The Cantos

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other books by EZRA POUND COLLECTED SHORTER POEMS SELECTED POEMS 1908 1959 SELECTED CANTOS OF EZRA POUND DRAFTS AND FRAGMENTS OF CANTOS CX CXVII PISAN CANTOS THE CLASSIC ANTHOLOGY DEFINED BY CONFUCIUS LITERARY ESSAYS OF EZRA POUND ( edued by T S Eltot) SELECTED PROSE 1909 1965 (edtted by Wtlllam Cookson) ABC OF READING TRANSLATIONS OF EZRA POUND SOPHOCLES WOMEN OF TRACHIS THE SELECTED LETTERS OF EZRA POUND 1907 19 11 (edt ted by D D Patge)

THE CANTO§ OF EZRA POUND

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Collected edltlon (Cantos I 84) Fmt published m I9 54 Second Impression I957 New Collected edmon (Cantos

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published m I964 Second Impression 1968 Revised Collected editiOn (Cantos I published m I975 by Faber & Faber Limited 3 Queen Square London WCI

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Prmted m the Umted States of Amenca

© 1975 The Ezra Pound Literary Property Trust ISBN o 57 r 04897 8 (hard bound edit!on) ISBN o 57I 04898 6 (Faber Paperbacks) All nghts reserved Except for bnef passages quoted m a newspap " .. That's xt, healthy but vermmous And one time m Kashmtr,

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In the houseboats, wxth the turquoxse, A pxle three feet h1gh on the boat floor, And they'd be there all day at a bargam For ten bobs' worth of turquoiSe

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XX slender, quas1 tmnula,

L1gur' a01de S1 no'us ve1, Domna don plus m1 cal, Negus vezer mon bel pensar no val "

Between the two almond trees flowermg, The v1el held close to h1s s1de , And another s'adora " .. Possum ego naturae non mem1msse tuae I "

Qu1 son Properz1o ed Ov1dto

The boughs are not more fresh where the almond shoots take thetr March green And that year I went up to Fretburg, And Rennert had satd Nobody, no, nobody Knows anythmg about Proven�al, or If there IS anybody, It's old Levy " And so I went up to Fretburg, And the vacation was JUSt begmnmg, The students gettmg off for the summer, Fretburg 1m Breisgau, And everythmg clean, seemmg clean, after Italy And I went to old Levy, and 1t was by then 6 3 0 m the evemng, and he tra1led half way across Fre1burg before dmner, to see the two stnps of copy, Arnaut's, settant'uno R supenore (Ambrostana) Not that I could smg h1m the musiC And he said Now IS there anythmg I can tell you71 " And I sa1d I dunno, sxr, or .. Yes, Doctor, what do they mean by And he sa1d Noxgandres'

no$gandres':l ''

NOigandres '

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" You know for seex mon's of my hfc " E:tfery mght when I go to bett, I say to myself " Notgandres, eh, n01gandres, " Now what the DEFFIL can that mean' " Wmd over the ohve trees, ranunculae ordered, By the cleat edge of the rocks The water runs, and the wmd scented w1th pme And With hay-fields under sun-swath Agostmo, Jacopo and Boccata You would be happy for the smell of that place And never tired of bemg there, etther alone Or accompamed Sound as of the mghtmgale too far off to be heard Sandro, and Boccata, and Jacopo Sellaxo , The ranunculre, and almond, Boughs set m espaher, Ducc10, Agostmo , e l'olors The smell of that place - d'enoz Axr movmg under the boughs, The cedars there m the sun,

ganres

Hay new cut on hxll slope, And the water there m the cut Between the two lower meadows , sound, The sound, as I have said, a mghtmgale Too far off to be heard And the hght falls, remzr, from her breast to thighs He was playmg there at the palla Pansma - two doves for an altar - at the wmdow, ..

E'l Marchese Stava per dtvenzr pazzo

.after 1t all "

And that was when Troy was down

And they came here and cut holes m rock, Down Rome way, and put up the ttmbers ,

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And came here, condxt Atesten .. Peace' keep the peace, Borso " And he sa1d Some bitch has sold us (that was Ganelon) .. They wont get another such tvory " And he lay there on the round h1ll under the cedar A httle to the left of the cut (Este speakxng) By the s1de of the summ1t, and he sa1d ..I have broken the horn, b1god, I have " Broke the best 1vory, l'olofans "

•• Tan

And he sa1d

mare fustes' " pulhng h1mself over the gravel,

" B1god ' that buggar 1s done for, .. They wont get another such 1vory " And they were there before the wall, Toro, las almenas, (Este, N1c Este speakxng) Under the battlement (Ep1 purgo) peur de la hasle, And the K.mg saxd •• God what a woman'

My God what a woman " saxd the Kmg telo ng1do •• Sister' " says Ancures, •• 's your sister' "

AI£ left that town to Elvira, and Sancho wanted It from her, Toro and Zamora " Bloody spamard '

Neestho, le'er go back

xn the autumn " .. Este, go' damn you " between the walls, arras, Paxnted to look hke arras Jungle Glaze green and red feathers, JUngie, Basts of renewal, renewals , R.lsmg over the soul, green vmd, of the JUngle, Lozenge of the pavement, clear shapes, Broken, dtsrupted, body eternal,

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wuderness of renewals, confusiOn Bas1s of renewals, subs1stence, Glazed green of the JUngle , Zoe, Maroz1a, Zothar, loud over the banners, Glazed grape, and the cnmson, HO BIOS, cos1 Elena vedt, In the sunhght, gate cut by the shadow,

And then the faceted a1r Floatmg Below, sea churmng shmgle Floatmg, each on mv1stble raft, On the htgh current, mvlstble flutd, Borne over the plam, recumbent, The nght arm cast back, the nght wnst for a ptllow, The left hand hke a calyx, Thumb held agamst finger, the thtrd, The first fingers petal'd up, the hand as a lamp, A calyx From toe to head The purple, blue-pale smoke, as of mcense , Wrapped each

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burnous, smoke as the ohbanum's,

Swtft, as tf JOyous Wrapped, floatmg, and the blue-pale smoke of the mcens� Swtft to nse, then lazily m the wmd as Aeolus over bean-field, As hay m the sun, the ohhanum, saffron, As myrrh wtthout styrax , Each man tn hts cloth, as on raft, .::>n The htgh mvlSlble current, On toward the fall of water, And then over that cataract, In au, strong, the bnght flames,

Nel fuoco

V shaped ,

D'amore nu mise, nel fuoco d'amore mi m1Se Yellow, bnght saffron, croceo, And as the ohbanum bursts mto flame, The bodies so flamed m the air, took flame, .. MI mtse, tl mto sposo novello " Shot from stream mto sptral, Or followed the water Or looked back to the flowmg , Others approachmg that cataract, As to dawn out of shadow, the swathed cloths Now purple and orange, And the blue water dusky beneath them, pourmg there mto the cataract, Wtth notse of sea over shmgle, strikmg wtth hah hah ahah thmm, thunb, ah woh woh araha thumm, bhaaa And from the floatmg bodtes, the mcense blue-pale, purple above them Shelf of the lotophagot, Aenal, cut m the aether Rechmng, Wtth the stlver spula, The ball as of melted amber, coued, caught up, and turned Lotophagot of the suave natls, qUtet, scornful, Voce-profondo •• Feared netther death nor pam for thts beauty , If harm, harm to ourselves " And beneath the clear bones, far down, Thousand on thousand .. What gam wtth Odysseus, " They that dted m the whtrlpool .. And after many vam labours, .. Ltvmg by stolen meat, chamed to the rowmgbench, •• That he should have a great fame

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.. And he by mght Wtth the goddess' .. Thetr names are not wntten m bronze " Nor thetr rowmg sttcks set With Elpenor's , " Nor have they mound by sea-bord '' That saw never the ohves under Spartha " \Vtth the leaves green and then not green,

« The chck of hght m their branches ,

« That saw not the bronze hall nor the mgle .. Nor lay there With the queen's W'utmg maids, .. Nor had they Ctrce to couch-mate, Ctrce T1tama, " Nor had they meats of Kalupso " Or her suk sktrts brushmg the1r thtghs " Gtve'

What were they given':l Ear-wax:

" Poison and ear-wax:, and a salt grave by the bull-field,

" neson amumo11a, thetr heads hke sea crows m the foam, " Black splotches, sea-weed under hghtnmg , " Canned beef of Apollo, ten cans for a boat load " L1gur' a01de And from the plam whence the water-shoot, Across, back, to the nght, the roads, a way m the grass, The Khan's huntmg leopard, and young Salustto And Ix:otta , the suave turf Ac ferae famutares, and the cars slowly, And the panthers, soft-footed Plam, as the plam of Somnus, the heavy cars, as a tnumph, Gilded, heavy on wheel, and the panthers chamed to the cars, Over suave turf, the form wrapped, Rose, cnmson, deep crrmson, And, m the blue dusk, a colour as of rust m the sunlight, Out of white cloud, movmg over the plam, 94

Head m arm's curve, tt:chnmg, The road, back and away, txll cut along the face of the rock, And the chff folds m hke a curtam, The road cut m under the rock Square groove m the clxff's face, as chxostn, The columns crystal, Wtth peacocks cut m the capxtals, The soft pad of beasts draggmg the cars , Cars, slow, wrthout creak, And at wrndows m mner roadsxde le donne e 1 cavahen smooth face under hennm, The sleeves embroxdered wtth flowers, Great thxstle of gold, or an amaranth, Acorns of gold, or of scarlet, CramOISl and dtaspre slashed whtte mto velvet , Crystal columns, acanthus, strens m the pular heads , And at last, between grlded barocco, Two columns coued and fluted, Vanoka, leanmg half naked, waste hall there behmd her .. Peace' Borso , Borsa' .,

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XXI the peace, Borsa I " Where are we�

'' Keep on w1th the busmess,

That's made me,

" And the res pubhca d1dn't

.. When I was broke, and a poor k1d,

.. They all knew me, all of these crttadtm, •• And they all of them cut me dead, della glona "

Intestate, 142 9 , leavmg 1 7 8 ,22 1 flonns

dt sugello,

As 1s said m Cosima's red leather note book

DI sugello

And " w1th his credit empt1ed Vemce of money "­ That was Cos1mo .. And Naples, and made them accept his peace " And he caught the young boy F1cmo And had h1m taught the greek language , " W1th two ells of red cloth per person I wul make you ", CoslmO speakmg, .. as many Honest Citizens as you desire " Col cred1to suo Napoh e Venezia d1 danar1 Costrettl

Napoh e Venez1a

Or another t1me

a quella pace

oh well, pass 1t

And P1ero called m the credits, (Diot1salv1 was back of that) And firms faued as far off as Av1gnon, And P1ero was hke to be murdered, And young Lauro came down ahead of him, And satd Yes, father 1s conung

m

the road,

Intestate, '69 , m December, leavmg me 23 7,9 8 9 florms, As you will :find m my b1g green account book In carta d1 capretto,

And from '34 when I count It, to last year, We paid out 6oo,ooo and over, That was for bu.tldmg, taxes and charity Nic Uzano saw us commg Agamst It, honest, And warned 'em They'd have murdered hrm, And would Cosimo, but he bnbed 'em, And they did m Giuliano E difficile, A Firenze dlfficlle VIVer ricco Senza aver lo stato •• E non avendo stato Piccmmo .. Doveva temerlo qualunque era m stato , " And .. that man sweated blood to put through that railway ", • • Could you ", wrote Mr Jefferson, •• Fmd me a gardener Who can play the french horn> The bounds of Amencan fortune Will not adrmt the mdulgence of a domestiC band of MusiCians, yet I have thought that a passiOn for musiC Might be reconciled With that economy wh1ch we are Obhged to observe I retam among my domestic s ervants A gardener, a weaver, a cabmet-maker, and a stone-cutter, To wruch I would add a vtgneron In a country hke yours (Id est Burgundy) where mus1c 1s cultiVated and Pract1sed by every class of men, I suppose there mtght Be found persons of these trades who could perform on The french horn, clanonet, or hautboy and bassoon, so That one might have a band of two french horns, two Clanonets, two hautboys and a bassoon, Without enlargmg Their domestxc expenses A certamty of employment for Half a dozen years (affattgandose per suo pzacer o non) And at the end of that trme, to find them, xf they Choose, a conveyance to their own country, might mduce Them to come here on reasonable wages W1thout meamng to Gxve you trouble, perhaps It mxght be practicable for you 97

In your ordmary mtercourse w1th your people to :find out Such men disposed to come to Amenca

Sobnety and good

Nature would be des1rable parts of their characters " June I 77 8 Montecello And m July I went up to Milan for D uke Galeaz To sponsor his mfant m bapt1sm,

Albe1t were others more worthy,

And took h1s Wife a gold collar holdmg a diamond That cost about 3 000 ducats, on whtch account That s1gnor Galeaz Sforza VIsconti has Wished me To stand sponsor to all of his chtldren Another war Without glory, and another peace Without qwet And the Sultan sent him an assassm, his brother, And the Soldan of Egypt, a hon , And he begat one pope and one son and four daughters, And an Umvemty, Ptsa , (Lauro Med1c1) And nearly went broke m hiS busmess, And bought land m S1ena and Ptsa,

And made peace by his own talk m Naples

And there was grass on the floor of the temple, Or where the floor of tt m1ght have been , Gold fades m the gloom,

Under the blue-black roof, Plac1dla's, Of the exarchate, and we s1t here By the arena, les gradms And the palazzo, baseless, hangs there m the dawn

W1th low rmst over the ttde-mark,• And floats there nel tramonto Wtth gold rmst over the tide-mark The tesserae of the floor, and the patterns Fools makmg new shambles, rught over green ocean, And the dory black of the mght

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Nxght of the golden ttger, And the dry flame m the atr, Vo1ces of the processxon, Famt now, from below us, And the sea With tm flash m the sun-dazzle, Ltk.e dark wme m the shadows .. Wmd between the sea and the mountams " The tree-spheres half dark agamst sea half clear agamst sunset, The sun's keel fretghted wxth cloud, And after that hour, dry darkness Floatmg flame m the axr, gonads m organdy,

Dry flamelet, a petal borne m the Wind Gxgnete1 kalon Impenetrable as the Ignorance of old women In the dawn, as the fleet commg m after Actxum,

Shore to the eastward, and altered, And the old man sweepmg leaves .. Damned to you Mxdas, Midas lackmg a Pan' " And now m the valley, Valley under the day's edge •• Grow wtth the Pmes of lse, .. As the Nile swells With Inopos .. As the Nxle falls wxth Inopos " Photbos, turrxs eburnea, Ivory agamst cobalt, And the boughs cut on the air, The leaves cut on the a1r, The hounds on the green slope by the hxll, water stxll black m the shadow In the crisp air, the diSconttnuous gods , Pallas, young owl m the cup of her hand, And, by mght, the stag runs, and the leopard, Owl-eye amxd pme boughs 99

