per dJ.1ettevole ore,
gUlde your successor,
Y solt, Y done,
have compaSSIon,
Plcarda,
compassion
By the wmg'd head,
by the caduceus,
compaSSion,
By the horns of ISis-Luna,
compassion
The black panther hes under Ius rose-tree
J'aI eu pltle des autres
Pas assez' Pas assez'
For me nothIng But that the chIld
walk. m peace m her basilica,
The hght there almost sohd
62.8
cmn4
"mal tardl
"per l'Ignoto"
and the soul's Job ~ (Ocellus)
"Renew"
as on the T' ang tub
Renew
JIb
hsm
n
renew
62.9
the terror of all four-flushers
& there IS no doubt that D'Annunzlo
could move the crowd In a theatre
or that the stone rose m Brescia,
Ampluon'
And yet for Venus and Roma
a wraith moved m alr
And Raplcavoh lost for a horse-Jump
Quarta Sponda
tranSient as alr
Waste after Carthage
not yet' not yet'
Do not awaken
Came then Flora Castaha
"Air hath no petals now,
where shall come leaf on bough
naught IS but air
"pone metum, Cermthe,
Nee deus laed1t
and the Lorrame girl heard In the fields
Tho' the skater move fast or slow
the Ice must be sohd
Pone metum, Cermthe
volucres delphmasque ad audltum
tone, ode, tide
1f the tone draw the dolphIn
Iii hSlen
nuova vita
e t1 fiammegglo
Such lIght IS In sea-caves
e la bella Clprlgna
where copper throws back the flame
from pInned eyes, the flames rIse to fade
In green air
A foot-print ~ aleun vestiglo ~
thus was It for s thousand years
I Brederode"
(to Rush, Ap 4 1790)
treatIes of commerce only,
Blue Jay, my blue Jay
that she should take wIng In the Illght
by the Kmgdom of
T'al ~
~
Wu II:\,
Tzu .:r
as mentIoned m RollIn,
ref LIncoln, 14th May 1810
'or whose depreCIatIons are to the favour ofthe whole people"
Mr Adams saw thru the bank hoax
& Suvltch a century plus 20 years later
'd- d- d- dIna- mIte'
SSSI SI
d-d-
dinamite'
& the MedIcI fal1ed from acceptmg too many depOSIts
Alex , a respectable
or at least merItorIOUS BIddle,
alIve 1890
"& consequently the corruptIon of hIstory"
J A to Rush
18 'leven
Beyond CIVIC order
l'AMOR
Was It Frate EgldlO- 'per la mente"
loolang down and reprovIng
"who shdj mIstake the eye for the mInd"
Above prana, the lIght,
past hght, the crystal
Above crystal, the Jade'
The clover endurmg,
basalt crumbled wIth time
"Are they the same leaves""
that was an mtelligent questIon
And that all gates are holy
(Pandects I 8 out of Galus)
chvlDl et humam JurIS commumcatlo
and to the hIghest mtegrlty
Ius Itahcum (DIgest FIfty, xv)
Antonmus gave tIns to Tyre (Paulus, two)
Consul for the fourth tIme, 7th December & Paulus
m Constantmople
& then the fun starts
with the "Code"
I 3, TItle
"feed 'um"
The Bulgar was trymg to hold onto horse sense
& an ImpreSSIon
perhaps m too general language, that
ConstantIne was a louse
('BUT by the new law,"
127
"from affection alone"
CODE V 27, the paragraph precedmg 2
Code V IV, 23,5 called also "fuss-cat"
To Kung, to avoId theIr encIrclement,
To the Odes to escape abstract yatter,
to Menclus, Dante, and AgassIz
for Gestalt seed,
pity, yes, for the mfected,
but mamtam antiSepSIS,
let the hght pour
ApolloIllUS made peace with the anImals
Was no blood on the Cyprian's altars
Justuuan mserted that sentence
"from affection" the novel, 127
From the hawk-lang
Goth, Agdu
Prabbu of Kopt, Queen Ash
may ISIS preserve thee
Maws paId for the land
I bur 60 measures, 10 stalO, I mana of sIlver
as IS sald on the black obehsk
somewhere about 27 0 4
m the long boats east of Abydos
•1\ Leang
Hwuy
••
a
Itt ts'a12
It fa
wua
13
•a
pao3
63 6
G~vov ~tdpt:tV
~6io" ~o" x6a~ov yap ~CI)o)'o,,£t 1tcXV1"(x
11134
~p6)~ci taxEL )(<<1 ~uv(a1"'l)aL"
III 34 F P
no full trans/ ttll ISII,
remarks F C Conybeare, the preleetor,
who says It IS (SIC) "hghtly wrItten"
although no theologIan touches It well ,
NO' not even R.1chardus
IcipXtXc;
Apollomus & RJ.chardus
or, as Swedenborg says "of SOCIeties"
& that gnffins dIg rocks spotted WIth gold
and the phoemx
1tP01tEIL~P(OUt; is(.Lvou~ t:t~~Cii &3£LV
as do swans for those havmg ear
By the nymphs and have ecstasy, sober
and that the umverse IS ahve
IpCa)~« toxcL
& keepmg the Ganges on Ius nght hand
went down ten days toward the sea
ll
& the "red sea named after Erythras
not from Its colour, the cyamne
VJLa~ 8e8cdKa.'TE TTjV 8t!A.aTTav EppwlT8e
BaIara full of myrtles and date palms
a place well watered by spnngs
1trtp« ~or:t; ~v aoep£cxv ~L!L~ar.v
and they bell the boat to keep off the seals
Grant, 0 Muses,
XtXl epcxa6~VtXt ItXA~ACJ)V
that was Smyrna,
but fOWld Ephesus full of pIpers, buggars & nOIse
"We are the plant' saId Hugo Rennert
or
as Homer says
1CoIJ..CXL~ t8eC't.tC;
not merely set stone
1Cp&."t"'t'e~v !xtXG't'OV o£ 1"r. 8UVC't:t"CXL
snt "t"~v
vexuv EC11tepC't.~ ~8'rJ
embarkmg at sunset
That he passed the mght on the mOWld of Achilles
·'master of tempest and fire"
& he set up Palamedes
an Image that I, Phuostratus, sa.w
and a shrme that will hold ten people drmkmg
CClt was not by dltch-dIggmg and sheep's-guts
"rn Aeohs close to Methymna"
m the summer lIghtnIng, close upon cock-crow
So that walkmg here under the larches of ParadIse
the stream was exceedIngly clear
& almost level Its margIn
"was thrown m my way a touch-stone
reXp ~ctatXVOC; xcx6cxpov xa.t cX.1t) ou8&voc; 6v1)"t"ou
"HIe soot leones",
CalplS,
on the North sIde (fas gold from the Hellads' poplar"
and at Gadara (CadIz) sumerIan capItals to theIr pillars
8e 'rotc; 6ar.~ 7tpcX.1:'''rouO't
for the doers of hohness