Moon on the palm-leaf, confuswn , Confusion, source of renewals, Yellow wmg, pale m the moon shaft, Green wmg, pale m the moon shaft, Pomegranate, pale m the moon shaft, White horn, pale m the moon shaft, and Txtama By the drmkmg hole, steps, cut m the basalt Danced there Athame, danced, and there Pha:thusa W1th colour m the vem, Strong as With blood-dnnk, once, W1th colour m the vem, Red m the smoke-famt throat Dis caught her up And the old man went on there beatmg his mule With an asphodel

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that man sweat blood to put through that rauway, And what he ever got out of It"> And he sa1d one thmg As 1t costs,

As m any mdian war 1t costs the government .2 o,ooo dollars per head To kill off the red warnors, 1t might be more humane

And even cheaper, to educate And there was the other type, Warenhauser, That beat him, and broke up h1s busmess, Tale of the Amencan Cuna that gave him, Warenhauser permission to buud the Northwestern railway And to take the timber he cut m the process, So he cut a road through the forest, Two miles wide, an' perfectly legal Who wuz agom' to stop him I And he came m and sa1d Can't do 1t, Not at that pnce, we can't do It " That was m the last war, here m England, And he was makmg chunks for a turbme Jn some sort of an army plane , An' the mspector says " How many reJects"> " ••

What you mean, reJects'> "

And the mspector says .. How many do you get'> " And Joe said " We don't get

any reJects, our "

And the mspector says " Well then of course you can't do It " Pnce of hfe m the occident And C H said to the renowned Mr Bukos

•• What IS the cause of the H C L "> " and Mr Bukos,

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The economist consulted of nat om, said " Lack of laboui ' And there were two millions of men out of work And C H shut up, he said He would save his breath to cool his own porndge, But I didn't, and I went on plagumg Mr Bukos Who said finally « I am an orthodox " Economist " Jesu Chnstol Standu nel parad1so terrest1 e Pensando come SI fesse compagna d'Adamo" And Mr H B wrote m to the office I would hke to accept C H 's book

But 1t 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 Palgrave's Golden Treasury

Nel paradiso terrestre

And all the matenal was used up, Jesu Chnsto, And everythmg m Its place, and nothmg left over 1 o make una compagna d'Adamo Come s1 fesse i E pot ha VIshtu una volpe And the tail of the volpe, the VIxen, Fme, spreadmg and handsome, e pensava That will do for trus busmess , And Ia volpe saw m hts eye what was commg, Corre, volpe corre, Chnstu corre, volpecorre, Chnstucorre, e dav' un saltu, ed ha preso la coda Della volpe, and the volpe wrenched loose And left the tall m his hand, e d1 questu Fu fatta, e per questu :L la donna una funa, Una fuRRxa-e-una rabbxa 102

And a voice behmd me tn the street .. Meesta1r Freer ' Meestair " 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 Woud you lak To meet a wholley man, yais he 1s a veree wholley man So I met Mohamed Ben Abt el HJameed, And that everung he spent his whole time Queenng the sh1rt-seller's bus10ess, And takmg hot whiskey The sailors Come m there for two mghts a week and :fill up the cafe And the rock scorpions chng to the edge Until they can't Jes' nacherly stand 1t And then they go to the Calpe ( Lyceo)

NO MEMBER OF THE MILITARY OF WHATEVER RANK IS PERMITTED WITHIN THE WALLS OF THIS CLUB That fer the governor of G1bel Tara " Jeen-Jah' Jeen-Jah' " squawked Mohamed, •• 0-ah, gee£ heem sax-pence "

And a chap

10 a red fez came 10, and gnnned at Mohamed Who spat across four metres of tables

At Mustafa

That was all there was

To that greetmg, and three mghts later G10ger came back as a customer, and took 1t out of Mohamed He hadn't sold a damn sh1rt on the Tuesday

And I met Yusuf and e1ght men So I sez Wot 1S the matter) And Yusuf satd Vatry foohsh,

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the calle,

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Be sefen an' seex for the summons - Mohamed want to sue heem for hbel ­ To gJ.Ve all that to the court' So I went off to Granada And when I came back I saw Gmger, and I said What about 1t;� And he sa1d 0-ah, I gee£ heem a Seex-pence Customs of the sha-ha-reef And they were all there m the lyceo,

Cab dnvers, and chaps from tobacco shops, And Edward the Seventh's gu1de, and they were all For secess10n Dance halls bemg closed at two m the morrung, By the governor's order And another day on the p1er Was a fat fellah from Rhode Island, a-saym' .. B1 Hek' I been all thru Italy An' am't never been stuck ' " •• But th1s place xs plumb full er scoundrels " And Yusuf sard Ya1s ') an' the reech man In youah countree, haowa they get their money, They no go rob some poor pa1rsons') And the fat fellah shut up, and went off And Yusuf sa1d Woat, he 1ss all thru Eet:1ly An' ee 1s nevaxr been stuck, ee ees a har W'en I goa to some foram's country I am stuck W'en yeou goa to some foram's country You moss be stuck, w'en they come 'ere I steek tham And we went down to the synagogue, All full of sxlver lamps And the top gallery stacked w1th old benches , And m came the levxte and SlX httle cho1r k1ds And began yowhng the ntual As 1f 1t was crammed full of JOkes, And they went through a whole book of 1t, I 04

And m came the elders and the scnbes About five or

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and the rabbt

And he sat down, and gnnned, and pulled out hts snuff-box, And sniffed up a thumb-full, and grmned, And called over a ktd from the chotr, and whispered, And nodded toward one old buffer, And the kid took him the snuff-box and he gnnned, And bowed his head, and smffed up a thumb-full, And the kid took the box back to the rabbi, And he grmned, e faceva bisbigho, And the kid toted off the box to another old bunch of whiskers, And he smffed up his thumb-full, And so on tul they'd each had hts smff, And then the rabbt looked at the stranger, and they All grmned half a yard wtder, and the rabbt Whtspered for about two mmutes longer, An' the ktd brought the box over to me, And I grmned and smffed up my thumb-full And then they got out the scrolls of the law And had their httle procession And kissed the ends of the markers And there was a case on for rape and blackmatl Down at the court-house, behmd the big patto full of Wtstana, An' the ntgger m the red fez, Mustafa, on the boat later An' I satd to hrm Yusuf, Yusuf's a damn good feller And he says •• Ya1s, he ees a goot fello, ... But after all a chew ees a chew , And the JUdge says That vetl is too long And the gtrl takes off the vetl That she has stuck onto her hat With a pm, ... Not a veu," she says, " 'at's a scarf ,

And the JUdge says Don't you know you aren't allowed all those buttons) And she says Those am't buttons, them's bobbles Can't you see there am't any button-holes) And the Judge says Well, anyway, you're not allowed ermme .. Ermme"> " the gtrl says, " Not ermme, that am't, .. 'At's lattlttzo " And the JUdge says And JUSt what 1s a lattlttzo"> And the gtrl says " It'z a an1mal " S1gnon, you go and enforce 1t

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ommformts," Psellos, " omms .. Intellectus est " God's fire Gemtsto .. Never Wlth this rehgton " Wtll you make men of the greeks .. But buud wall across Peloponesus •• And orgamze, and damn these Eyetaltan barbarians " And Novvy's shtp went down m the tempest Or at least they chucked the books overboard How dissolve Irol m sugar Houule blanche, Auto-chemlle, destroy all bactena m the ktdney, Invention-d'entttes-plus-ou-moms-abstraits­ en-nombre-egal-aux-choses-a-exphquer La Science ne peut pas y constster •• J'at Obtenu une brulure " M Cune, or some other sctentlSt tt Qm m'a COUte SIX mOIS de guenson " and contmued hxs expenments Troptsmes ' uwe beheve the attractiOn lS chemtcal , Wtth the sun m a golden cup and gomg toward the low fords of ocean "'AA.to� 8' 'Y7TEpwvf.8a� 8e1rac; ea-Ka.Tej3atvE x.pva-Eov "Orppa 8l �KEavo'io 1repauas

rma vada na " sa1d Anch1ses . . Tethneke," said the helmsman, .. I thmk they " Are howhng because Adonis dxed vxrgtn '' .. Huh I tet " sa1d Ancluses, ••

well, they've made a bloody mess of that City "

.. Kmg Otreus, of Phrygxa, .. That kmg 1s my father " and saw then, as of waves takmg form, As the sea, hard, a ghtter of crystal, And the waves nsmg but formed, holdmg the1r form No hght reachmg through them

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XXIV the book of the mandates

Feb

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We des1re that you our factors give to Zohanne of R1mmi

our servant, s1x hre marchesm1, for the three prlZes he has won racmg our barbansc1,

at the rate we have agreed on The races he has won are the Modena, the San Petromo at Bologna and the last race at San Zorzo ( Signed) Par1Sma Marchesa pay them for bmdmg un hbro franxese che s1 duama Tnstano

Canss1m1 nostn Zohanne da R.tmim has won the pal10 at Milan w1th our horse and writes that he 1s now on the hotel, and wants money Send what you thmk he needs, but when you get him back m Ferrara find out what he has done Wtth the first lot, I thmk over

2 5 ducats

But send the other cash qUickly, as I don't want him there on the hotel perfumes, parrot seed, combs, two great and two small ones from Vemce, for madama la man..esana 20 ducats to gtve to a fnend of ours who paid a b11l for us on th1S tnp to Romagna verde colore predeletto, 2 5 ducats Ziparello stlver embrotdered for Ugo fiolo del Stgnore

( 2.7 nov 1427 )

PROCURATIO NOMINE PATRIS, Leonello Este

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( arrangxng dot for Marganta hts stster, to Roberto Malatesta of Rtmtm ) natae praehbat1 margantae Ill D Ntcolat Marchtoms Esten et Sponsae The tower of Gualdo wtth plenary JUnsdtctlOn m ctvtls , and tn cnmmal to fine and have scourged all delinquents as m the rest of thetr lands, •• whtch thmgs thts tower, estate at Gualdo had the Illustnous Ntcolaus MarqUis of Este recetved from the satd Don Carlo (Malatesta) for dower Illustrae Dommae Pansmae Marxesana " under my hand D Mtchaeh de Magnabuc1s Not pub Ferr D Ntcolaeque GU1ducc10h de Arunmo Sequtt bonorum descnptto And he m hts young youth, m the wake of Odysseus To Ctthera ( a d I4 I 3 ) •• dove fu Elena rapta da Pam " Dmners m orange groves, prows attended of dolphms, Vesttge of Rome at Pola, fatr wmd as far as Naxos Ora vela, ora a remt, smo ad ora dt vespero Or With the satl ttght hauled, by the crook'd land's arm Zefaloma And at COi"fu, greek smgers, by Rhodos Of the wmdrmlls, and to Paphos, Donkey boys, dust, deserts, Jerusalem, backsheesh And an endless fuss over passports , One groat for the Jordan, whether you go there or not, The school where the madonna m gxrlhood Went to learn letters, and Ptlate's house closed to the publ14 , .2 soldt for Ohvet (to the Saracens) And no mdulgence at Judas's tree, and III

" Here Chnst put h1s thumb on a rock •• Saymg htc est mediUm mundt " (That, I assure you, happened

Ego, scnptor canttlenae ) For worse) for better"> but happened After whtch, the greek gtrls at Corfu, and the Ladtes, Venetian, and they all sang m the evemng Benche muno cantasse, although none of them could, Wttness Luchmo del Campo Plus one turktsh JUggler, and they had a bath When they got out of Jerusalem And for cargo one leopard of Cyprus And falcons, and small birds of Cyprus, Sparrow hawks, and grayhounds from Turkey To breed m Ferrara among thm-legged Ferrarese, Owls, hawks, :fishmg tackle Was beheaded Aldovrandmo ( 1425, vent'uno Maggto) Who was cause of this evtl, and after The Marchese asked was U go beheaded And the Captam .. Stgnor s1 " and 1l Marchese began crytng .. Fa me hora taghar la testa .. dapo1 cost presto hat decapttato I1 mto Ugo , Rodendo con dentt una bachetta che havea tn mam And passed that mght weepmg, and calhng Ugo, hts son Affable, bullnecked, that brought seductiOn m place of Rape mto government, ter pactS ltahae auctor, Wtth the boys pullmg the tow-ropes on the nver Tre cento bastard1 (or bombardt :fired off at hts funeral) And the next year a standard from Vemce (Where they'd called off a horse race) And the baton from the Florentme batly .. Of Fair aspect, gentle m manner " Forty years old at the t1me, •• And they killed a Judge's wtfe among other,

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That was a JUdge of the court and noble, And called Madonna Laodamta delh Romet, Beheaded m the pa della J USttcia, And m Modena, a madonna Agnesma Who had poisoned her husband, " All women known as adulterous, " That hts should not suffer alone " And

m

Then the wnt ran no further '3 I marned Monna Ricarda

CHARLES

scavoir fatsans

et advemr

a haute

noblesse du Lmage et Hostel e faictz hautex vatilance affection notre dict Cousm puiSsance, auctonte Royal 11 et ses hors yssus a leur l01se avotr doresenavant

et

A TOUSIUOURS EN LEURS ARMES ESCARTELURE trots fleurs LIZ d'or en champs a'asur dentelle IOISsent et usent Mil CCCC trente et ung, consetl a Chmon, le Roy, l'Esne de la Trunoutii, Vend01se, Jehan Rabateau And m '3 .2 came the Marchese Saluzzo To VIStt them, hts son m law and hts daughter, And to see Hercules hts grandson, ptccolo e putmo And m '4r Polenta went up to Vemce Agamst Niccolo's cautton And was swallowed up m that City

E fu sepulto nudo, Ntccolo, Wtthout decoration, as ordered m testament,

Ter pacts Itahae And If you want to know what became of his statue, I had a nfle class m Bondeno

And the pnest sent a boy to the hardware And he brought back the nails m

Il3

a

wrappmg,

And 1t was the leaf of a diary And he got the rest from the hardware (Cass1m, hbra10, speakmg) And on the first leaf of the wrappmg Was how m Napoleon's t1me Came down a load of brass fittmgs from Modena V1a del Po, all went by the nver, To P1acenza for cannon, bells, door-knobs And the statues of the Marchese N1ccolo and of Borso That were m the P1azza on columns And the Commendatore has made 1t a monograph Wtthout saymg I told hxm and sent h1m The name of the pnest After hxm and h1s day Were the cake-eaters, the consumers of 1cmg, That read all day per duetto And left the mght work to the servants , Ferrara, paradiSo de1 sart1, " feste stomagose ,. .. Is 1t hkely D1vme Apollo, That I should have stolen your cattle) A child of my age, a mere mfant, And bes1des, I have been here all mght m my cnb " .. Albert made me, Tura pamted my wall, And Julxa the Countess sold to a tannery

T

HE

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BOOK O F THE COUNCIL MAJOR I 2 5 5 be xt enacted That they mustn•t shoot crap m the hall of the councxl, nor xn the small court under pam of 20 danarx, be xt enacted u66 no squxre of Vemce to throw dxce anywhere m the palace or m the loggta of the Rtalto under pam of ten sold1 or half that for kxds, and xf they wont pay they are to be chucked m the water be xt enacted In hbro pactorum To the thxngs evedastmg memory both for hve men and for the future et quod pubhce mnotescat m the saxd date, dxcto mtllessrmo of the Illustrious lord, Lord John Soranzo by god's grace doge of Vemce m the Cuna of the Palace of the Doges, neath the portiCO next the house of the dwellmg of the Castaldxo and of the heralds of the Lord Doge bemg beneath same a penthouse or cages or room trmbered ( trabestlis) hke a cellar one L10n male and one female szmul commorantes whxch beasts to the Lord Doge were transmitted small by that serene Lord Kmg Fredenc of Stcxly, the satd lxon knew carnally and xn nature the Lxoness aforesatd and rmpregnated m that manner that anxmals leap on one another to know and xmpregnate on the faxth of several ocular wxtnesses Wluch honess bore pregnant for about three months (as 1S saxd by those who saw her assaulted) II5

and 10 the saxd mxlless1mo and month on a sunday ath of the month of September about sunnse on St Mark's day early but wxth the hght already apparent the said honess as IS the nature of ammals whelped per naturam three hon cubs VIvos et puosos hvmg and hairy which born at once began hfe and mot10n and to go gynng about their mother throughout the aforesaid room as saw the aforesaid Lord Doge and as It were all the Venetians and other folk who were m Vemce that day that concurred all for this as It were m.traculous Sight And one of the ammals 1s a male and the other two female I John Marchesm1 Ducal notary of the Venetians as eyewitness saw the nat1v1ty of these ammals thus by mandate of the saxd Doge wrote this and put 1t m :file Also a note from Pontius P1late dated the " year 3 3 " Two columns ( a d I 3 23 ) fo1 the church of St Nicholas of the palace 1 2 hre gross To the procurators of St Marc for entrance to the palace, for gudmg the Images and the hon over the door to be paid Be 1t enacted

to Donna Sorant1a Soranzo that she come for the feast of Ascens1on by mght m a covered boat and ahght at the r1pa del Palazzo, and when first sees the Chr1stblood go at once up mto the Palace and may stay m the Palace VIII days to VISit the Doge her father not 10 that time leavmg the palace, nor descendmg the palace stair and when she descends 1t that she return by mght the boat 10 the hke manner

II6

bemg covered

To be revoked at the council's pleasure accepted by of the council

5

13 3 5 3 hre 1 5 groats to stone for makmg a hon r 3 40

Council of the lords noble, Marc

Enzto

Ntc Speranzo, Tomasso Gradomco that the hall be new built over the room of the mght watch and over the columns toward the canal where the walk IS because of the stmk of the dungeons I 3 44

1409

smce the most serene Doge can scarce

stand upnght m hiS bedroom

vad1t pars, two gross hre

stone statr, 14 1 5 , for pulchntude of the p alace

254 da parte de non 2 3 4 non stncere Whtch 1s to say they built out over the arches and the palace hangs there m the dawn, the nust,

m that drmness,

or as one rows m from past the murazz1 the barge slow after moon-nse

and the voice soundmg under the sat! Mist gone And SulptC1a green shoot now, and the wood white under new cortex •• as the sculptor sees the form m the atr

before he sets hand to mallet, •• and as he sees the m, and the through, the four stdes

" not the one face to the pamter As Ivory uncorrupted " Pone metum Cennthe ,,

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Lay there, the long soft gnss, and the flute hy there by her th1gh, Sulptcta, the fauns, twtg-strong, gathered about her, The flmd, over the grass Zephyrus, passmg through her, " deus nee laedtt amantes '' H1c mrlu dtes sanctus , And from the stone p1ts, the heavy votces, Heavy sound .. Sero, sero

•• Nothmg we made, we set nothmg m order, •• Ne1ther house nor the carvmg, •• And what we thought had been thought for too long,

" Our optruon not optmon m evtl •• But opm1on borne for too long •• We have gathered a s1eve full of water "

And from the comb of reeds, came notes and the chorus Movmg, the young fauns Pone meturn, Metum, nee deus laed1t •

And as after the form, the shadow, Noble forms, lackmg hfe, that bolge, that valley the dead words keepmg form, and the cry C1v1s Rornanus The clear a1r, dark, dark, The dead concepts, never the sohd, the blood nte, The vamty of Ferrara, Clearer than shades, m the htll road Sprmgmg m cleft of the rock Phaethusa There as she carne among them, Wme m the srnoke-famt throat, Ftre gleam under smoke of the mountam, Even there by meadows of Phlegethon II8

And agamst thts the flute pone metum Fadmg, that they earned thetr guts before them, And thought then, the deathless, Form, forms and renewal, gods held

m

the air,

Forms seen, and then clearness, Bnght v01d, Without tmage, Nap1sht1m, Castmg hts gods back mto the von " as the sculptor sees the form " as glass seen under water,

m

the

air

" Kmg Otreus, my father and saw the waves takmg form as crvstal, notes as facets of atr, and the mmd there, before them, movmg, so that notes needed not move stde toward the ptazza, the worst stde of the room that no one has been wtlhng to tackle, and do tt as cheap or much cheaper ( signed) Tician, 3 I May 1 5 1 3 It bemg convenxent that there be an end to the pamtmg of Ttttan, fourth frame from the door on the nght of the hall of the greater counCil, begun by maestro TyCiano da Cadore smce tts bemg thus un:fimshed holds up the decoration of satd hall on the stde that everyone sees We move that by authonty of this Council maestro Tyctano aforesaid be constramed to :fimsh satd canvas, and 1£ he have not, to lose the expectancy of the brokerage on the Fondamenta delh Thodescht and moreover to restore all payments reed on account of I I Aug I 5 22 sa1d canvas Ser Leonardus Emo, Saptens ConsUIJ Ser Phxlxppus Capello, Saptens Terrae Firmae

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In I 5 I 3 on the last day of May was conceded to T1c1an of Cadore pamter a succession to a brokerage on the Fondamenta det Thodesch1, the :first to be vacant In I 5 r 6 on the 5th of december was declared that Wlthout further wattmg a vacancy he shd enter that which had been held by the pamter Zuan Bellm on cond1t10n that he pamt the ptcture of the land battle

m the Hall of our Greater Councd on the stde toward the piazza over the Canal Grande, the wh1ch Tician after the dermse of Zuan Bellm entered mto possesston of the said Sensar1a and has for about twenty years profited by 1t, namely to about r oo ducats a year not mcludmg the

I 8 to .zo ducats taxes yearly remitted h1m tt bemg fitting that as he has not worked he should not have the sa1d profits WHEREFORE be 1t moved that the satd T1c1an de Cadore, ptctor, be by authority of this Council obhged and constramed to restore to our government all the moneys that he has had from the agency dunng the tnne he has not worked on the pamtmg m the satd

hall as 1s reasonable

ayes r o2., noes 3 8 ,

3 7 undectded regtster of the senate terra 1 5 37, carta 1 3 6

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D A

XXVI I came here m my young youth

and lay there under the crocod:tle By the column, lookmg East on the Fnday, And I sa1d Tomorrow I Will he on the South s1de And the day after, south west And at mght they sang m the gondolas And m the barche With lanthorns , The prows rose suver on suver takmg ltght m the darkness •• Relaxetur ' " I Ith December 1461 that Past1 be let out Wtth a caveat •• caveat 1re ad Turchum, that he stay out of Constantmople •• If he hold dear our government's pleasure " The book Will be retamed by the counc!l (the book bemg Valtuno's •• Re Mlhtan " ) To N1colo Segundmo, the next year, nth October " Leave no omnem as they say volve lapidem .. Stone unturned that he, P1o, •• G1ve peace to the Malatesta •• Faithful sons (we are) of the church ( for two pages) .. And see all the cardmals and the nephew .. And m any case get the JOb done •• Our galleys were stnctly neutral •• And sent there for neutrahty •• See Borso m Ferrara " I2I

To Bernard Justiman, z 8 th of October .. Segundmo IS to come back With the news .. Two or three days after you get this " Scnato Secreto, z8th of October, Came Messtre Hambal from Cesena .. Cd they holSt the flag of St Mark .. And have Fortmbras and our army' " •• They cd not but on the quxet, secrctlSSlme, .. Two grand S1c He may have •• Two thousand ducats , h1mself to hire the men •• From our army " 8 barrels wme, to Henry of Ingh1lterra Tm, serges, amber to go by us to the Levant,

Corfu, and above Corfu

And hxther came Selvo, doge, that :first mosxac'd San Marco, And h1s Wlfe that would touch food but wxth forks, Sed aure1S furcuhs, that IS Wlth small golden prongs Bnngmg m, thus, the v1ce of luxuna , And to greet the doge Lorenzo T1epolo, Barbers, heads covered With beads, Furrters, masters m rough, Master pelters for :fine work, And the masters for lambskm Wtth silver cups and their wme flasks And blackSIDJ.ths Wlth the gonfaron et leurs :fioles charg�es de vm, The masters of wool cloth Glass makers m scarlet Carrymg fabrefacttons of glass , 1 2.2.

z5 th Apnl the JOUstmg, The Lord Nxcolo Este, Ugaccxon dex Contrarmx, The Lord Francesco Gonzaga, and :first The goldsnuths and Jewelers' company Wearxng pellande of scarlet, the horses m cendato And xt cost three ducats to rent any horse For three hundred and :fifty horses, m p1azza, And the prxze was a collar Wlth Jewels And these folk came on horses to the pxazza In the last :fight fourteen on a sxde, And the prxze went to a mgger from Mantua That came Wlth Mesme Gonzaga And that year ('3 8 ) they came here Jan z The Marquxs of Ferrara mamly to see the greek Emperor, To take hxm down the canal to hxs house, And wxth the Emperor came the archbxshops The Archbxshop of Morea Lower And the Archbxshop of Sardxs And the Bxshops of Lacedremon and of Mxtylene, Of Rhodos, of Modon Brandos, And the Archbxshops of Athens, Cormth, and of Trebxzond, The chxef secretary and the stonohfex And came Cosrmo Medxcx •• almost as a Venetxan to Vemce (That would be four days later) And on the 2. 5 th, Lord S1gxsmundo da Runuu For government busmess And then returned to the camp And m February they all packed off To Ferrara to decxde on the holy ghost And as to the whxch begat the what m the Tnmty GemlStO and the Stonohfex, "

And you would have bust ; our bum laughmg To see the hats and beards of those greeks And the guild spmt was declmmg Te fih Dux, tuosque successores Aureo anulo, to wed the sea as a wife, for beatmg the Emperor Manuel, eleven hundred and seventy SI"'!: I I 7 5 a d first bndge m R1alto .. You may seal your acts wtth lead, Stgnor Z1am " The Jewelers company had theu furs lmed With scarlet And s:tlk cloth for the horses, A s:tlk cloth called cendato That they st11l use for the shawls , And at the ttme of that war agamst Hungary Uncle Carlo Malatesta, three wounds Jhhsta, sword and a lance wound , And to our general Pandolfo, three legates, Wxth stlk and Wtth stlver, And Wtth velvet, wme and confectxons, to keep h1m -.. Per anxmarla - m mood to go on With the fightmg c• That are

m San Samuele (young ladtes) are all to go to Rxalto And to wear yellow kerchief, as are also Thexr matrons (ruffiane) " c• Ambassador, for his great wtsdom and money, •• That had been here as an exxle, Cos1mo « Pater " •• Lord LUigx Gonzaga, to be gtven Casa Gtustmtan "

•• Btshops of Lampascus and Cyprus ••

And other fifty lords b1shops ., that are the church of the onent I 24

March 8, " That S1g1smundo left Mantua Ill contented And they are dead and have left a few pictures •• AlbiZl have sacked the MediCI bank "

« Venettans may stand, come, depart Wtth thetr families Free by land, free by sea m their galleys, Shtps, boats, and With merchand1se .1 % on what's actually sold No tax above that Year 696.1 of the world z8 th Aprtl, m Constantmople " Wmd on the lagoon, the south wmd breakmg roses mmo ac exmo ( eccellentlSSlffiO) pnnceps et d"0 Lord, my lord m particular, Sforza In reply to Ist ltr of yr ld�hp re matr of horses, there are some for sale here I said that I hdn't then seen 'em all thoroughly Now I may say that I have, and thmk There are eleven good horses and almost that number Of hacks that mtght be used m necessJty, To be had at a reasonable pnce It ts true that there are X or XI btg horses from S o to u o ducats That seem to me dearer at the prtce Than those for 8o ducats and under And I thmk that tf yr ldSP wd send from zooo ducats to one thousand 500 It cd be spent On stuff that wd sutt yr Ldp quite well Please Y L to answer qutckly As I want to take myself out "Of here, And tf you want me to buy them Send the cash by Mr Pttro the farrter And have rum tell me by mouth or letter

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What yr ld11 wants me to buy Even from So ducats up there are certam good horses I have nothmg else to say to your Lordship Save my salutations G1ven Bologna, 14th of August r45 3 Servant of yr Illustnous Lordship

PISANELLUS 1462, uth December " and V1ttor Capello Brought also the head of St George the Martyr From the Island of Siesma This head was covered Wlth silver and Taken to San GiorgiO MaggiOre To the Cardmal Gonzaga of Mantua, ultimo febbraio 1 548 '' 26th of feb was killed m this c1ty Lorenzo de MediClS

Yr Illu• Ld•hp will understand

from the enc account how the affair 1s said to have gone off

They say those who ktiled him have certamly got away m a post boat Wlth 6 oars But they don't know which way they have gone, and as a guard may

have been set In certam places and passes, 1t wd be convement tf yr Ills Ldflohp wd wnte at once to your ambassador here, saymg among other thmgs that the two men who killed Lorenzmo have passed through the City of Mantua and that no one knows which way they have gone Pubhshmg this mformation from yr Ldshp will perhaps help them to get free Although we thmk they are already m Florence, but m any case this measure can do no harm

So that

yr Ldshp wd benefit by domg 1t qUickly and even to have others send the same news May Our Lord protect yr Ilis and most Revnd person With the mcrease of state you desrre Veruce, last of Feb

I 548

I kiss the hands of yr Ill Ld•hP Don In Hnr de Mend0($a u6

To the Marqu1s of Mantova, Frano Gonzaga Illustrious my Lord, durmg the past few days An unknown man was brought to me by some others To see a Jerusalem I have made, and as soon as he saw It he InSISted that I sell 1t h1m, saymg 1t gave hnn the gtst content and sat1sfactn Fmally the de-tl was made and he took 1t away, Without paymg and hasn't smce then appeared I went to tell the people who had brought htm, one of whom 1s a pnest With a beard that wears a grey berettmo whom I have often seen wtth you m the hall of the gtr counctl and I asked hrm the fellow's name, and 1t 1s a Mess1re Lorenzo, the pamter to your Lordsh1p, from whtch I have easily understood what he was up to, and on that account I am wntmg you, to furmsh you my name and the work's In the :first place 1llustnous m lord, I am that pamter to the Setgnory, commtsstoned to pa1nt the gt hall where Yr Lordshtp detgns to mount on the scaffold to see our work, the history of Ancona, and my name IS Vtctor Carpat1o As to the Jerusalem I dare say there IS not another m our trme as good and completely perfect, or as large It 1s 2 5 ft long by 5 I/2, and I know Zuane Zambert1 has often spoken of 1t to yr Subhmity, I know certamly that this pamter of yours has earned off a ptece, not the whole of 1t I can send you a small sketch m aquarelle on a roll, or have 1t seen by good JUdges and leave the pnce to your Lordship XV Aug I p i, VenetlJS I have sent a copy o£ thiS letter by another way to be sure you get one or the other The humble svt of yr Sublimity VIctor Carpathlo ptctore