y~v (.Lev 1ttXO"eXv &aepcxA~
they may slnp or SWIm, beIng secure v 17
We have already raIsed our stele to Musomus,
the man WIth the spade
chung
as yung chung
VESPASIAN a D 69
formo nuevos arcmvos
BUT dtd not show good sense m Greece
SaId ANTONINUS
"Law rules the sea"
Rhom
meanmg lex
Daughter of a sun prIest m Babylon
told Plulostratus to set down tins record
of TYana
~Glv £tXU't"ou 7tcx£3CJ)v U7tO 't"o!c; 6e:oit;
not partlcular about theoretIcal orgamzatlons
A
V 3S worth attentIon
E'7T£ VOVV EA(JOV €lp~(j€Tat
€l rqv tfrox.~v rqv lJL7JV epKEIS
& do not mow the lugh stalks
ANTONINUS reIgned 138 to 161
SEVERUS and Juha Domna about 198
£
£
E:AA7)V(~OV~tx~ ~e:v tEAA"1)VLX(;iV
as agaInst that schnorrer Euphrates
and he sald to DIan
Set It to mUSIC
That It
Acre, agam,
IS of thrones, *
and above them Jusace
WIth an Eleanor
who sucked the venom out of Ius wound,
and came up VIa Padua,
for a balance of wme & wool,
dIstraInt and tolls not unbridled
and m 1288 a thunderbolt passed between them
thJ.s wdf be m the tIme of FederICO Secondo,
Alfonso, St LOUIS, and Magnus of Norway
and two years later she died and lus luck went out,
Edwardus, who played Ballol agamst the Bruce
and brought the stone down to London
where It IS seen to thIS day
PACTUM SERVA
Be Tralst
As agaInst anyone who takes hIs blessmgs mto a comer,
and after that we will go up to the Cataracts
xexJ. XEAOC8ou'Joc; &:xouaoc~
<Pocv"t"cxa(cx aocpoo1"epcx (.LL~~crecu~
not baffled by terror,
and wanted to keep Sparta, Sparta,
lL~ E'JO{LLAOU'J"t"CUV
not a meltIng pot
& when Athens exceded the tnbutes set by AnstIdes,
Coke, after he got mto Parhament,
The boat of Ra-Set moves WIth the sun
"To buIld hght
hsm
Sald Ocellus
xcv
LOVE, gone as hghtmng,
endurmg 5000 years
Shall the comet cease movmg
or the great stars be tied m one place'
"Consonantlum demonstratnx"
!<p(X~' Beda
Deus est anima mundt,
ammal optimum
et semplternum
Tempus est ublque,
non motus
m vesperlbus orblS
Expergescl thalanus, gravat serpella mmbus
MIst weighs down the wlld thyme plants
'lIn favour of the whole people" "They repeat"
sald DelcrolX
Van Buren unsmearmg Talleyrand,
Adams to Rush before that, m ISII
And there were gwlds m Byzantium
"Not pohtlcal", Dante says, a
"compagnevole ammale"
Even If some do coagulate mto cIties
it6AL~, ?tOAL1''-)('~
reproducteur,
contrlbuable Paradts pemt
but 1COAeU<U meanmg to plough
itOAuYA(Ua(J'oc;
There were many sounds In that oak-wood
Benton when there was plenty of metal,
Van Buren already desmearmg Talleyrand
JA lithe whole people (devaluatIon) "
Alexander paId the debts of Ius soldIery
And over an arch In Vicenza, the stemma,
the coat of arms, stone Lap 0, glubbelme eXl1e"
II
A
IX the three years peace we owe Wmdsor
'36-'39
As from the terrace, SaInt Bertrand
to southward from MontreJeau
Elder LIghtfoot IS not downhearted,
Elder LIghtfoot 15 cert'nly
not
downhearted,
He observes a design m the Process
MISS Ida by the bars m the Jall house
"de Nantes
II y a un pnsonmer", perlplum
from Madnd more than 40 years earher,
Carnere show m Pans,
"Bret" In la rue Grande Challmiere
the Jap gal "MatS Rembrandt"
m ecstasy
And the russe
brmgmg all the "Smoke" ofTurgenev
"Are" as Uncle Willlam satd "the daughters of Memory"
"Plrandello,
because that IS the sort of thIng that
that does go on m one's mmd"
Whose mmdJ
Among all these twerps and Puhtzer sponges
no vOice for the ConstItutIon,
No objection to the Instanc blackout
" My bIkInI IS worth yr I raft" SaId Leucothae
And If I see her not
No sIght IS worth the beauty of my thought
The Immense cowardice of advertIsed htteratl
& Elsa Kassandra, "the Baroness"
von Freitag etc sdj several true tlungs
m the old days /
dnven nuts,
Well, of course, there was a certam stram
on the gal m them days m Manhattan
the prmclple of non-acquiescence
laid a burden
Dmklage, where art thou,
With, or Without, your von:a
You saId the teeth of the black troops
remmded you of the boar-hunt,
I dunk yrl first boar hunt, but
The black prisoners had such a nIce way WIth chIldren,
Also what's Ius name who spent the mght m the alI
caught m the moormg-ropes
Lone rock for sea-gull
who can, m any case, rest on water'
Do not Hmdoos
lust after vacwty!
WIth the Gardasee at our dtsposltlon
"0 World'"
sald Mr Beddoes
"Somethmg there"
sdJ Santayana
Responsus
Not stasis/
at least not m our ImmedJate Vlcmage
a hand WIthout face cards,
the enormous orgamzed cowardIce
And there IS somethmg decent In the unIverse
If I can feel all tlus, dtcto mtllestmo
At the age of whatever
I suppose St HIlary looked at an oak-leaf
(vme-leaf~ San Denys,
(spelled Dl0mslo)
DlomSlO et Eleutherlo
DlomSlO et Eleutherlo
'the brace of 'em
that Calvm never blacked out
en l'Isle)
That the wave crashed, wlurlmg the raft, then
Tearmg the oar from lus hand,
broke mast and yard-arm
And he was drawn down under wave,
The wmd tossmg,
Notus, Boreas,
as It were tlustle-down
Then Leucothea had pIty,
"mortal once
Who now IS a sea-god
v60""t'ou
THRONES DE LOS CANTARES
XCVI-CIX
XCVI
Kp~8:lJ.vo'J
xp~8efLvov
and the wave concealed her,
dark mass of great water
Aesthettclsme comme pohtlque d' eghse, hardly rehglon
& on the hearth burned cedar and Jumper
that should bear mm thru these dlafana.
Aether plult nUmlsmata
Tellus VOmlt cadavera,
Thusca quae a thure,
from the name of the Incense, m tlus provmce IS
- --....
...
...