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To the supreme pig, the archbishop of Salzburg Lastmg filth and perdition Smce your exalted pustulence IS too stmgy To g:tve me a decent mcome And has already assured me that here I have nothing to hope And had better seek fortune elsewhere, And smce thereafter you have Three times rmpeded my father and self mtendmg departure I ask you for the fourth trme To behave With more decency, and this trme Permit my departure Wolfgang Amadeus, august I 777

( mter lmeas) •• As

IS

the sonata, so IS httle Miss Cannab1ch "

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F

ORMANDO

XXVII

d1 dlSlo nuova persona One man IS dead, and another has rotted hts end off Et quant au trotsteme II est tombe dans le De sa femme, on ne le reverra Pas, oth fugol omtbaer " Observed that the pamt was Three quarters of an mch thick and concluded, As they were bemg rammed through, the age of that Crutser " " Referred to no longer as The goddamned Porta-goose, but as England's oldest ally " •• At rests m calm zone If posstble, the men are to be fed and relaxed, The officers on the contrary " Ten mtlhon germs m hts face, •• That ts part of the nsk and happens •• About twtce a year m tubercular research, Dr Spahhnger •• ]'ai obtenu " said M Cune, or some other scienttst •• A burn that cost me SIX months m curmg," And contmued hts expenments England off there m black darkness, Russia off there m black darkness, The last crumbs of ctvtliZatiOn And they elected a Pnnce des Penseurs Because there were so damn many prmces, And they elected a Monsteur Bmset Who held that man ts descended from frogs, And there was a cracked concierge that they Nearly got mto the Deputies, To protest agamst the earthquake m Messma The Bucentoro sang It m that year, 1 29

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1908, 1909, I 9 I O, and there was An old washerwoman beatmg her washboard, That would be 192.0, wtth a cracked votce, Smgmg « Strettl I " and that was the last Tdl thxs year, '2.7, Hotel Ang10h, m Mtlan, W1th an a1r Clara d'Ellebeuse, Wtth the1r hkehke and foxhke eyes, With an a1r " Benette JOUe la Valse des Elfes " In the salotto of that drummer's hotel, Two young ladtes wtth their a1r de provmce " No, we are Croat merchants, commercunu, « There IS nothmg strange m OUI history " •• No, not to sell, but to buy " And there was that music publisher, The fellow that brought back the shrunk Ind1an head Boned, oded, from Bohvta, said " Yes, I went out there Couldn't make out the trade, Long after we'd melt up the plates, Get an order, zoo copies, Peru, Or some station rn Chile " Took out Floradora m sheets, And brought back a 1 ed-headed mummy With an arr Clara d'Ellebeuse, smgrng " Strettl "

Sed et umversus quoque eccles1e populus, All rushed out and budt the duomo, Went as one man without leaders And the perfect measure took form , •• Ghelmo aptadm " says the stone, •• the author, •• And Nicolao was the carver " Whatever the meamng may be And they wrote for year afte1 year Re:fi.nmg the cntenon, Or they rose as the tops subsxded, 130

Brumaire, Fructidor, Petrograd And Tovansch lay m the wmd And the sun lay over the wmd, And three forms became m the air And hovered about hxm, so that he sard Th1s machmery 1s very anc1ent, surely we have heard thiS before And the waves hke a forest Where the wmd IS wetghtless m the leaves But movmg, so that the sound runs upon sound Xantes, born of Venus and wme Carved stone upon stone But m sleep, m the wakmg dream, Petal'd the a1r, tWig where but wmd-st1 eak had been, Movmg bough Without root, by Hehos So that the Xantes bent over tovar1sch And these are tl1e labours of tovariSch, That tovansch lay m the earth, And rose, and wrecked the house of the tyrants, And that tovansch then lay m the earth And the Xantes bent over tovansch These are the labours of tovansch, That tovarlSch wrecked the house of the tyrants, And rose, and talked folly on folly, And walked forth and lay m the earth And the Xarites bent over tovar1sch And that tovansch cursed and blessed wtthout a1m, These are the labours of tovansch,

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Saytng

" Me Cadmus sowed m the earth And With the thirtieth autumn I return to the earth that made me Let the :five last build the wall , r neither buud nor reap That he came With the gold ships, Cadmus, That he fought W1th the Wisdom, Cadmus, of the gtlded prows Nothmg I butld And I reap Nothmg, With the thirtieth autumn I sleep, I sleep not, I rot And I buud no wall Where was the wall of Ebhs At Ventadour, there now are the bees, And tn that court, Wild grass for their pleasure That they carry back to the crevice Where loose stone hangs upon stone 1 saued never With Cadmus, hfted never stone above stone "

" Baked and eaten tovansch' .. Baked and eaten, tovansch, my boy, �· That 1s your story And up agam, •• Up and at 'em Laid never stone upon stone " ••

The air burst mto leaf "

•• Hung there flowered acanthus,

... Can you tell the down from the up' "

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XXVIII God the Father Eternal ( BoJa d'un D10' ) Havmg made all dungs he cd thmk of, felt yet That somethmg was lackmg, and thought Sull more, and reflected that The Romagnolo was lackmg, and Stamped With his foot m the mud and Up comes the Romagnolo .. Gard, yeh bloudy 'angman ' It's me " Aso Iqua me All Esxmo Dottor Aldo Walluschnig Who With the force of hxs mtellect With art and assxduous care Has snatched from death by a most peruous operation The classical Caesarean cut Marotti, VIrgmia, m Senm of San G10rgxo At the same time savmg her son May there move to h1s laud the applause of all men And the gratitude of the family S GIOrgio, 23d May A D 19.25 Item There are people that can swimme m the sea Havens and rxvers naked Havmg howes and shafts, Covetmg to draw mgh yr shtppe whtch If they :find not Well watched and warded they wu assault Desirous of the bodtes of men which they covet for meate, If you resist them They dtve and wxl flee And Mr Lourpee sat on the floor of the penston dining-room Or perhaps It was m the alcove And about hrm lay a great mass of pastells, That IS, stubbs and broken pencils of pastell,

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In pale mdetermmate colours And he admired the Sage of Concord «Too broad ever to make up his mmd " And the mmd of Lourpee at fifty Drrected hw mto a room With a certam vagueness As xf he wd neither come m nor stay out As xf he wd go ne1ther to the left nor the right And rus pamtmg reflected this habtt And Mrs Krefile's nund was made up, Perhaps by the pressure of circumstance, She descnbed her splendid apartment In Pam and left Without paymg her b1ll And m fact she wrote later from Sevtila And requested a shawl, and rece1ved 1t From the Senora at 3 00 pesetas cost to the latter (Also w1thout rem1ttmg) wh1ch May have explamed the lass1tude of her daughter, And the best patd dramatic cnt1c Arrtved from Manhattan And was lodged m a bordello (promptly) Havmg trusted .. hts people " Who trusted a Dutch correspondent, And when they had been devoured by fleas (Crttxc and family) They endeavoured to break the dutchman's month's contract, And the ladies from West V1rgm1a Preserved the natal aroma, And m the ratiway feedmg-room m Ch1asso She sat as 1f wattmg for the tram for Topeka - That was the year of the stnkes When we came up toward Ch1asso By the last on the narrow-gauge, Then by tramway from Como 1 34

Leavmg the lady wno loved bullfights With her eight trunks and her captured h1dalgo, And a dutchman was there who was gomg To take the boat at Tneste, Sure, he was gomg to take It, Would he go round by VIenna:'> He would not Absence of trams wdnt stop htm So we left htm at last 10 Ch1asso Along wtth the old woman from Kansas, Sohd Kansas, her daughter had marned that Swiss Who kept the buffet 10 Chtasso Dtd It shake her:'> It d1d not shake her She sat there 10 the waxtmg room, sohd Kansas, Stiff as a cxgar-store mdlan from the Bowery Such as one saw xn •• the nmettes ", First sod of bleedmg Kansas That had produced thts hgneous sohdness , If thou wtlt go to ChtaSso wtlt find that mdestructable female As If wa1ttng for the tram to Topeka In the buffet of that station on the bench that Follows the wall, to the nght stde as you enter And Clara Leonora wd come puffing so that one Cd hear her when she reached the foot of the stairs, Squared, chunky, With her crooked steel spectacles And her splutter and he1 face full of teeth And old Rennert wd stgh heavtly And look over the top of hts lenses and She wd arnve after due mterval With a pmwheel Concernmg Grtllparzer or - pratzer Or whatever follow the GnU -, and t1 Gran Maestro Mr Ltszt had come to the home of her parents And taken her on his prevalent knee and She held that a sonnet was a sonnet And ought never be destroyed, And had taken a number of courses 135

And contxnued Wlth hope of degrees and Ended m a Baptist learnery Somewhere near the R.lo Grande And they wanted more from the1r women, Wanted 'em Jacked up a httle And sent over for teachers (Ceylon ) So L01ca went out and died there After her t1me xn the post-Ibsen movement And one day xn Smith's room Or may be 1t was that 1908 medico's Put the gob xn the fi1e-place Ole Byers and Fe1genbaum and Joe Bromley, Joe h1ttm' the gob at 2 5 feet Every nme, pmg on the metal (Az ole man Comley wd say Boys ' Never cherr terbakker ' Hrwwkke tthl Never cherr terbakker' , " M.tssionaries," said Joe, • • I was out back o f Jaffa, I dressed m the costume, used to hke the cafes, All of us settm' there on the ground, Pokes his head m the doorway « Iz there any," He says, " Gar' Damn Man here

Thet kan speak ENGLISH'> " Nobody said anythmg fer a wh.tle And then I said « Hu e1' you'> " « I'm er ffilsshernary I am " He sez, " chucked off a naval boat m Shanghai I worked at It three months, nothm' to hve on " Beat his way overland I never saw the twenty I lent him " Great moral secret service, plan, Tnbune 1s told lurut number to thirty thousand, 136

only hrghest type wtll be mcluded, propaganda Wtthm ranks of the veterans, to keep wtthm bounds when they come mto contact With personal hberty wrth the french authont1es

•

that mcludes the Pans pohce Strengthen franco-amencan am1ty NARCOTIC CHARGE

Frank Robert Inqu01s

gave his home Oklahoma Crty

Expelled July

2.4

th

cc

Je SUIS (Across the bare planks of a dmmgroom m the Pyrenees) plus fort que le Boud-hah' "

(No contradictiOn)

cc

Je SUIS plus fort que le Chnst'

(No contradictiOn) '' J'aurats aboh le poids ' " (Silence, somewhat unconvmced ) And m hts waste house, detritus,

As 1t were the cast buttons of splendours,

The harbour of Marttmque, drawn every house, and m detau Green shutters on half the houses, Half the thmg sttll unpamted "

" I'm fan

sont

tene KOH­ lon1-ale "

voce tznnula " Ce sont les VIeux Marsoumsl " He made 1t, fertz Marcebrus, the words and the mus1c,

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Umform 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 •• 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 th10ugh that railway, And what he ever got out of 1t :> And one day he drove down to the whorehouse Cause all the farmers had consented and granted the nght of way, But the pornoboskos wdn't have It at any pnce And sa1d he'd shoot the surveyors, But he didn't shoot ole pop m the buckboard, He glV rum the nght of way And they thought they had him flummox'd, Nobody'd sell any ralls , TJl he went up to the north of New York state And found some there on the ground And he had 'em pned loose and sh1pped 'em And had 'em laid here through the forest Thmg IS to :find somethmg simple As for example Pa Stadtvolk , Hooks to hang gutters on roofs, A sp1ke and half-circle, patented 'em and then made Worth a good mJhon, not a book m the place , Got a horse about twenty years aftet , seen h1m Of a Saturday afternoon When they'd taken down an old fence, Ole Pa out there knockm the nails out (To save 'em) I hear he smoked good c1gars 1 38

'em,

And when the Pnnce Oltrepassimo died, saccone, That follow the coffins, He lay there on the floor of the chapel On a great piece of patterned brocade And the walls sohd gold about him And there was a hole m one of hts socks And the place open that day to the pubhc, K.lds runnmg 10 from the street And a cat sat there hckmg himself And then stepped over the Pnncipe, Discobolus upstairs and the mam door Not opened s10ce '7 0 When the Pope shut himself 10to the Vatican And they had scales on the table To weigh out the food on fast days, And he lay there With his hood back And the hole 10 one of his socks " Buk I " said the Second Baronet, .. eh '' Thass a funny look10' buk " said the Baronet Look10g at Bayle, foho, 4 vols m gUt leather, . . Ah " Wu Wu wot you gom' eh to do w1th ah " ah read-It' " Sic loquitur eques And lest 1t pass With the day's news Thrown out With the dauy paper, Neither official pet Nor Lev10e with the lucky button Went on mto darkness, Saw naught above but close dark, Weight of Ice on the fuselage Borne mto the tempest, black cloud wrappmg their 'Wlllgs, The mght hollow beneath them And fell With dawn 10to ocean

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But for the mght saw ne1ther sky nor ocean And found shxp

why�

how�

by the Azores

And she was a bathmg beauty, Miss Arkansas or Texas And the man (of course) quasx anonymous Ne1ther a placard for non-smokers or non-alcohol Nor for the code of Peona , Or one-eyed Hmchchffe and Elsie Blackeyed bttch that marned dear Denms, That flew out mto nothmgness And her father was the son of one too That got the annulment

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XXIX

great sphere, and hollow, Mtst over lake, full of sunhght, Pernella concubma The sleeve green and shot gold over her hand

Wtshmg her son to mhent Expectmg the hetr ame be kdled m battle He bemg courageous, pOisoned hts brother pume Laymg blame on Stena And thts she dtd by a page :Bnngmg war once more on Ptttghano And the page repented and told thts To Ntcolo (ame) Ptttghano Who won back that rock from hts father •• sttll dotmg on Pernella hts concubme " The sand that mght hke a seal's back Glossy beneath the lanthorns From the Vta Sacra (fleemg what band of Tntons) Up to the open atr Over that mound of the htppodrome Ltberans et vmculo ab omm hberatos As who wtth four hands at the cross roads By kmg's hand or sacerdos' are gtven thetr freedom - Save who were at Castra San Zeno Cumzza for God's love, for remtttmg the soul of her father - May hell take the trattors of Zeno And fifth begat he Albenc And stxth the Lady Cumzza