., -'"
---
------- CHEN,
J.J-"
e che permutasse
With castled slups and Images Del Matns,
HERACLIUS, SIX, oh, two
Imperator slmul et sponsus,
found the "relp's" bUSiness unstuck,
that IS, Avars made Europe a desert,
Persians exterminated all ASia
In fact tlus Item, With that bIt from the Eparch's edict
wInch was still there for Kemaiin our tIme,
PANTA'REI, satd DuBellay translatIng,
the base shall we say, and the slIde of ByzantIum,
bags, baskets full of, presumably, cOinage,
and lured twenty thousand sclavons
And m the 7th Abslmarus Habdlmehch died
and Justinian caine back thru the aq ued llct
Franks out of Thrace m peIlplum,
Blood m Wailing St, rum'd by VIcarIOUS government
Hyaclntlum.s,
lleY«Ao~~ACUV why not fake purple,
vocabulary not Dr LIddell's,
chastised and brought Into the house (coom ben)
verberator et boms mulcator
1Coct8e:uea6w xed, e:tO'xo~t~e(ja(U
regIster all SIlk purchases over ten aurel
8exoc vO(ltO"(l&1'C:Uv (NIcole purpureas vestes) ~&: ~A(x1''"t"(OC
but the &vC'tL8&C; IS rather nice, Dr NIcole,
before the tt~ &u~&vo'J1'e:c; ~ EAct1'1'Ouv't'ec; 1'~'V 1'r,(l~'V
and the Idea of Just prIce IS somewhere,
the hagghng, somewhere,
also
&AOy(O"'"t'OUC; qUIte beautIfully used tzu3
tho' utopIan
or cluhI
babbler chuI
660
fittIng In, working together
The stathmon shd I hold 30 Iltras
and the mlna, as It IS called, shd I be 3,
And on great hohdays and the Lord's day KUP~(xX~;;~
not to open before 2 o'clock
by whatever 2 that was reckoned
8€u"t"epct~ d>pcx~
and at the second hour of mght
&acp(xA(~e:~V
661
8~CtO"1J~cx(veT(x~ but doesn't exactly
deahn' wIth ammals ~o't'6", (3o't"1Jp m the Foro Amastrlam
'rwv ~6lCUV 1'a~ oc£"t'((x~
some ammals are Imperfect
RE all contractors for fine work, plaster,
marble, askothurarlon, paInt & the rest of 'em
AEIITOTPrnN
an askos IS a leather bag,
wIth Inane loquaCIty hOIstIng the wages
cx;u~eL 't"ooc; ~LO'eOUc; O"xocL6"t'"'1)'t"t "t'WV AOyCJ)V
lubberly, westerly O'-r0tlUA((X
the stench of the profit motIve has covered theIr names
and that louse G burnt the PalatIne
and messed up the musIC
to speak clearly
<X1'CA1)O''t"toc, InsatIate 'X.CX'X.OUP'Y£~
ThIS IS not a mere stunt to lay fines
as IS found In the hodge-podge
60AOC; a round bUildIng
XOC(.LeX.poc arched over
all rXaq;>&AELocV to be unlIkely to fall
e~1teLp(tXV & experIenced
6e~eAtoc; the foundation, not wobbly (J'oc6p6c;
After all JUStInIan'S boy had bUIlt Santa Sopru.a
"vurry," says Pearson, N H ''In'erestln'''
out of odd hollows and sollds
[J.~ 't"O x1"r.~6tJ.evo" AO~O", slanty
There IS an Ideogram somewhere In MorrIson,
de Saumase, de ReItz
1tUP0C;, aepoc;, 68cx't'oc;, y~C;
662.
after Juhen d' Askalon fire, air, water, earth,
the old men on the swayIng 1:'pcx7te~~ov
~uPO"08€~CXL, raw leather
~CXA(xXCX1:'cXPLOt, softeners, second process
~upao7to LO (
lJ.&.yxt1te:~ the baker from lus four,
governors, oveners
No yugo-slav to propose to a gIrl
untIl he has planted trees, 50 olIves
(Ronme, tIns year)
tyXUxALO; 7tod8e:uO"L;
and the chaplaIns of cabarets
& that Nlcephoras
kolobozed the tetarteron
need not have applIed to the aureus
or caused NIcole to understand token cOInage
In the long war between eplskeptlks
and any andrarlon agorian kal banauson
(currently rendered as sob)
12% says NIcole, Illegal
xcx"t'Oc. "t'~v no L6"t'1J'"C'oc
(,,:(;)v ~wU)v)
acc the qualIty
Good-bye to the sun, Autumn IS dyIng
Xcx!p: 6 t'HAtO~
whom the ooze cannot blacken
Xcx!pe: clarore
665
shall be put on a Jackass and led through the streets qUIte
slowly,
flogged, shaved, and put out WIne shops
will close at 8 In the evemng
Anybody wantIng to put up a cupola must prove experIence
If a wall falls mSlde of ten years the buuder,
unless he can prove god's wrath must
put It up again at hiS own cost
To be t1bulary, ll1t1St know the Manu11c
to recite It, and the Baslhk.s, 60 books
and draw up an act In the presence, and be sponsored
by the pnmlCler and Ius colleagues
and have a clear Handschrlft
and be neIther babbler nor Insolent, nor sloppy In habIts
and have a style WIthout perfect style
might not notIce punctuatIon and phrases
that alter the sense,
and If he wrItes down a vanant
Ins sponsors Will be responsIble
Give lum tIme to show what he's got
And the smoke at hIs consecration,
mcense 6U(.L£lX(.LCX !V6l1tLOV Kup£ou
shows how Ius thought shd/ go Upward, VIdelIcet
And be fmed If he mlSS procession
alld the college shall go to Ius funeral
SILVERSMITHS may buy what pertams to theIr trade,
not copper,
ou [.L~V XlXAXOV
nor hnen save for theIr personal use
If laches (:let 't"L~) want to sell Jewelry
666
let the goldsnuth report to the Prefect &
Be sure It IS not for export
If they adulterate
Shall cost 'em a hand xe~poxo7t's(crf)c.u
to 86AO\' 7tOL6)V eta &o1j~LOV
If foreigners try to sell the two metals,
report It
If a sIlversmIth buy sacred vessels, Intact or otherwIse,
mm
let report tlus to the Eparch
and a goldsmIth report purchase of any unmarked
gold over one pound,
Work to be done tv 1:"~~ MeO'l1t;; on MaIn St
Not In the goldstnlth's home
And no one to be brought Into the guIld wIthout notIce
(aveu du prefet) What was the greek for aveu
In thiS Instance ~ e:la~ae:cut; TOU €7ttXpxou
rather mce use of aveu, Professor,
though you were loola.ng at oc'Jsu
From the Palace, half-circle that street IS,
endmg near the seven-towered castello
Bankers not to file corns
nor make false ones
Nor put a slave (80uAo\') In charge of theIr busIness
Koc1:'OCAArXXt7J<; < > XEX0lJ.(.l.s'Jov (double m)
If they do not notIfy counterfeIts that come In
and from whom
shall be flogged, shaved and extled
And In thls there can have been few mnovations
And before thIS was that affaIr of HabdImehch
Anno sexto Imperu, of the Second JustIman
"pacem"
XCVII
Mehk & Edward struck cOlnS-with-a-sword,
"Enur el Moumenm" (Systems p 134)
SIX and % to one, or the sword of the Prophet,
SILVER bemg m the hands of the people
"and for the first tIme In my hfe
"l had thousand $ bIlls In my hand-bag"
(Pnncess A)
after the 27/75 Spew Deal wangle
one billIon and whatso In dinars, Gothtc 8,
barleycorn, habbeh, tUSSUJ, damk, one nuthcal,
Shafy and Hanbal both say 12 to I,
Roman Chrlsters
"and by devhsh IngenuIty Abd-el-Mehk."