In the house of the Cavalcanti anno 1 2.65 Free go they all as by full manumission All serfs of Eccehn my father da Romano Save those who were wtth Albenc at Castra San Zeno And let them go also The deVIls of hell 10 their body And s1xth the Lady Cumzza That was first gtven Richard St Bomface And Sordello subtracted her from that husband And lay wtth her 10 Tarvtso Till he was dnven out of Tarviso And she left Wtth a sold1er named BoniUs mmium amorata m eum And went from one place to another " The light of this star o'ercame me " Greatly enJoy10g herself And runnmg up the most awful bills And trus Bonxus was killed on a sunday and she had then a Lord from Braganza and later a house m Verona And he looked from the planks to heaven, Saxd Juventus " Immortal He saxd " Ten thousand years before now Or he said '' Passmg mto the pomt of the cone You begm by makmg the rephca Thus Lusty Juventus, m 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 saxd " What I know, I have known, " How can the knowmg cease knowmg"> "

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By the lawn of the semor elder He contmued Ius ambulat10n " Matter lS the hghtest of all thmgs, " Chaff, rolled mto balls, tossed, whtrled m the aether, " Undoubtedly crushed by the weight, '' Light also proceeds from the eye , '' In the globe over my head " Twenty feet m diameter, thirty feet m dtameter '' Glassy, the glarmg surface •• There are many reflections '' So that one may watch them turmng and movmg " With heads down now, and now up He went on toward the amateur student of mmerals That later went bankrupt, He went on past the house of the local funny man, Jo Tyson that had a camera H1s daughter was bow-legged And marned the assembly-man's son 0-hon dit que-ke fois au VI'-a-ge Past the house of the three retired clergymen Who were too cultured to keep therr JObs Languor has cned unto languor about the marshmallow-roast (Let us speak of the osmosis of persons) The wau of the phonograph has penetrated their marrow (Let us The wau of the pornograph ) The CICadas contmue unmterrupted With a vam emptmess the v1rgms return to their homes With a vam exasperation The ephebe has gone back to h1s dwellmg, The dJassban has hammered and hammered, The gentleman of fifty has 1 eflected That It IS perhaps JUSt as well Let thmgs remam as they are

The mythological extenor lies on the moss m the forest And questiOns h1m about Darwm And With a burnmg fire of phantasy he rephes With "Deb r nuvoletta " So that she would regret his departure Dnft of weed m the bay She seeking a guide, a mentor, He asp1res to a career Wlth honour To step m the tracks of hts elders, a greater mcomprehension) There IS no greater mcomprehens10n Than between the young and the young The young seek comprehensiOn , The m1ddleaged to fulfill their desire Sea weed dned now, and now floated, mmd drifts, weed, slow youth, dnfts, Stretched on the rock, bleached and now floated , Wem, We1b, TAN AOIDAN Cruefest of these the second, the female Is an element, the female Is a chaos An octopus A biOlogical process and we seek to fulfill TAN AOIDAN, our des1re, drtft Allas e que'm fau m1ey huelh Quar no vezon so qu'teu vuelh Our mulberry leaf, woman, TAN AOIDAN, •• Nel ventre tuo, o nella mente m1a, " Yes, Milady, precisely, If you wd have anythmg properly made " " Faz1amo tutte le due " No, not m the palm-room " The lady says 1t ts Too cold m the palm-room Des valeurs,

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Nom de Dieu, et encore des valeurs She IS submarme, she IS an octopus, she IS A biologtcal process, So Arnaut turned there Above him the wave pattern cut m the stone Spire-top alevel the well-curb And the tower With cut stone above that, saymg .. I am afraid of the hfe after death " and after a pause •• Now, at last, I have shocked hun " And another day or evemng toward sundown by the arena (les gradms) A httle lace at the wrist And not very clean lace either And I, •• But this beats me, .. Beats me, I mean that I do not understand It , •• Tius love of death that IS m them " Let us consrder the osmosrs of persons nondum orto JUbare, The tower, Ivory, the clear sky Ivory ngid m sunhght And the p ale clear of the heaven Pho1.bos of narrow thighs, The cut cool of the air, Blossom cut on the wmd, by Hehos Lord of the Light's edge, and Apnl Blown round the feet of the God, Beauty on an ass-cart Sittmg on :five sacks of laundry That wd have been the road by Perugia That leads out to San Piero Eyes brown topaz, Brookwater over brown sand, The white hounds on the slope,

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Ghde of water, hghts and the prore, Silver beaks out of mght, Stone, bough over bough, lamps fl.wd m water, Pme by the black trunk of 1ts shadow And on hill black trunks of the shadow The trees melted m a1r

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OMPLEYNT,

XXX

compleynt I hearde upon a day, Artem1s smgmg, Artem1s, Artemis Agaynst Pity hfted her wall P1ty causeth the forests to fa1l, P1ty slayeth my nymphs, P1ty spareth so many an evJ thmg P1ty befouleth Apnl, P1ty 1s the root and the sprmg Now 1f no fayre creature followeth me It 1s on account of P1ty, It 1s on account that P1ty forb1deth them slaye All thmgs are made foul m th1s season, Th1s 1s the reason, none may seek punty Havmg for foulnesse p1ty And thmgs growne awry , No more do my shaftes fly To slay Notrung 1s now clean slayne But rotteth away In Paphos, on a day I also heard goeth not With young Mars to playe But she hath p1ty on a doddenng fool, She tendeth h1s fyre, She keepeth h1s embers warm Ev1l A day, and a day Walked the young Pedro baffied, a day and a day

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After lgnez was murdered Came the Lords m L1sboa a day, and a day In homage Seated there dead eyes, Dead hatr under the crown, The Kmg sttll young there beside her Came Madame 'TAH Clothed wtth the hght of the altar And With the pnce of the candles .. Honour) Balls for yr honour' Take two muhon and swallow It " Is come Messire Alfonso And ts departed by boat for Ferrara And has passed here without saymg " 0 " Whence have we carved 1t m metal Here workmg m Caesar's fane To the Pnnce Caesare Borgta Duke of Valent and Aemeha and here have I brought cutters of letters and pnnters not vue and vulgar (m Fano Caesans) notable and sufficient composttors and a die-cutter for greek fonts and hebrew named Messire Francesco da Bologna not only of the usual types but he hath excogttated a new form called curstve or chancellry letters nor was 1t Aldous nor any other but 1t was thts Messtre Francesco who hath cut all Aldous hts letters With such grace and charm as IS known Hxeronymous Soncmus 7th July 1 503 and as for text we have taken tt

from that of Mess1re Laurentms and from a codex once of the Lords Malatesta And 1n August that year d1ed Pope Alessandro Borg1a, 11 Papa mon

Exphctt canto XXX

ELE VEN NEW CANTOS XXXI - XL I

T

EMPUS

XXXI

loquend1, Tempus tacend1 Sa1d Mr Jefferson It wd have g�ven us trme •• modern dress for your statue " I remember havmg written you whue Congress sat at An­ napohs, •• on water commumcation between ours and the western country, •• particularly the mformat10n of the plam between " Big Beaver and Cayohoga, which made me hope that a canal navigatiOn of Lake Ene and the Ohio You must have had " occasion of gettmg better mformatiOn on this subJeCt " and If you have you wd obhge me " by a communication of 1t I consider this canal, " 1£ practicable, as a very rmportant work T J to General Washmgton, 1787

no slaves north of Maryland dxstr1ct flower found m Connectxcut that vegetates when suspended 1n air screw more effectual If placed below surface of water Suspect that a countryman of ours, Mr Bushnell of ConnectiCUt IS entitled to the ment of pnor diScovery Excellency Mr Adams Excellency Dr Frankhn And thus Mr Jefferson (president) to Tom Pame " You expressed a Wish to get a passage to thxs country m a pubhc vessel Mr Dawson IS charged With orders to the captam of the 'Maryland' to receive and accommodate you With passage back, If you can depart on so short a warnmg 153

m hopes you will :find us returned to sentiments worthy of former time m these you have laboured as much as any man hvmg That you may long hve to contmue your labours and to reap their :fittmg reward Assurances of my high esteem and attachment "

.. Enghsh papers their hes m a few years no slaves northward of Marylai"d .. The1r tobacco, 9 m1lhons, dehvered m port of France , 6 m1lhons to manufacture on which the kmg takes th1rty milhon that cost 2 5 odd to collect so that m all 1t costs 72 m1lhons hvres to the consumer persuaded (I am) m thiS branch of the revenue the collectiOn absorbs too much (from Pans, 1 7 8 5 ) for our model, the Ma1son Quarree of NIsmes W1th respect to h1s motives (Madison wntmg) I acknowledged I had been much puzzled to divme any natural ones Without lookmg deeper mto human nature than I was Wlllmg to do (m re/ Mr Robert Smith) So cntical the state of that country moneyed men I rmagme are glad to place their money abroad Mr Adams could borrow there for us This country 1s really supposed to be on the eve of a XTZBK49HT

(parts of thts letter t1t cypher) Jefferson, from Paris, to Madison, Aug 2, 1 7 8 7 I hear that M r BeaumarchalS means to make hrmself heard turn through the Potomac, commerce of Lake Ene I can further say With safety there 1s not a crowned head

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Europe whose talents or merits would entitle h1m to be elected a vestryman by any Amer1can pansh T J to General Washmgton, May 2 '8 8

1.11

•• When Lafayette harangued you and me and John Qumcy

Adams .. through a whole evenmg m your hotel m the Cul de Sac silent as you were I was, m plam truth as astomshed .. at the grossness of his Ignorance of government and history, .. as I had been for years before at that of Turgot, .. La Rochefoucauld, of Condorcet and of Frankhn " To Mr Jefferson, Mr John Adams ••

care of the letters now enclosed Most of them are of a complexiOn not proper for the eye of the pohce From Monticello, April x 6th x 8 I I To Mr Barlow departmg for Pans mdebted to nobody for more cordial a1d than to Gallatm .. Adair too had Ius kmk He believed all the Indians of •• Amenca to be descended from the JeWs " Mr Jefferson to Mr Adams .. But obse1 ve that the pubhc were at the same t1me paymg on It an mterest of exactly the same amount (four nulhon dollars) Where then IS the gam to e1the1 party wruch makes lt a pubhc blessmg') , to Mr Eppes, x 8 x 3 .. Man, a rat1onal creature ' ' ' sa1d Franklm .. Come, let us suppose a rat1onal man •• Strip h1m of all his appetites, especially h1s hunger and thirst •• He IS m his chamber, engaged m makmg expernnents, •• Or m pursumg some problem •• At this moment a servant knocks ' S1r, •• • dmner IS on the table ' .. • Ham and chickens') ' • Ham I '

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" • And

must I break the cham of my thoughts to

" • go down and gnaw a morsel of damned hog's arse? Put aside your ham , I will dme tomorrow, '

" •

Take away appetite, and the present generation would not Lxve a month, and no future generation would ex1st , and thus the exalted digmty of human nature etc Mr Adams to Mr Jefferson, I 5 Nov

I8I3

" wxsh that I cd subJOin Gosxndx's Syntagma " of the doctnnes of Epicurus (Mr Adams ) ••

this was the state of thmgs m I 7 8 5

'' ( Mr Jefferson )

met by agreement, about the close of the sessxon­ Patrxck Henry, Frank Lee and your father, Henry Lee and myself to consult measures cxrcumstances of trmes seemed to call for produce some channel of correspondence this was m '7 3 Jefferson to D Carr church of St Peter

human reason, human conscience,

though I believe that there are such thmgs

Mr Adams A txel lexs

en ancten scnpture, and thxs

they have translated

Holy Scrzpture Mr Jefferson

and they contmue th1s error " Bonaparte knowmg nothmg of commerce or paupers, who are about one fifth of the whole (on the state of England m

x 8 I4)

Hzc Explzczt Cantus

T

XXXII

HE

revolution," said Mr Adams, " Took place m the mmds of the people " With SiXty cannon, ten t ons of powder, x o,ooo muskets and bayonets, lead, bed-covers,

umforms and a colonel, to affirm their neutrahty the Amphltnte departed the tenth of March to her first destmatlon

and a fourth which orders the hquidatlOn and payment of what remams due to the Merchants

of Morea et des dettes des dztes Echelles as you may read dans les arrets pnnczpaux du Consezl, decembre, ,sozxante szx armes et autres ustenczles quz ne peuvent etre que pour le compte du gouvernement Monszeur Samt-Ltbtn tres au fatt des langues du Pays, connu des Nababs especially Hyder Ah

pour l'e'Cctter, et a tazller des croupzeres to the Anglozs peu delzcat sur les moyens to break up our bonds With the Portagoose and as for the Amph1tnte, M'lorrd she fits under Beaumarchais' superviSion, her cargo mamly mumtwns Wttnesses Will some of them prove that he (Burr) had no mterest

m

the Oh10 canal coram non JUdice

as usual where an opm10n 1s to be supported nght or wrong, dwells on smaller obJeCtiOns and passes over the sohd Oryzta mutica, the upland or mountam r1ce seed of perenmal succory

very famous turntp of Sweden

I pray you place me rectus m cuna m th1s busmess wtth the Emperor (Alexander) and to assure hun

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that I carry mto my rettrement the highest veneratton for hts disposttlOns to better at least m some degree the conditiOn of man oppressed If you return to us, to bnng me a couple much destred that war be of shepherd dogs, true-bred avOided type-foundmg to which .mtimony 1s essenttal, I therefore place Mr Ronaldson m your hands be avotded, If circumstances wtll admtt for CIVIhzmg the mdtans, great Improvement on the anctent meffectual whtch began Wtth rehg10us mtmstration:; The followmg has been successful Fmt, to ratse cattle whereby to acqutre a sense of the value of property anthmettc to compute that value, thirdly wntmg, to keep accounts, and here they begm to labour, enclose farms, and the women to weave and spm fourth to read Aesop's Fables, whtch are therr first dehght along With Robmson Crusoe Creeks, Cherokees, the latter now mstitutmg a government and as many, JUSt as respectable, swore to the contrary all of whom present at the sermon deem 1t necessary to keep them down by hard labour, poverty, Ignorance, and to take from them, as from bees, so much of thetr earnmgs as that unremtttmg labour shall be necessary to obtam a sufficient surplus barely to sustam a scant hfe And these earnmgs they apply to rnamtam thetr pnvtleged orders m splendour and tdleness to fascmate the eyes of the people as to an order of supenor bemgs June r z, '23 to Judge Johnson whether m a stye, stable or state-room, let everythmg bend before them and bamsh whatever might lead them to thmk and thus are become as mere amrnals

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Canmbals of Europe are eatmg one another agam out of hts case, to say what the law m a moot case would be, Judge Marshall Is Irregular ammal is entirely Without thought If depnved of that organ Mr Adams to Mr Jefferson whether

m a stye, a st'lble or m a stateroom Louts Stxteenth was a fool The Kmg of Spam was a fool, the Kmg of Naples a fool they despatched two courrters weekly to tell each other, over a thousand miles what they had killed the Kmg of Sardmta was, hke all the Bourbons, a fool, the Portuguese Queen a Braganza and therefore by nature an td10t, The successor to Frederic of Prussta, a mere hog m body and mmd, Gustavus and Joseph of Austna were as you know really crazy, and George 3d was m a stratght waistcoat,

there remamed none but old Catherme, too lately ptcked up by whtch we are m the constant practtce of changmg the characters and propensities of the ammals we raise for our purposes a gwsa de leon The canmbals of Europe are eatmg one another agam quando s1 posa

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s

XXXIII Qumcey Nov

1 3, 1 8 1 5

that despotism or absolute power unhmited sovereignty, IS

the same m a maJOrity of a popular assembly,

an anstocratical counc1l, an oligarchical JUnto,

and a smgle emperor, equally arbitrary, bloody, and m every respect diabohcal Wherever It has resided has never failed to destroy all records, memonals, all histones wh1ch It did not hke, and to corrupt those 1t was cunnmg enough to preserve If the troops cd be fed upon long letters, I beheve the gent at the head of that dept

( m this country) wd be the best

commissary on earth But till I see h1m determmed to act, not to wnte , to sacnfice his domestic ease to the duties of his appomtment, and apply the resources of th1s country, wheresoever they are to be had, I must entertam a d1fferent opimon of him T J to P Henry, March '79 over five and twenty mtlhons of people, when four and twenty :rrulhons and five hundred thousand of them can neither read nor wnte as rmpracticable as 1t wd be over elephants m the Menagene at Versaxlles Napoleon has mvented a word, Ideology, wh1ch expresses my opm10n how far advanced we were m the science of aristocracy smce the stalhons of Theogn1s Have not Chancellor L1vmgston and MaJor General Humphnes mtroduced an anstocracy of Mermo sheep entaxled upon us and forever

JObbers and stock JObbers to endless generat1ons I 6o

of land

AGATHOS, eternal and self-existent J A I8I5 multiphcatton o f officers and salanes merely t o make par­ tisans That this possessor be kalos k'agathos, theocrat, baron, boJar or nch man matters very httle difference ascnbed to our supenonty m takmg aim when we fire « I speak of the Grand Duke of Tuscany (T J to J A '77) somewhat avanctous m hts nature crowns lymg dead m hiS coffers, apphcat10n perhaps from Dr Frankhn wd be prudent to sound well before hand " Condorcet has let the cat out of the bag He has made precious confessiOns I regret that I have only an Enghsh translatiOn of his « Outhne of the Htstoncal Vtew of the Progress of the Human Mmd " But m pages 247, 248 and 249 you Wlll find It frankly acknowledged that the phtlosophers of the etghteenth century adopted all the arts of the Phamees was m the mmds of the people, and this was effected from r760 to 1775 m the course of fifteen years before Lex­ mgton removal wd be necessary to more able comnussanes rather than to a more plenttful country ( T J on provtsions ) Bonaparte, Poor Devtl ' what has and what wtll become of htm Cromwell, Wat Tyler, Jack Cade, I e to a bad end And Wellington, envted, despised by all the barons, earls,. VIscounts, a� an upstart, a parvenue elated over thetr heads. (Mr Adams to Thomas Jefferson ) Lttterae mhtl sanantes whether serpents' teeth sprang up men . cannot appease my melancholy commtseratlOn for our r6r

ar111u.s m this funous snow storm (Qumcey, November 1 5 th ) But two thmgs I did learn from him (Plato)

That Frankhn's

Idea of exemptmg husbandmen and mauners etc from the depredations of war was borrowed f10m him and (secondly) that sneezmg IS a cure for the h!Cl-..ups but to keep 111 countenance the fundmg and bankmg system orations, prayers, sermons

not that they loved General

Washmgton, but merely to disgrace the old Whigs

$75,000 equal to r,ooo specie (Feb 1 78 r ) settler will be wo1th to the pubhc 20 times as much every year, as m our old plan he would have paxd 111 a smgle payment hrruts of hiS md1vxduahty (cancels ) and develops his power as a specie

(Das Kapttal) denounced m 1 842 still cont111ue

( today r 8 64) report of '42 was merely chucked mto the archives and remamed there while these boys were ru111ed and became fathers of this generation for workshops rema111ed a dead letter down to r 87 r when was tal..en from control of mumcipal and placed m hands of the factory mspectors, to whose body they added eight ( 8 ) assistants to deal With over one hundred thousand workshops and over 3 oo tile yards Rogxer (mmxster) told me that this government ( Brussels ) had been mtendmg to mtroduce such a law but found Itself (re/ child labour not hm1ted to 12 hours per day) always blocked by the Jealous uneasmess that met any law tamp­ ermg With the absolute freedom of labour Lord H de Walden from Brussels r 8 62 They ( the owners) denounced the mspectors as a species of revolutionary commissar p1tilessly sacnfi.cmg the unfortu-

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nate labourers to their humamtanan fantasies (re/ the law of 1 84 8 ) that n o factory-owner shall Sit as a magtstrate m cases concern­ mg the spmnmg of cotton (Factory Act of John Hobhouse) nor shall his father, brother, or son And If the same small boys are merely shifted from the spmnmg room to the weavmg room or from one factory to another, how can the mspector venfy the number of hours they are worked'> ( 1 849, Leonard Horner) Case where the JUry ('62 ) was to dectde whether soot adul­ terated With 90% of dust and sand was •• adulterated-m­ the-legal-sense " soot or m the commerctal " real soot " As fnends of commerce decided (the JUry decided) 1t was •• real soot " agamst the plamtlff Wtth costs avenement revolutiOn allemande posait des problemes nouveaux, routme commerctal etre remplacee par creation de deux fonds or et ble destmes au proletanat VIctoneux (allemand) to funct10nanes of legation m Berlm who are members of the party ( 192 3 ) bureaucrat palSlble, Van Tzm Vet s e mantra, tout a fa1t mcap­ able d'assumer le role de chef d'une revolution sangumatre ( accordmg to Mons1eur Bessedovsky) for ten years our (Russian) ambassadors have enqmred what theones are m fashton m Moscow and have reported thetr facts to fit (1dem) Buls discounted at exhorbttant rates, four tunes or three ttmes those offered by the Midland 1 50 muhons 1 63

yearly, merely m usunous d1scounts 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 " You have got more than your share, we want you to reduce, we can not let you have any more " (Mr Brooh.hart) page 34 of the mmutes then they adopted another resolutwn page 42 committee of mterstate commerce, ask mcrease of rallroad rates, sa1d to them wd suggest, gentlemen, you be careful not to giVe out anythmg about any dis­ cussion of discount rates d1sturbs everybody Immediate rush never d1scuss m the newspapers & Company's banker was m that meetmg, and next day he was out after a loan of 6o m1lhons, and got 1t Swift­ amoursmclarr but the country at large d1d not know 1t The meetmg dec1ded we were over-mflated •

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beasts, grasses, petnfactiOns, btrds, mcrustatiOns, Dr Mitchell's conversatwn was vanous And a black m anservant, to embark on a voyage to

Russxa Consistent With thexr peace and their separatxon from Europe Enghsh pretentwns, exclusive, auf dem Wasser (a d x 8 o9 ) En fatt de commerce ce (Bonaparte) est un etourdi," satd Romanzoff Freedom of admxsston for ships, freedom of departure, freedom of purchase and sale Are the only members of the corps dtplomatxque who have an1 mterest m hterature, conversatxon we talked of Shakespeare, Mxlton, Vxrgxl and of the Abbe Dehlle " Monsxeur Adams " saxd the Emperor, cc xi y a cent ans que Je ne vous ax vu " June 4th x 8 u The xdea occurred to me of a treaty of commerce Told hxm hxs government wd probably make our peace " How' '' satd the ambassador ( french) .. By not keepmg her word " And he, Bonaparte, satd to Romanzo:ff "' After the peace of Tilstt, where cd I go but Spam') " For he must always be gotng It IS reported that the two empresses wxll return to the City As ts satd to be customary At least m wars un peu mteressantes, which war Alexander Has done all he can to prevent French army 5 00 thousand, the Russ1an 300 thousand, But countmg on space and txme 1 65

.. The fifth element mud " said Napoleon A black, Claud Gabnel, m the emperor's service Was very ul used m Arnenca Aug I 4th to Oramenbaum Where was Ld Cathcart ( th'lt IS, at Madame de Stael's) And she wanted to know how she cd Receive her mterest from Umted States funds While m England, and a war on between them Here the nobihty have given one man to the army From every ten of their peasants Qu'Il fit la sottise de Moscou and he, Bonaparte had to borrow SIX shtrts from hiS rnmister, and four thousand !oms Mr Gallatm, Mr Bayard answer from Romanzoff Mr Gallatm did not thmk that " they cd " ( dtd not thmk that our actions m Florida could be ;ustifi.ed) Agamst nghts on the MisSISSippi our Rights to fish, dry fish and cure off Newfoundland At the opera Tamerlan, and the ballet of T elemaque x 8 r 5 , March r 8th was expected (Bonaparte) last mght at Auxerre, Ney to be here ( Pans) tomorrow, because 1t IS the KJ.ng of Rome's birthday March twentieth The Kmg, Bourbon, left the Tutllenes, To take, they say, the road gomg toward Beauvais At the Seance Royale last Thursday he had talked of His death m defence of the country And when they Wish to make the troops cheer, the Soldiers say Ah, voui, VIve le R01 Newspaper this mornmg headed Journal de l'Emptre arnved last evemng W1th the troops that had been sent out agamst him whtch 1s due to Bourbon misconduct I told h1m (Str James Mackmtosh) that I D1d not beheve Dr Franklm or Washmgton

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Had wanted the revolution He asked If any leadmg man had I said, my father, perhaps, S'lmuel Adams, James Otis (And on hts return was reed by Gouverneur Morns and Mr Astor With a pubk dmner at Tammany Hall ) And one mght a dead fowl was tied to Mr Oms's bell rope, As ( m hts eyes) a gt dishonour to Spam Mr Jefferson remarked that fond as he was of agnculture He knew nothmg about It tho' Mr Madtson dtd Mr Madtson was very efficient m the convention of '87 ' Mr Bagot has been a much better mmister " than a much abler man wd have been, better " for the mterest of England, better " for the tranquillity of this country " DeWitt Clmton Never more low and discredited Than JUSt before bemg elected ( comma) Without oppositiOn (comma) Governor of New York State " a misanthropist, an unsocxal savage " J Q A on himself Ban1..s breakmg all over the country, Some m a sneakmg, some 1n an 1mpertment manner prostrate every prmcxple of economy Jan 1 8th 1 8 20 I ( J Q A ) called at the President's And the President sa1d Colonel Johnson mtght have been more worthily occupted tha'"l m actmg as medium for proposal of furmshmg ten thousand stand of arms to Venezuela m order to make a JOb for Duane a d 1 820 IS that moral consideratiOns seldom appear to have much weight m the mmds of statesmen unless connected With popular feehngs whtle professmg neutrality (himself to hue men from our army 1 67

secretemme, on the qUlet) Monroe admits It No one else seems to mmd but the VIce-presidency ISto call thmgs by their proper names-m the market .. Defective m elementary knowledge and With a very undigested system of ethics, Mr Cby ( Henry) " After conversmg With Mr Calhoun, Ad1ms reflected Paper currency reductions of fictitious capital AccumulatiOn of debts as long as credit can be stramed Mr Noah has a proJect for colomzmg Jews m this country And wd hke a JOb m VIenna Xmas, x 8 zo, read aloud after breakfast From Pope's " Messiah " Not one of my family Except George, appeared to take the least mterest, Nor IS there any one of them who has a rehsh for literature I have been a lawyer for bread, a statesman at the call of my country Plam modest and tasteless monuments to George Clmton and Elbndge Gerry we have neither forefathers nor postenty, a few years will efface them half educated, hke almost all emment men m this country Calhoun thought we ought m no case attend a congress of the alhes England more by her mterest than from pnnciple of general hberty We shd separate from all European concerns Who have followed (maiden ladies have followed) General Lafayette from Europe to Lisses Oct 2 '24 So that when Washmgton left the senate chamber he said he Wd be damned If he ever went there a gam They ( congress) wd do nothmg for the education of boys but to make soldiers, they x 68

wd not endow a umversity (m I 8z 6 ) Black walnut, almond planted m sprmg take two months precisely to vegetate to the surface This has been (May z6th) a harassmg day but I perceived a tamannd h eavmg up the earth m tumbler number 2, and m tumbler number one, planted Interfere With official duty� I said I thought that It wd as the U S was mterested

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the Canal Company by their subscnption of one m1lhon dollars. Readmg Evelyn's « Sylva " and makmg Tnv1al observations upon the vegetation of trees until dark Some senstbihty at partmg� Clay expressed a Wish to hear from me now and aga.n '' There 1s somethmg strange, and which wd now be thought very affected m the language of Shakespeare Whose common thoughts are expressed m uncommon wo1ds " (diary March I 8 2 9 ) But of late years have lost rehsh for fict10n December 1 3 th Mrs Eaton and accordmgly she (Mrs Calhoun) remams tn the untamted atmosphere of S Carohna Enghsh « Quarterly RevieW " for November, two art1cles of vutficatiOn Calhoun heads the moral party, Mr Van Buren President Jackson's sp1ttm' box and a broken p1pe on the floor I called upon Ntcholas Btddle and reed two dividends of my bank stock as I mtght be called to take part m pubhc measures I Wished to d1vest myself of all personal mterest Nov 9 '3 1 •• I took seat Number 203 " J Q Adams

asked hrm (Mr Webster) hts VIews on the drmmut10n 10 the tanff 1 69

I satd I had no deme that the mterruptton o{ soc1al mtercourse between Gen Jackson and me shd contmue (March second ) �o f1r, so good a rest1tut1on of 1t cd not f;ul to c:x.pose me to obloquy March the thtrd Dmed Wtth Mr Webster upon salmon sent from New Yark Mtss Martmeau author of C01wersatt011s upon Polztrcal

Economy a young woman deaf and heanng only through an eartrumpet Her conversation 1s hvely and easy The reasonmg of Mr Clay, Mr Calhoun, Mr Webster 1s shallow, they speak to popular preJudtce The old states w1ll so sacnfice all therr nghts to the pubhc lands L'am1 de tout le monde, Martm Van Buren Mr Webster, a man of straw m the yard of the Pres1dent's house It ts satd that thetr obJect was to remonstrate agamst workmg more than ten hours a day (Apnl 1 3 th '37) At the Prestdent's house and had Wtth hrm conversatiOn respectmg the chmate, Queen Vtctona and the weather Legare wd retort upon them by preachmg to the labourer9 Insurrection agamst the capttahsts of the North Senate Chamber where I found htm (J Calhoun) d1scoursmg to hiS own honour and glory and Vltuperatmg Mr Clay after batthng w1th each other on the atonement, Chnst and the Tnmty phrenology and ammal magnet1sm Ttppecanoe clubs students of colleges, schoolboys