says, ut supra Paulus the Deacon, out of Theophanus,
& went decimal,
and the Prophet
set tax on metal
(1 e as dIstinct from) & the fat 'uns pay for the lean 'uns,
saId Imran,
& a kmg's head and lCNOUCH KHOR" perSIan,
optatIve, not dogmatic,
In fact as Sign of
corchahty and Royal benevolence
AND In 1859 a dlrhem "A H 40" W'lS
668
t'l have left Irak Its dInar",
& one fifth to God
Percussum forma pubhca corIum JANUS ACE
SaldLear . . notforcolnlng" . . Can'tgetme on that, I am Royal "
"Tlus leather" (Seneca)
Charlslus, cIted by Scahger,
Andoleon of Paeoma,
Gold scrupulum 20 aces A U 437
but now they play Wlth 12 draughtsmen,
the scrupulum one 9th of an aureus
B C 316
"Outre la hvre ponderable,"
2000 aces one double eagle,
MonSIeur GIbbon nearer than Mommsen at tlu.s pomt
or than Lenormant
"Qu'on decrle"
that was after Cahgula
And that the Senate cOIned after Nero
June 9th, 68,
LIBERTATI
to July of the next year
LIBERTAS RESTITUTA
[ s d as from Caracalla,
Vemce, Florence, Amalfi lnamtalned 12 to I ratIo,
one gold agaInst that m slIver,
leather stamped at the SIege of Faenza &
In Mathew ParIs for 1250 anno Domnu (Aug)
In AVlgnon wrote of transmutatIon, that IS, Papa Jollannes
wrote there of the transmutation of metals,
Danus, and Targltaus, nowt new In monopoly
Cicero tried to keep gold In the country Senatus Consulto,
"gravIsslme me consule Judlcavlt"
Theodosian Code thirteen, eleven, eleven,
[ s d from Caracalla
first fish & vadmal or cloth money, then "baug" rIngs
pseudo roman, and then, later, moslem
dInars, maravedIs,
kelt com & norse "herrmg", 8 stycas one scat
"That most powerful engIne" says Del Mar
King Offa at 6 and %
Alfred, finally, Athelstan 12,
Aftjf
~I!!!!~, ..I ~
= -- .
---~- .;;
-
~ honhead
Tu VUOI"
680
tho' orften I roam,
some gals IS better,
some wusser
than some
But that the free-born run wode Into slavery
thJ.s IS not good,
run wade m Job huntIng,
trus IS NOT good
681
Of Antomnus very lIttle record remaIns
682
as In Campo Martlo, In October
In Lacedaemon, dust to the uttermost
and at Rhodos, the sun's car IS thrown Into the sea,
rubbIng theIr weapons wIth parsley,
Flamen Portuahs
"mter mortua Jam et verba sepulta" 18
Ii
II
And that Athelstan set up gUIlds there
kadzu, arach.1dl, acero,
•iff
not he down
XCVIII
Make It new
Ta e; A£yu7t~oU cp&'p~cxx(X
Leucothea gave her veIl to Odysseus
Xp6voc;
7tveulJ-C'l .&e&v
XC'lL epc.uc; aocpLcxc;
The Temple (hleron) IS not for sale
Gettmg the feel of It, of hIS soul,
wh.J.J.e they were miling a fuss about Helen
No man In Greece wIll sell a slave out of hIS country
ne quaesarlS
Mmes, quarrIes, salt-pans, of the state,
a guIld system In ConstantInople
IUS Itahcum, more Sabello,
no more black shawls In the PIazza
more Sabello, for Demeter
"Ut faCIas pulchram"
there IS no SIght WIthout fire
Thmlllng theIr oar-blades
.&!voc .&CXAcXO'01)~
notlnng there but an awareness
In :ByzantIum 12% for a nullenmum
The Manchu at 36 legal, theIr EdIct
the next pass
Anselm that some IS Incarnate awareness,
thus trlmtas, some remaIns spIrItus
"The body IS mSIde" Thus Plotlnus,
But Gemisto "Are Gods by lularltas" ,
and theIr speed In communication
et In nebulas slmlghanza,
Ka.&' 6~OLCUcrr." Deorum
a fanned flame In their mOVing
must fight for law as for walls
- Herakleitos' parenthesIs-
And that Leucothoe rose as an Incense bush
- Orchamus, Babylon-
reSIstIng Apollo
Patience, I wIll come to the CommISSIoner of the Salt Works
In due course
Est deus In nobiS and
They st111 offer sacrifice to that sea-gull
est deus In nobIs
Xp~8e:lLvOV
She beIng of Cadmus hne,
the snow's lace IS spread there lIke sea foam
But the lot of'em, Yeats, Possum and Wyndham
had no ground beneath'em
Oragehad ~
Per ragione vale
Black shawls for Demeter
('Eleven hterates" wrote Senator CuttIng,
It and, I suppose, DWIght L Morrow"
Black shawls for Demeter
The cat talks - (.L~(U - wIth a greek InflectIon,
Mohammed In sympathy ((IS part of relIgIon"
SIster to Phoebus,
And some wIth the tone of bIrd talk
"NOI altrl borghesl
could not speak effiCIently to the crowd
In pIazza,"
saId the Consighere, "we thought we could control Mussohm "
686
then-rexvl'j •
fan l hua4
If yOll don't swallow theIr buncombe
you won't have to drIve 'em out
688
who use no connectIon, grIts In the mortar,
ImpedIments
You, I mean you should know why,
m
and start new after an Inadvertence
Ii 1
4
shen
I
that IS the root of It
--L-A
h3 4 • on the lOSlde
:t t'aJ.4
.lJi p'mg
2
m
that Ins feelIngs have the colour of nature
en
I
JB ch'mg
2
Ch'14 ..
order ~
"Parents naturally hope their sons will be gentlemen "
j£ cheng
Or pretenchngs
II Ten thousand years say men have clans and descendents
III There are mstncts Avoid htlgatlon
IV WIthout graIn you WIll not eat or tend stlkworms,
ImperIal paradIgm was by ploughing
V and then waste not,
Nor scrape Iron off the pOInt of a needle
VI Ten thousand years to Improve the habIts of scholars
"as an ox WIth trappIngs'
or as a mule WIth a fancy saddle,
That the books you read shall be
cheng
kIng
ut supra
And your pals fit to read 'em
Sixteen bitched by an (%) Interest rate
ByzantIum rather more durable
"from fib to cheek whose palate cost so dear"
MISS Mitford (or one-ov'um) thought thIS was "gothIc"
ParadIso, XIV thIS lIght does not dIs-unIfy
VII No need of contraptIons
VIII State the laws In clear language
IX Iu-an tIed the stray cow and fed It
The Xth clause IS for
ne ultra crepldam,
But estabhsh It What do children know about eVII;l
And xvth Not a fixed charge .:::j!..