The world, the flesh, the devtls m hell are Agamst any man who now m the North Amencan Umon shall dare to JOID the standard of Alrmghty God to Put down the Afncan slave trade what can I 1 70

Seventy-four years, verge of my bxrthday, shakmg hand for the suppresSlon of the Afncan slave trade Van Buren agamst more than te"l hours a day Harrxson on a mean-lookmg horse was amxable and benevolent Adrnmxstratxon wxll waddle along haec sunt mfam1ae wrongs of the Cherokee nat1on These are the sms of Georgxa These are the hes These are the mfanues These are the broken contracts Buchanan the shade of a shade, 'icott a daguerreotype of a likeness Mr Dan Webster spoutmg, Tyler's nose outreachmg the munyment Gun barrels, black walnut

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( may we take It ) Mltteleuropa

Mr Corles was m command of machme guns but when the t1me came t o fire he merely ht a c1garette and walked away from hts battery and seated h1mself m a :field, So some subaltern gave the order to :fire and Mr Corles dtd not suffer the extreme penalty because his famrly was a very good bourgeois farmly m Vrenna and he was therefor sent to a mmd sanatonum Mr Ftdascz explamed to me the horrors of playmg the fiddle whtle that ass N ataanov1tch, .or some other bette1 known -ovttch whose name we must respect because of the law of hbel, was conductmg m parttcular the Mattias Passion, after requestmg that the audtence come m black clothes , And the Fraulem Doktor nearly wept over the Tyrol, bemg mcapable of seemg that the century-old JOke on Itaha was now on somebody else though If they cd sentimentalize over t-hat lousy old b ewhiSkered sonvabttch Fran�oiS Giuseppe of whom nothmg good Is recorded-m fact With the most patient researchnothmg good IS recorded and so forth thiS IS Mitteleuropa and Ts1eV1tz has explamed to me the warmth of affections, the mtramural, the almost mtravagmal warmth of

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hebrew affections, m the fanuly, and nearly everythmg else pomtmg out that Mr Lewmesholme has suffered by depnvatwn of same and exposure to Amencan snobbery " I am a product," said the young lady, " of Mitteleuropa," but she seemed to have been able to mob1hze and the fine trung was that the family did not wire about papa's death for fear of disturbmg the concert which might seem to contradict the general mdefimte wobble It must be rather hke some mternal organ, some communal hfe of the pancreas

sensitiVIty

Without drrect10n this IS Oh yes, there are nobles, still mterested m polo

sa1d the whormg countess of course there were nobles Mister Axon the usually so mtelhgent was after two lunches With Dortmund unable, m fact he was

quite unable to play respectable chess and the younger Alex1 after hvmg With Mu1 phy was observed to be gray m the guls through a presumed loss of VItahty we have said that stupidity IS contagious, the divorce of Potemkm was Impeded by the death of his grandmother and a resurgence of fanuly feehng His Wife now acts as hxs model and the Egena

has, let us say, marrxed a realtor Havmg resigned overt

mtentiOn to remarry, the w1dow, once the rose,

spends her time now plagumg her daughter, and

Mr Ehas said to me .. How do you get msptration? •• Now my fnend Hall Came told me he came on a case

.. a very sad case of a g�rl m the East End of London •• and It gave hrm an 1 n s p 1 r a t I o n

The only

•• way I get msprratlon IS occasionally from a grrl, I •• mean sometxmes sittmg m a restaurant and

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.. get an i-de-a, 1-mean-a biz-ms I-de-a'> '' dxxxt sxc fehx Ehas ' The tale of the perfect schnorrer a peautxful chewxsch poy Wit 'l YO-ICe dot WOult meldt dh heart offa schtone .md wxt a hkemg for to make arht-voxks and ven dh oldt ladty wasn't dhere any more and dey didn't know why, tdhere ee woss m the oldt antxque schop and nobodty knew how he got dhere and venn hiSs brudder dxet wxdout any bapers he vept all ofer dh garpet so much he had to have hiS clothes aftervards pressed and he orderet a magmfficent funeral and tden zent dh pxll to dh vtfe But when they have htgh cheek-bones they are supposed to be Mongol ElJen' ElJen Hatvany ' He had xdeals and he satd to the general at the conference, " I mtroduce to you the head of the b-.kers' umon " I mtroduce to you the head of the bnck-layets' umon '' " Comment' Vous etes tombes Sl bas'> , rephed General Franchet de Whatshxsname on the part of the french royalist party, showmg thus the use of 1deals to a Jewxsh Hunganan baron With a l1brary (naturally wxth a hbrary) and a fine collectxon of pamtmgs) " We find the land over, bramed . saxd the boJarS or whatever the old savages call xt as they hung thexr old huntsman fnend to h1s chandelier 111 rus dmmg hall after the usual feastmg and flagons VIRTUSCHI I 1t must be one helluva country Item That there be made a fontego (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

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to be sold a schavezo at a pnce as If wholesale plus only the proportiOn of the tax for the retail so that Mantua cloth bemg cheap as m countnes CircumJacerlt .md that Bresc1ans, Cremones1, Parmenes1, Resanesi who now go to Verona where It IS cheaper as also our own townsfolk go there, they wd then come he1 e or stay here to the augment of mdustry and mcre:tse m the retail tax and all of the other ta:li.es Item for the mcrease of this art shd be a man stationed m Vemce to sell what we can't sell here Item a dye works that they can dye the pledged cloth and that :fi.ndmg he1e doth well coloured m:fi.c1t umbras the Romagnols wd come here to Mantua, and the March folk who now go to Verona to buy all of which wd be gam to this mdustry, bnng more people to hve here ·md be of great use to yr taxes Mantua 140 1, una gnda When the stars fall from the ohve Or With four pomts 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 Vemce b e luogo d1 contratto m ay we say the place where the deal IS made and the pro:fi.ts most assuredly from the pocket of the last man who buys j exempt from customs be food stuffs and nothmg else so exempted 9 per cent m, and 9 out, for the upkeep of c c The Donunant " and De Gama (Vasco) a great mconvemence m fact the worst news that there could be but Can Portugal keep It up'> omnes de partibus ultramanms 175

needmg salt, made thetr peace wtth Ventce " who commands sea, commands trade " let the rest provtde for " The Donunant," " V1ctona'> " Where 'ave I 'eard that nayme'� " Undersell, overbuy, mamtam defence of the sea route a d 142 3 et cetera 9 % m and 9 out, no export of sand, alkah, rags Quahty So that our goods please the buyer Tell the Waztr that that stuff 1s ours only m name 1t ts made by damned JeWs m extle, made by damned Jews m Ragusa and sold wtth Venettan labels Goods m Venettan bottoms no shtp to be btult out of Ventce Mocentgo Fourteen twenty-three Have a load-lme, no heavy deck ca1go Tola, octrot and decrme

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ADY asks me I speak m season She seeks reason for an affect, Wild often That IS so proud he hath Love for a name

W ho denys 1t can hear the truth now Wherefore I speak to the present knowers Havmg no hope that low-hearted

Can brmg sight to such reason Be there not natural demonstration I have no Wlll to try proof-brmgmg Or say where 1t hath bmh What IS 1ts VIrtu and power Its bemg and every movmg Or dehght whereby 'tis called •• to love " Or If man can show 1t to sight Where memory hveth,

1t takes Its state Formed hke a diafan from hght on shade Which shadow cometh of Mars and remameth Created, havmg a name sensate, Custom of the soul, Wlll from the heart, Cometh from a seen form wruch bemg understood Taketh locus and remammg m the mtellect possible Wherem hath he neither weight nor stul-standmg, Descendeth not by quahty but shmeth out Himself h1s own effect unendmgly Not m dehght but m the bemg aware Nor can he leave his true hkeness otherwhere 1 77

He 1s not vertu but cometh of that perfectiOn

Which 1s so postulate not by the reason But 'tis felt, I say Beyond salvation, holdeth his JUdgmg force Deemmg mtent10n to be reason's peer and mate, Poor m discernment, bemg thus weakness' fnend Often his power cometh on death m the end, Be 1t Wlthstayed and so swmgmg counterwetght Not that 1t were natural oppostte, but only Wry'd a btt from the perfect, Let no man say love cometh from chance Or hath not established lordshtp Holdmg hiS power even though Memory hath htm no more

Cometh he to be

when the wtll From overplus TWlsteth out of natural measure, Never adorned Wlth rest Moveth he changmg colour Etther to laugh or weep Contortmg the face With fear resteth but a httle Yet shall ye see of hrm That he 1s most often Wtth folk who deserve htm And h1s strange quahty sets stghs to move Wtlhng man look mto that formed trace m hts rmnd And With such uneasmess as rouseth the flame Unskilled can not form hts tmage, He hunself moveth not, drawmg all to h1s stillness, Netther turneth about to seck hts dehght Nor yet to seek out provmg Be 1t so great or so small

He draweth hkeness and hue from hk.e !'atUle

So makmg pleasure more certam m seemmg Nor can stand h1d m such nearness, Beautys be darts tho' not savage Skilled from such fear a man follows Deservmg spmt, that p1erceth Nor 1s he known from h1s face But taken m the whtte hght that 1s allness Toucheth his aim Who heareth, seeth not form But IS led by Its emanatwn Bemg diVIded, set out from colour, DISJUnct m rmd darkness Grazeth the hght, one movmg by other, Bemg divided, divided from all falsity Worthy of trust From h1m alone mercy proceedeth

Go, song, surely thou mayest

Whither 1t please thee For so art thou ornate that thy reasons Shall be praised from thy understanders, With others hast thou no wul to make company •• Called thrones, balasc10 or topaze " Enugma was not understood m his time .. which explams, perhaps, the delay m condemmng hun " And they went lookmg for Mamcheans And found, so far as I can make out, no Mamcheans So they dug for, and damned Scotus Enugma .. Authonty comes from nght reason, never the other way on " Hence the delay m condemnmg h1m Aqumas head down m a vacuum, Aristotle which way m a vacuum'>

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Sacrum, sacrum, mlummatiO COitU Lo Sordels si fo di Mantovana of a castle named Gotto " Five castles' •• Five castles I " (kmg glV' him five castles) , •• And what the hell do I know about dye-wor1..s :> l . His Hohness has wntten a letter •• CHARLES the Mangy of AnJou way you treat your men ts a scandal " Dilectts miles famtlians castra Montts Odonsu Montis Sanctt Silvestn pallete et pile In parttbus Thetxs vmeland land tilled the land mcult pratts nemonbus pascuts With legal JUnsdtctiOn his hexrs of both sexes, sold the damn lot sxx weeks later, Sordellus de God10 Quan ben m'albtr e mon ric pensamen

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shalt not," sa1d Martm Van Buren, •• JaU 'em for debt " .. that an tmmtgrant shd set out wtth good banknotes and :find 'em at the end of hts voyage but waste paper tf a man have m prrmeval forest set up hts cabm, shall nch patroon take tt from htm ;l Htgh Judges> Are, I suppose, subJect to pass10ns as have affected other great and good men, also subJeCt to esprtt de corps The Calhouns " remarked Mr Adams .. Have flocked to the standard of femmme v1rtue ,. .. Peggy Eaton's own story " ( Headhne 1 9 3 2 ) Shall we call m the world to conduct our mumctpal government> Ambrose (Mr ) Spencer, Mr Van Renselaer were agamst extenston of franchtse .. Who work m factones and are employed by the wealthy (State Convention I 82 I ) d1x1t Spencer .. Man who feeds, clothes, lodges another has absolute control over his Wlll " Kent satd they wd .. deplore m sackcloth and ashes 1f they preserved not a senate to represent landed mterest, and dtd they Jeopard property r1ghts> " To whom Mr Somebody Tompkms .. Ftiled your arrrues •• whtle the prtests were preachmg sed1t1on .. and men of wealth decrymg government credtt ,. •• m order to feed on the spotis " Two words, satd Mr Van Buren, came m wtth our revolut10n and, as a matter of fact, why are we sent here> •• as for you Mr Chtef Justlce Spencer r8x

« If they vote as they are hid by their employers they wtil vote for the property which you so Wish to protect " when a turnpike depends upon congres� local supervision IS lost not surrender our conduct to foreign associatiOns workmg classes who mostly have no control over paper, and denve no profit from bank stock merchants wtil not confess ove1 tradmg nor speculators the dispositiOn to speculate revenue for wants of the government to be kept under pubhc control do they pour national revenue mto banks of deposit m seasons of spec.ulation' drm1msh government patronage satior land not to be lashed save by court to actual settler (as agamst Mr Clay) And when her father went broke, Mr Eaton gave nse to Washmgton goss1p loose morals of Mr Jefferson, Servihty of Martm Van Buren, said Adams (J Qumcy) when everyone else IS unciVIl .. No where so well deposited as m the pants of the people, Wealth am't," said President Jackson They grve the umon five years Bank d1d not produce umform currency they wd Import gram rather than grow 1t Bank of England fatied to prevent uses of credit .. In Bankmg corporatiOns " said Mr Webster " the .. mterests of the nch and the poor are happtiy blended " Satd Van Buren to Mr Clay .. If you wtil give me •• A pmch of your excellent Maccoboy snuff "

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ln Europe often by pnvate houses, Without assistance of banks Rehef IS got not by mcrease but by dimmutiOn of debt as Justice Marshall, has gone out of his case Tip an' Tyler We'll bust Van's brier b10ught m the VICe of luxuna sed aureis furcuhs, which forks were bought back m the time of Pres1dent Monroe by Mr Lee our consul m Bordeaux " The man IS a dough-face, a profhgate," won't say he agrees With his party Authonzed Its (the bank's) president to use funds at discretiOn (Its funds, h1s discretiOn) to mfluence press veto power, With marked discretion, used no further than m obJeCtmg to bank under charter existing " Fnendly feelmg toward our bank m " the mmd of the President (Jackson whose autograph was sent to the Pnncess V1ctona) wrote B1ddle to Lennox Dec x 8 29 " Counter rumours. Without foundation, I had " a full and frank talk W1th the President who was « most kmd about Its (the bank's) serVIces to the country " Biddle to Hamilton m November •• To which end, largely mcreased lme of discounts

1 83 0, October, 40 mllhon May, 1 8 3 7 seventy millions and then some Remembered this m Sorrento " m the VIcmage of Vesuvtus near eJ..humed Herculaneum « 3 0 mxlhon " saxd Mr Dan Wester •• m states on the Mtssxssippi « will all have to be called m, m three 183

" years and nme months, If the charter be not extended " I hesertate nawt tew say et w11l dee-prec1erate " everyman's prorperty from the etcetera •• to the kepertal ov M1ssouu, affect the pnce of •• crawps, leynd en the prordewce ov labour, to the embararsement " de mortllls wrote Mr Van Buren don't qu1te apply xn a case of this character