ThiS IS from Mang Tzu ..lID.
XVI YIeld not to anger
Xllth "As for those who he In a law-court'"
(In 1670 Kang HSI) whereto long ChIng
"That you should hear It unblurred" ..IlL
DelIberate converse ~
and WIth tho colour of Nature ~.
long Crung, Canto 61
The EdIct ~
"Each year In the Elder Spring, that IS the first month of It,
The herald shall InVIte your complIance
There are SIX rItes for the festival
and that all should converge'
And not to lose Me for bad temper
XCIX
Till the blue grass tum yellow
and the yellow leaves float In aIr
And long Cheng (Canto 6 I)
of the hne of Kang HI
by the sIlk cords of the sunlIght
non msurua,
2nd year
2nd month
2nd day
SHENG U, the EdIct
Each year In the elder sprIng, that IS the first month
of the sprIng tIme,
The herald shall1nclte yrJ complIance
There are SIX rItes for festIval
and 7 InstructIons
that all converge as the root tunI pen3
the root veneratIon (from Mohamed no popery)
To dIscrImInate tlungs
ShIh2 s sohd
2
mu a pattern
faI laws
kung! publIC
szul prIvate
great and small
(That Odysseus' old rna mIssed Ins conversatIon)
To see the hght pour,
that IS, toward Slncerltas
of the word, comprehens1ve
KOINE ENNOIA
all astute men can see It encIrclIng
Chou saw It, my SIRE also,
WIth splendour,
CatholIcIty,
Woven In order,
as on cords In the loom
cognome, IndIrlzzo (plenI hu4
SIncerIty, slmphclty, red South, and nalvete
meng2 , the people, the many, the menee,
the perlshmg
Sage men have plans,
slmphclty a thousand generatIons, no man can change
The Sage Emperor's heart IS our heart,
HIs government IS our government
yao2 hIgh, hSlao3 dawn
The Venerated Emperor
watched thIngs grow WIth affectIon,
HIs thought was not dry on a shelf
Not exhaustIble, on sale In a (kueI4) shop
That Job was the swan's flIght (hung2 yeh45)
To trace out and to bInd together
From sonshlp thIs goes to clan
and to avoId lItigatIons
out of the field, from the trees,
Food the root
IS
7°0
e basta
There are five relativities state, family and frlel1dshlp,
amlcltla
Dolt, clear mUSICian, the precise man and the clumsy
There are Four Books and the 5 relations
Fools fall for weapons and pOlson,
Y Oll are not all of you IdIotS,
There are a lot of you who wIll not
fall for thiS hokulU
But your females hke to bum Incense
and buzz round In crowds and proceSSIons
(Mr Baller arumadverts on the Similanties
In all prlestcraft
(vIde subject "MISSIons" In Canto whatever)
7°1
Greed defrauds It
Some want more than they can get In a lIfetIme
702
In the four cOlgns of the UnIverse,
heaven, earth or whatsodam,
No handle,
no clear kuan3
cha04 kuan3
care for control,
But to hve as flowers reflected,
as moonhght,
free from all posseSSIveness m affectIons
but, as Chu says, egoIsttcal
As to buildtng temples for the benefit of contractors
or Images for the benefit of the gilders,
The Incense market w111 benefit
from your wIves' red and green dresses
As they run about mId rlff-raff
acquIrIng merIt by comedy
or by tragedy after fool vows
To release souls wIth burnt paper ~
Bhudda> dIVIne is
to be bought wIth a few bIts of slIver ~
And enraged If hIs prIests do not get It:>
But If the scholar wants by one sruff to force up
hIs reputatIon
or has eye on graIn-cut In exchange
agIotage, profit motIve,
m and out of the yamen, horwng In on officIals
medtate hand-outs and hand-overs
falSe fire-word sWIsh-swash
& not one dot of decency In hIS conduct
a mere drIbble wIth an eX-Mortar-board label
che yang tl Jen
a low-flow and a hu2 flow
a rIce dog-head pal lUI for rUIn
An Ting made rules and observed them
2 schools for government preparatIon
ClassIc and Govt BusIness,
And they were neat as a bird's beak, hIs students
and In Han tIme was Wen?" W eng I
held office In Fourstreams
pen
ne ultra crepidam yeh
As Dolmetsch or BIg Top
& that scholars read Odes
and tum conversation toward JustIce
hSlu4 ts'an In the home
2
JIs an omen
The plan IS In nature
rooted
Commg from earth, times (ch'anga) respected
Their powers converglng
(chu four assemble
There IS a must at the root of It
not one man's mere power,
Thrn lngh-Iow, parch and dampness
Htgh, dry for panlcled nullet
Damp, low for rice (non-glutinous) and paddy
wu2 rnn Ch'12 ymg2 pe1'4 h4
(Interest)
not for a qwck buck at hIgh Interest
the legal rate does not eAhaust thIngs
(Byzance dId better)
Don't burn to abandon productIon and go Into tradIng,
DIg up root to chase branches
vIde Michelet & Ambrose "De TobIa"
The rate In Byzance was lower,
as can contInuous far
(que fa doure)
Estabhshed that everybody got some education
AND you had lIterate COIlfucians
m the burocracy,
Focus of men of abIl.1ty sohdIfied our good customs
Shut out graceful bIgots
and moderate thunderIng phallol
(thIs IS a mIstranslatIon)
Strong, weak, to one cooperatIon,
our SAGE FOREBEAR examIned to
stImulate anagogico
and more espeCIally magmfied schools-
everytlung that wdj brIng up esprIt de corps
en! mI
~~,
tramed lus officers not to slant government
and to be ready for anytlung
I stj the baSIC In rus own practIce,
then village usage
to see what style for the castIng
FIhahty and fratennty are the root,
7 10
Talents to be consIdered as branches
PreCIse ternunology IS the first Implement,
dIsh and contaIner,
After that the 9 arts
AND study the classIc books,
the straIght hIstory
all of It candId
Be frIends wIth straIght officers
cmao I communIcate,
They are your commumcations,
a hasty chIrrp may raIse rwn
You, soldIers, cIVlhans,
are not headed to be professors
The basIs IS man,
and the rectIficatIon of officers
But the four TUAN
are from nature
Jen, 1, h, chili
N at from descrIptIons In the school house,
They are the scholar's Job,
the gentleman's and the officer's
7
All I want IS a generous spIrIt In customs
1st! honest man's heart demands sane currIcula
7 11
(no, that IS not textual)
Let mm analyze the trIck programs
and fake foundatlons
The fu Jen recelve-; heaven, earth, middle
and grows
7 12
c
tlHas packed the Supreme Court
so they wIll declare anythIng he does constItutIonal t)
DAMN IT
George Second encouraged,
the tanff of 1816 murdered Indigo
Freemen do not look upward for bounty
Barley, rIce, cotton, tax-free
wIth hIlarItas
LetIzIa, Dante, Canto 18 a relIgIon
Vtrtu enters
Buona da se volonta
Lume non e, se non dal sereno
stone to stone~ as a fIver descendIng
the sound a gemmed lIght,
form IS from the lute's neck
Jackson 83, 83 Adams,
no Jealousy ill the North at that tIme
"further errors of MonSIeur de TocqueVllle"
"Taney In place of Duane"
Out of Erebus
Where no ffilnd moves at all
In crystal funnel of aIr
Out of l1eavIness
And that all gates (bah, gate) are holy
Pandects I 8 out of GalUS
Consul for 4th tIme, December 7th
To WIndsor we owe three years PEACE
AgaSSIZ, Kung, to aVOId the encIrclement,
La France, malson close
"an' moh relIgIons",
saId LIghtfoot
"thanna dawg 15 got haIrs on Its back"
So that the mIst was qUIte whIte on that part of the sea-coast
Le Portel, Phaecla
and he dropped the scarf In the tIde-rIps
KREDEMNON
that It should float back to the sea,
alld that qUIckly
DEXATO XERSI
wIth a fond hand
AGERTHE
But theIr techllique IS two lIes at once
so tllere be no profit In conflIct,
CODE functIoned 111 all LatIn countrIes
tIll even Bulgars had theIr Gesetzbuch
In JustIn's vIllage
"NOll della" (Verona)
and J AustIn, an Englander,
attempted to separate law from moral plulosophy
Of whIch the value
saId Frank HarrIS, they deal In thIngs,
always, the value of whIch IS unknown
No greek sells a slave out of Hellas
SIlk news came up, by nlonks, out of IndIa,
ShIngled flakes 011 a luoth's Wll1g Inonetary (218 aD)
comnllSSIon Bellsarlus
forbade cavalry to dalnage any Inan's stanchng graIn
"NO, not THAT boat"
shouted hlS captaI11 at Ratto, when the latter had
nIcely aImed hIS torpedo
at a Lloyd Triestino
m wluch wops held certaIn shares
Wall.ted her (%) Interest, De Stael dld
ItMore" saId Santayana ICfor Rome than three Napoleons"
I suppose he Ineant than Nap had done for ParIS
Nel mezzo r::Jt the crystal,
empIre
Kuan :>t
Mmg II
Double It
Kuan :>'t
Mlng DJ)
DUIch das Bankhaus Pacelh kompromlttlert
and B Swan thought cIVIl war was the only means of gettIng
(from Sparua.rds)
five bucks (8) for one buck's worth of petrol
He'd been on ((one of them boats"
OLYMPIAD
236
A pyre In Athens, by Peregrinus
Who dtd not share Plarr's pOInt of VIew,
born In Parlon
Coelum tecto, Deus nee vendlt,
Terra lecto, sed largitur
and that Carltas leads to serenIty
Stead asked Douglas about the rupee
WIth theIr own gods to lead them
nor SIn by Inlsnanung
out of slm.lhtude mto gatherIng
"Mortal blame has no sound In her ears"
UntIl Remusat "Has noe', lCAqulnas has not
"bIen rendue compte
des COIUlalssances a prIori JJ
720
to the dIstress of the servitu
"RUSSIa an ally"
saId the old COmtnlsSloner (Agra)
Neque aurum dlhgunt
"that STICKS
In
my
throat"
Gardner, A G
Aug 1,1914
also specIfic
Beauclerc the first norman duke who could read,
Half the land, and slaves or how much
belonged to the temples
as Juhan notIced ("Apostate")
2 mI1hon dIed for InvestIture,
Wlueron
7.2.1
nous to arlston autou
as hght Into water compenetrans
that IS pathema
ouk aplustatal"
thus Plotmus
per plura mafana
nelther weIghed out nor hIndered,
aloof
I Jan '58
CI
FIndIng scarcely anyone save MonSIeur de Remusat
who could understand hIm
(Jumpers, south sIde) M Talleyrand
spruce and fir take the North
ChalaIs, Aubeterre,
snow-flakes at a hand's bleadth, and raIn
Trees hne the banks, mostly wIllows Kublal,
Te Te of Ch'eng, called TImur, 1247, came luther
Forest thru Ice mto emerald
~~
you can enter It sIdeways only, TSO 1'J: IS here named
73°
they want to burst out of the urnverse
amms herbldas rlpas
Antorunus,
Juhan
would not be worslupped
(ISo tluck the dead could not fall"
Marcelhnus
"dead chap ahead of Ine wIth Ius head splIt
could not fall "
XXIII, 6, and there also
Assyrlos fines Ingressus,
BUllt grananes, sueta annona,
naturally labled ((apostate"
Quem mlhl febrIcula erlpwt,
Domlt1an, Infaustus
trIed to buy peace WIth money
73 1
ellI
1850 gt objectIon to any honesty In the WhIte House
,56, an M C from Cahforma
killed one of the walters at the WIllard
2.2nd Brooks thrashed Sumner In Camera Senatus
"respectful of our own rIghts and of others"
for whIch decent View he was ousted
Homestead versus kolschoz
Rome versus Babylon
no sense of qUIddIty In the sovrelgnty
1 e the power to Issue
73 2
Protocol Jan 183 I BelgIum neutral
In perpetuity
Trying (T C P) SO years later to keep some of the
non-mterest-bearlng etc
In clrculatlon
as currency
StIll market, no use to brokers
France, after Talleyrand started
one war In Europe
Bismarck no war after '70, that was lus aIm
He saId No more after '70
CaSImir put Napoleon back on lus Column
12th AprJ1, Journal des Debats,
1831
that bitch Mme de Lleven
that bitch Mme de Stael
Bolivar dead, who else was there'
Tolosa, 1919, GubbiO,
on pouvalt manger
"Europe" saId Plcabla exhausted
by the conquest of Alsace Lorraine
T to Broghe Ap 9, '33
as I recall It there was no such thIng as pubhc
oplmon (VIenna.)
Mettermch destroyed Marla Theresa Maremma
Hroosla,
"tranne nella casa del re"
:B MussollM
to some chap from Predapplo
not yet, so far as I know, written down
733
Lugubrious Knole,
Capture of Warsaw
ParIS, at Palals Royal
"where they are rather badly off for socIety"
de Vaux talked of nothIng but bullfights
not only 32 mIllIon subjects, but
pretend to govern all Europe
That he (the ArchbIshop) had not qUIte the grasp
St Leu, Beauharnals, Tascher
given to M's'lle Hortense by the CItIzen Talleyrand
"a sapphire, and a bit of the cross
true cross, exhumed WIth Charlemagne's skeleton
Mme de Genhs
SIX pamtlngs by me, fruits, Insects, ammals
Bismarck thought centralIzatIon bItched France
Ivar Kreuger, according to Lorrimer's paper
a tItan, and more than,
EdIshu added a zero to the number of Krauts murdered
In Poland
1831, In New York State that debtors be not Imprisoned
"Last superior 0 UT of hIS cabInet"
John QUInn rei LanSing's departure
and at three 0' clock In the mornIng
my ex-partner
It
WUZ
sekkertary
of State"
1841 Fllhmore Wolverme bUIlt In PIttsburg
for a lake parIty
Telegraph bIll 3 March '43
734
"Not WIth a cold tlung"
saId GrIffith,
"can't move 'em"
ut delectet
735
the chastIty of the Empress,
Emperor thInks brlts weary of
ConstItutIon,
The french are a SIngular people
Napoleon's taxes less than % now at BergheIm JJ
737
CIV
N a Kh1 talk made out of wInd nOIse,
And North Klu, not to be heard amId sounds of the forest
but to fit m WIth them unperceIved by the game,
But when the young lout was sellIng the old lout
the Idea of betraying Mlhallovltch
The aIr of the room became heavy so that young S
Reslgned from the F 0 and went mto the CIty" -
II
semtna
Flames wIthered, the WInd blew confusIon
739
BaSSlnlO left greek tags In hIS margIns
mouldIng the cadence
Uncle Carlo purged the mouth of that fIver
the RubIcon
WIth russet salls (WIeland)
at the landIng
A hck here, a lIck there
and at least got the torpedo boat overland,
The Pollok was hooked by false promIse
"black sea
"help by the black sea"
only a pollok could have swallowed that promIse
Of the blue sky and a Wild-cat,
Pltonessa
The small breasts snow-soft over trIpod
under the cloud
the three VOIces
And stopped (In lUCId Intervals)
the dIggIng of ll1etals,
Once gold was
by ants
out of burrows
not
pao three •
Can you tell pao three from pao four, a Wild cat
da radlce torblda
IS no clarIty
74°
And who try to use the nund for the senses
dnve screws With a hammer
maalesh
Adolf funous from perceptIon
But there 15 a blmdness that comes from Inslde-
they try to explam themselves out of nulhty
"Beg the gentleman to go home AT ONCE
say I wIll call on lum "
THAT IS pohteness
And the cap for a forester
showmg nuance
19 10 Pears' soap for lamas
Les Douze unconscIous of Fordle,
Among medicos AmbroIse Pare
before Zeus, SIX blueJays before mm
THEMIS against leagues of pnnces
Said Yo-Yo
"What part ob yu IZ deh poEM) ,"
of the vIcinage, by hiS peers
And to raise up gutlds
In tIme of the moon longs
mitred by consecration of hght
"Wash yu feet)
,,,
tread strange 1an
LUIglin lull paths
chews wheat at sunrise,
that gram, lus communion
And If the stars be but UnIcorns,
hght for lasso
Yseult IS dead, and Walter,
74 1
and Fordle,
fatnlhares
"And how Iny aIde friend
-eh-eh
HOWells~
can tCetcetera
Remy's word was "nllleSlcnnes"
WIlham's monoceros,
vIde lus book plate
The productIon IS the beloved
And Gladstone took a httle packet of tea to
MIss What's-her-name, Palmerston's fancy
but dtd not sell England
for four mIllIon qUid to (deleted
Suez Canal shares
SaId HollIs (ChrIstopher)
Reglus (deleted) ProfessorsInps
for falsificatIon
and Coke dIsappeared from currIcula
Von Bulow got news from the agenCIes
France betrayed Talleyrand,
ItPlckln' daIsIes" "He (Wells) won't have
atl opInIon "
Thus Orage respected belatedly ICNlcht Boshelt"
saId Margherlta RegIna, or one of 'en1, ICDUMMhelt"
Mirabeau had It worse, OVId much worse In Pontus
liN0 sooner In Goa
than they started uprootIng SpIce trees,
Intorcetta's portraIt IS snll there In SICllY
Wlth an unreadable text on Ius fan
74 2
Hence Webster, VoltaIre and LeIbnltz
by phyliotaAls
In leaf-graIn
But In VenIce more affirmatIons
of IndivIdual men
From Selvo to Franchettl, thall any elsewhere
Po hke a map beneath us
"Very cleverly draIned"
saId the prIsoner's escort
Larranaga
saw fashIon an element
No SCIence wIthout clear defiwtlons
al1d there IS a style of the perIod
"My Chauncey Alcot
If you'll bee
my Molly
0'"
Moral scruple unknown to finanCIers
at THAT tIme
a common custom In bUSIness
Lukie Ionldes WIll do, a greek wIll
ANYTHING
tIll he gets Twenty Thousand
(meaning qUid sterhng)
after that, he sees that It pays to be honest
Pulchra documenta
Bulow from agencies
"don't waste tIme getting mto papers"
Get the agencies
and to summarIze
743
Gold was In control of the Pontlfex,
standard at Byzance
and EI Melek
untIl 1204
kalos kagathos
Del Mar cItes 12 cases of tIckets
as from Iron III Spartan cOInage
In splendour of blue-Jays
Cythera PAGGKALA
Mond kIlled the Enghsh RevIew
and Ford went to ParIS (an Interval)
VIllage festIval on the Quatorze
BrIts paId out of french pocket
one whole Installment,
Alex, the debts of ills soldIers
And as for what happened after the lang lost exclUSIvIty
even Del Mar gasps wIth astonIshment
McNaIr WIlson, Larranaga, or TremaIne at 2 In the mornIng
lIFer some gawd damn fool reason
no more sense than pIll box hats where mIght be GaIns-
boroughs,"
referrIng to prescrIttlblle
or
What a government usefully COULD do
False middles serve neIther comlnerce
nor the NOOS In actiVIty
i
That fine old word (StInk Saunders' word) tt an Independence"
penyeh
744
Homestead versus kolschoz,
advIce to farms, not control
tessera, Monreale,
Topaz, God can SIt on
For 30 years nothIng of Interest occurred In that country
but the Burgomclster's Schwager
mIstrusted Fetzen Papltr
Where deer's feet make dust In shadow
at wood's edge
curet cogltarc perennla
foung houang 11 I
745
cv
Feb 1956
Is dus a divagatIon
Talleyrand saved Europe for a century
France betrayed Talleyrand,
Gerlnany, Bismarck
And Muss saved, reIn salvavlt,
In Spam
11 salvabl1e
semma motuum
From Sulnlona
the hon-fount-
Inust be Sulnl0na, OVldIO'S,
Federico noted the hawk form
and no one has yet translated "II Marescalco",
(Cesena, Zezena de be" e colonne)
Mozart obit aetat 35,
ChrlStlan's hat and gloves so clearly paInted
(Herblet)
the corrIdor % an Inch WIde,
must be somewhere
Itmoyens d' eXistence Inconnus "
Anselm tcMonologlon" SCIlpSlt, 1063
"non spano, sed saplentla"
not In space but In knowIng
non pares, not equal In dignity
rerUln naturas
Do not usc th( lr lnathcI11atlc~ to thInk "\\lth
vera Imago
al1d VIa nllnd IS the nearest you'll get to It,
ttrattonalem"
sald Anselm
GUIdo "lntenzlone"
Rado,
luna,
747
speculum non e~t Imago,
nl1rrour, not nnage,
Sapor, the flavour,
pulchrItudo
ne dlVlSlblhs Intellectu
not to be spIlt by syllogIzatlon
to the blessed Isles (lnsuhs fortunatls)
fertur
quasI apes, as bees alvearla,
uraruci temph
lumlne ut amlctus
wIth hght as an army-cloak
Canterbury well, above Capua
by Anselm's dIrectIon,
he saId dIg there
Puteus CantaurIenSls
nIne mIles approx east of Capua
And he saId II eh
I mIght eat a partrIdge "
So we scuttled all day
and no partrIdge
TIll the stable boy met a nlartln
that had caught one
et sake et soke on strollde
on streame on woden
In stream and forest
all other Itbertates,
consuetudInes, Port of SandwIch
Justice centrahzatIon,
COIn IS the symbol of equIty
Rochester nave bUIlt bv the IOlllbards,
thL hJ~h hall and tht.. carvlng
Rufus raIsed rlllt ) to 40
u~u ttrrac
Unltas Charltatl"
conc;ultudo dlvLrsa,
HavIng lost the \vlsdoll1 of Khan
but for s0111cthlllg not brute fot Cl 111 govcmnlcnt
Itordlne"
Boanlund v<..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(DallL yratld 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"
accenslo
Anselm versus damn Rufus
"Ugly l a bore,
Pretty, a whore 1"
brother Anselm IS peSSlmlsttc,
dtgestion weak,
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°
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 of com
With a CromInelyn at the breech-block
or a del Valle,
ThiS IS what the SWIne haven't got
wIth theIr
1tr1vouPY(cx
75 I
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>
Apehota
752.
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,
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
Out of gold lIght floodIng the perIstyle
Trees open In Paros,
Wrute feet as Carrara's whIteness
In XorOl
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',
In Akragas
Coke Inst 2
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
receIved It
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 Normand'
de la foresta 14
are yellow-green after sunset H
In pohtique capaCIty a kIng dIes not 3
anCIent eit franchtes,
ne InJ uste vexes
progressus ostendunt
Magna Charta, chap m
periplum, aSSlse In perlplum
and Kung also was nunister
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
759
de la plus beale
& of braIn-wash
I stj the symbolJ
corruptIon of Symbol
then the InvaSion of Bede's time
and the hog-wash WIth 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,
the short taIls
Was new com 1560,
'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
dus hght
as a nver
In Kung, In Ocellus, Coke, AgassIZ
*
•
pen yeh
salvul1l conductull1
18 dIe Jul II, 18 E I
dIe dCClll10ctavo
was 15 000 three score
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
Olent a gUlcr
& If contrary shall be undone
tlus nlent tenus
and read per an, deux fOIts
tWIce a year
mIses ne prlses 12 72
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
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
Henry III
1216-'72
E I 1272-13°7
Artlcul a SOl1 pcopll.
CESTASCAVOIR
& 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~
28th Edward
SOlent c~ll us
trol~
prodcs cht. vahcrs
au autrc~ aVlscs
for "Vlerge" sec Fleta, 12 tUlles rOWld about the KIng's house
HastIngs Dover HIthe RUlnney SandwIch
It..arnlng decayeth
Rot, parI 50 E
damnable cUSt01l1S Introduc of 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
77°
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
77 I
and Sellalo
painted that goddess
Ie Concord del fine
Coke
O'UlJ.~OC(VlXf,
In the 43rd of ElIzabeth
The fine cannot omIt ascun chose
contInuance solonques Ie purpot
CHARDE dIt estre certalne
In quex Ie terre demeure
(hver dlt)
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
772.
"In grateful resentment to Wadsworth, 20 shillings
May 15th,
Town House In Hartford
Charles, God's Grace, '62
Brewen, Canfield,
a Body polltique
and meere mOClon
Ordeyned, heIrs, successors, W oollcott, 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
HOWARD
WIng lIke feldspar
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
Jury trial was m Athens
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
phyllotaxls
Over wIcket gate
INO Iv&> Kadmela
Erlgena, Anselm,
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
Thy qUIet house
The crozier's curve runs In the wall,
The harl, feather-wlute, as a dolphIn on sea-bnnk
777
Yellow IrIS In that rIver bed
yueh45
nllng'"
nl04S
hSlen I
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 JUll1 per
Fehx nUpslt,
an end
In love WIth Khaty
now dead for 5000 years
779
KALLIASTRAGALOS
KaAAw"crTpayaAo')
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,
a
these fragments -shored agamst rUln,
pray
it,..
1IA
chmg4
pray
There IS power
AWOl or Komaclu,
the oval moon
Notes for eXI
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 of 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
"Very few mterested"
N to Talleyrand, "rn cIVlhzatlon "
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
Com'd gold
also bumped off 8000 ByzantInes
Edtctum prologo
Rothar
FromCXII
owl, and \vagtall
and huo 3-hu2 , the fire- 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 -111 un. 31111
If we 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
3i yu
4
lPl ho
2
ArtemISIa
Arundinarla
Wmnowed In fate's tray
~ neath
'qff// luna'
eXIII
Thru the 12 Houses of Heaven
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~
79°
CXIV
"Pas meme Freron
h'lls personut.
pas meme Freron,"
"I hate no-one," sald VoltaIre
"not even Freron "
And before Mr Law scarcely 300
and now 1800 great vessels
and he, John Law, dIed ill Vemce m poverty
We far from recognIzmg mdebtedness
"not even Tom Pick"
"You respect a good book, contradlctmg It-
the rest aren't worth powder"
Tenthnls trailing
79 1
caught tn rock 1\ under \\ ave
-* mu
4S
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
79 2
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 of cruelty,
are we to wnte a genealogy of the demons)
And on July 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 of nurrors
Quelque toue
"au Louvre en quelque toue"
to reign, to dance In 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,
but said "blsogna esser portato "
The kIndness, mfimte, of her hands
Sea, blue under chffs, or
u
W illtam murmunng "Shgo m heaven when the mISt came
to Tlgulho And that the truth 15 m kmdness
793
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
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 of laws"
(111ucchlO dlleggl)
Lltterae nlhtl sanantes
JUStInIan'S,
a tangle of works unfinIshed
795
Tho' 111) errors and Vv reck. 'i he about nlC
And I anl not a denl1god,
I calulot ll1ak.e It cohere
Iflove be not 111 the hOUSL there IS nothIng
The VOIce of fanl1ne unheard
How caIne beauty agaInst tlu~ bl'lckne~~,
TVv Ice 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 If my 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)
To 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
[Ctrca 1941]
799
N ow ~l1n rIses ill Ran1 sIgn
WIth clack. of batllboo agalI1~t olIve ,>tock
We have heard the blrd<; pral~lng Janncqull1
and the blacl cat's tad IS e'\.alted
800
Notes for CXVII etseq
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