4 to 5 nulhon balance m the national treasury Receipts 3 I to 3 2 m1lhon Revenue 3 2 to 3 3 mtihon The Bank 341 nulhon, and m depos1ts 6 mllhons of government money ( and a maJOnty xn the Senate) Pubhc Money m control of the President from I 5 to 20 thousand ( 1d est, a fund for the secret service) .. employmg means at the bank's disposal derangxng the country's credits, obtammg by pamc control over pubhc mmd " sa1d Van Bu1en .. from the real committee of Bank's directors the government's directors have been excluded Bank prestdent controllmg government's funds to the betrayal of the nation government funds obstructmg the government and has sequestered the said funds of the government (With chapter, date, verse and CitatiOn) actmg m Illegal secret pourmg oll on the press g1vmg nommal loans on mexistent secunty '' m the eighteen hundred and thrrt1es .. on precedent that Mr Hamllton has never hesitated to Jeopard the general for advance of particular mterests "

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'' Bank curtailed 17 milhon on a lme of 64 mtihon credits " Had not Mr Taney (of the treasury) prevented that branch ( m New York ) from then collectmg 8 mtihon 700 thousand and armed our City W1th 9 mtlhon to defend us (the whole country) m this war on Its trade and commerce, Cambrelmg, Globe Extra I 8 3 4 Peggy Eaton's Own Story And tf Marietta Had not put on her grandmother's dress She might have lasted, a mystery If Dolores Had not put on a hat shaped hke a wig She rmght have remamed an exotic Placmt ocuhs, and dxd not mmd strong cigars Irntable and unstable, Is formed, ts destroyed, Recomposes to be once more decomposed (thus, descendmg to plant hfe) Sorrento, June z rst VIlla Falangola In the vtcmage of Vesuvxus, m the mirror of memory Mr Van Buren Judge Yeats, whom I remember etc Warded off scrutmy of h1s mental capacities By a digm:fied and prudent reserve wluch long practice had made second nature Alex Hamilton had been blackmailed but preferred, m the end, pnvate scandal to shade on hxs pubhc career Marshall, said Roane, undermmed the U S ConstitUtion No man before Tom Jefferson m my house

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Said one of the wool-buyer� " Able speech by Van Buren " Yes, very able " " Ye-es, Mr Knower, an' on wtch stde ov the tanff was It;l " Po111t I was 111 the act of considenng " rephed Mr Knower In the rmrror of memory have been told I rendered the truth a great serv1ce by that speech on the tanff but dtrectness on all pomts wd seem not to have been tts consptcuous feature I thanked htm (James Jones, brother 111 law of Mt Cl111ton ) for his kmd offer but said my fortunes were too low 111 ebb for me at that moment to compromise Lacked not who said that John Adams dishked not so much the tdea of a monarch as preferred Bra111tree House over Hanover and his son, seekmg hght from the stars deplored that representatives be paralyzed by the wul of constituents •• I pubhcly answered more questiOns than all other presidents put together " signed Martm Van Buren •• Mr Webster 111 debt to the bank " Damned yellow rascal, satd Clay .. Unnecessary, therefore InJurious 111terference on the part of the govetnment And they and thetr gang m congress debated three months Without mtroducmg one sohtary propos1t1on to reverse Taney's deciSIOn or 111 any way to reheve any dtstress HIC

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that year Metevsky went over to Amenca del Sud (and the Pope's manners were so hke Mr Joyce's, got that way m the Vat1can, weren't hke that before) Marcom knelt m the ancient manner hke ]tmmy Walker saym' his prayers His Holmess expressed a pohte cunosity as to how His Excellency had chased those electnc shakes through the a'mosphere LucreZia Wanted a rabb1t's foot, and he, Metevsky said to the one s1de (three children, five abort10ns and dted of the last) he said the other boys g " •• No, M1ss W1'let, •• On account of b1zschmz relat1ons " Sa1d the soap and bones dealer m May 1 9 1 4 And Mr Gandh1 thought 1£ we don't buy any cotton And at the same time don't buy any guns Monsteur Untel was not found at the Jockey Club but was, later, found m Japan And So-and-So had shares m MitSUl « The wood (walnut) wtll always be wanted for gunstocks " And they put up a watch factory outside Muscou And the watches kept trme Itahan marshes

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been waitmg smce Tibenus' t1me .. Marry " said Beebe, •• how do the fish hve m the sea " Rlvera, the Spamsh dictator, dictated that the Infante was physically unfit to mhent gothic type still used m V1enna because the old folks are used to that type And Schlossmann suggested that I stay there m VIenna As stool-pigeon agamst the Anschluss Because the Ausstnans needed a Buddha ( Seay, brother, I leev et tuh yew' ) The white man who made the tempest m Baluba Der rm Baluba das GeWitter gemacht hat they spell words With a drum beat, •• The country IS overbramed " said the hunganan nobleman m r 92 3 Kosouth (Ku' shoot) used, I understand To Sit m a cafe-all done by conversatiOnIt was all done by conversation, possibly because one repeats the pomt when conversmg .. VIenna contams a mixture of races " wd I stay and be Bhudd-ha' •• They are accustomed to havmg an Emperor They must have Somethmg to worsh1p ( I 927) " But their humour about losmg the Tyrol:> Their humour 1s not qwte so broad The ragged arab spoke With Frobemus and told him The names of 3 000 plants Bruhl found some languages full of detail Words that half mrmic actiOn, but generalization IS beyond them, a white dog 1s not, let us say, a dog hke a black dog Do not happen, Romeo and Juhet unhappily I have lost the cuttmg but apparently such thmgs do still happen, he swcided outside her door wlule I 89

the famxly was prepanng her body for bunal, and she knew that this was the case Green, black, December Sard Mr Blodgett " Sewxng machmes wul never come mto general use " I have of course never s·ud that the cash IS constant (Douglas) and m fact the population (Bntam 1 9 14) was left Wlth 8oo muhons of t r depostts " after all the cash had been drawn, and these depos1ts were satisfied by the pnntmg of treasury notes A factory has also another aspect, whtch we call the financ1al aspect It g�ves people the power to buy (wages, diVIdends whtch are power to buy) but 1t 1s also the cause of pnces or values, fi.nanctal, I mean financtal values It pays workers, and pays for matenal What 1t pays m wages and d1v1dends stays flUld, as power to buy, and this power 1s less, per forza, damn blast your mtellex, IS less than the total payments made by the factory (as wages, diVIdends AND payments for raw matenal bank charges, etcetera) and all, that lS the whole, that 1s the total of these 1s added mto the total of pnces caused by that factory, any damn factory and there 1s and must be therefore a clog and the power to purchase can never (under the present system) catch up With pnces at large, and the hght became so bnght and so bhndm" m th1s layer of parad1se that the mmd of man was bewrldered 1 90

Said Herr Krupp ( I 842 ) guns are a merchandise I approach them from the mdustnal end, I approach them from the techmcal side, I 847 orders from Pans and Egypt orders from the Cnmea, Order of Pietro ti Grande, and a Command m the Legton of Honour 5 00 to St Petersburg and 3 00 to Napo]eon Barbir.:hc from Creusot At Sadowa Austna had some Krupp cannon , PruSSia had some Krupp cannon .. The Emperor ( '68 ) IS deeply m'erested m yr catalogue and 10 yr servtces to humamty " (signed) Leboeuf who was a relative of Monsieur Schneider I 9 00 fifty thousand operai, 5 3 thousand cannon, about half for hts country, Bohlem und Halbach, Herr Schneider of Creusot Twm arse with one belly Eugene, Adolf and Alfred .. more money from guns than from tractties " Eugene was sent to the deputies , ( Soane et L01re) to the Deputies, mtmster, Later rose to be mtmster, '' guns cormng from anywhere, but appropriations from the Chambers of Parliaments " In I 874 reed hcense for free exportatiOn Adopted by 2 2 nattons I 8 8 5/ I 900 produced ten thousand cannon to I 914, 3 4 thousand one half of them sent out of the country always 10 the chamber of deputies, always a conservative, Schools, churches, orspitals fer the workm' man Sand piles fer the children

Opposite the Palace of the Schneiders Arose the monument to Herr Henn Chantiers de la Gironde, Bank of the Pans Unton, The franco-Japanese bank Franc;01s de Wendel, Robert Protot To fnends and enem1es of tomorrow " the most powerful umon IS doubtless that of the Coxrute des Forges," '' And God take your hvmg " said Hawkwood I 5 muhon Journal des Debats 3 0 muhon pa1d to Le Temps Eleven for the Echo de Paris Polloks on Schneider patents Our bank has bought us a lot of shares m Mltsu1 Who arm 50 dtvtSions, who keep up the Japanese army and they are destmed to have a large future •• fatre passer ces aifa1res avant ceux de la nat1on "

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xs the roof where the cat sat, Desolate xs the rron rail that he walked And the corner post whence he greeted the sunnse In hill path .. thkk, thgk " of the loom •• Thgk, thkk " and the sharp sound of a song under ohves When I lay m the mgle of Circe I heard a song of that kmd Fat panther lay by me Gxrls talked there of fuckmg, beasts talked there of eatmg, All heavy with sleep, fucked girls and fat leopards, Lxons loggy With Circe's tisane, Grrls leery With Circe's tisane '"' KaKa' ,I. 'f'a,pp.aK t:.OWKt:.P

kaka pharmak edoken The house of smooth stone that you can see from a dxstance AVKOL OpEUTt!poL, �OE AEOVTES

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When Hathor was bound xn that box afloat on the sea wave Came Mava sw1mmmg w1th hght hand hfted m overstroke sea blossom wreathed m her locks, , .. What are you box"> , " I am Hathor " Che ma1 da me non s1 parte 1l dlletto Fulv1da d1 folgore Came here With Glaucus unnoticed, nee IVI m harum Nee tn harum mgressus sum D1scuss th1s m bed said the lady Eune ka1 phllotetl ephata Kxrkh Euv� Kal cfn"Mr't]n, �4>aTa K'P"'I1

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Always W1th your mmd on the past Ad Orcum autem qu1squam� nondum nave mgra perven1t Been to hell m a boat yet� Sumus m fide Puellaeque canamus sub nocte there m the glade To Flora's mght, w1th hyacmthus, With the crocus (spnng sharp m the grass,) F1fty and forty together ERI MEN AI TE KUDONIAI Betuene Aprile and Merche With sap new m the bough With plum flowers above them with almond on the black bough With Jasmme and ohve leaf, To the beat of the measure From star up to the half-dark From half-dark to half-dark Unceasmg the measure Flank by flank on the headland w1th the Goddess' e} es to seaward By C1rceo, by Terracma, w1th the stone eyes wh1te toward the sea W1th one measure, unceasmg '' Fac deum' , " Est factus , Ver novum' ver novum' Thus made the sprmg, Can see but their eyes m the dark not the bough that he walked on 195

Beaten from flesh mto hght Hath swallowed the :fire-ball A traverso le foghe Hxs rod hath made god xn my belly Sxc loquxtur nupta Cantat stc nupta Dark shoulders have stirred the hghtnmg A gtrl's arms have nested the :fire, Not I but the handmaxd kmdled Cantat stc nupta I have eaten the flame

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de corps m permanent bodies .. Of the same trade," Sm1th, Adam, '' men .. never gather together , •• Without a consprracy agamst the general pubhe . Independent use of money (our OWN) toward holdmg OUR bank, own bank and m It the deposits, rece1ved, where received De banchis cambt tenendi Vemce 1 3 6 1 , '62. shelved for a couple of centur1es .. whether by pnvates or pubhc currency OF (0, F, of) the nat10n Toward producmg that wtde expanse of clean lawn Toward that deer park toward the playmg fields, congenes, swtmming pools, undsoweiter Sword-fish, seven marlm, world's record extracted m 2.4 hours Wd make the loan, sterlmg, eight hundred thousand If Peabody wd qmt busmess England I 8 5 8 IN THE NAME OF GOD THE MOST GLORIOUS MR D'ARCY IS permitted for 50 years to dig up the subsoil of Persia '6:z., report of committee Profit on arms sold to the government Morgan (Case 97) sold to the government the government's arms I mean the government owned 'em already at an extortionate profit Dollars I 6o thousand, one swat, to Mr Morgan for forcmg up gold 197

.. Takxng advantage of emergency " (that Is war) After Gettysburg, down 5 pomts m one day­ Bulls on gold and bears on the Umon .. Busmess prospered due to war's failures "

'' If a natzon Wtll master tts m01tey " Boutwell decided bonds shd be sold direct by the treasury Mr Morgan contnbut10ns to the Repubhcan Party, largely to the repubhcan party Beecher's church orgamzed by realty agents­ Belmont representmg the Rothschilds •• specie payment's resumptton .. ennched a small group of holders " stock subscnpt10n (railway constructiOn) seldom over 30 percent m '76 default 3 9 % of the total that Is 39 per cent of the bonds for railway constructiOn Said Mr Corey " there bemg no central xnstitutiOn as m London " Pujo mvestigation Said Mr Morgan " never sold short m my hfe " havmg learned that a high degree of hquidrty 1907 " cd not have been done Wtthout Mr Baker " we cdnt have stopped It (the pamc) As to the government's arms they were bought by one government office before they had been sold (as condemned) by another dttto (t e government office) passmg through a species of profit steve " A greek," satd Iomdes or some other Hellene, " honest after he has cleaned up .20 thousand " meanmg twenty thousand pund sterhng With our eyes on the new gothic residence, with our eyes on Palladto, wtth a desrre for se1gnreunal splendours 198

( AGALMA, haberdashery, clocks, ormoulu, brocatelh, tapestnes, unreadable volumes bound m tree-calf, half-morocco, morocco, tooled edges, green nbbons, flaps, farthmgales, fichus, cuties, shorties, pmkies et cetera Out of which thmgs seekmg an exit PLEASING TO CARTHEGENIANS HANNO that he ply beyond ptllars of Herakles 6o ships of armada to lay out Phoenectan Cities to each ship 5 0 oars, m all 30 thousand aboard them With water, wheat m provis.on Two days beyond Gtbel Tara hyed m the Wide plam Thumiatehyon, went westward to Sol01s an headland covered With trees Entha hieron Poseidonos, agamst the sun half a day IS seabord marshland htgh-murmurmg rushes In that place great elephant herds and beasts many other amongst them So latd we house Karikon, Gutta, Akra, Meh, Arambo These are the ctttes, then Lzxos Pours down from out of H1gh Ltbya The hxttae fnendly cowboys and herders Up country be aeth10p1ans h'\"mg wtth untamed beasts shut m by the Ltxtus mountam whereon are misshapen men swifter than horses Men of Lzxtae came With us to mterpret for I .2 days sathng southward, southward by desert one day satled agamst sun, there ts an harbout With an tsland I 5 mtles m ctrcumference, We butlt there, callmg 1t Cyrne behevmg tt oppostte Carthage as our saumg ttme was the same as from Cat thage to the Pulars I99

Past Xrestes, a great nver, a lagoon w1th three larg1sh 1slands a day onward great huls end an mlet, The1r folk wear the h1des of w1ld beasts and threw rocks to stone us, so prevented our landmg Next ts a nver w1de, full of water crocodlles, nver horses, Thence we turned back to Cyrne for u days coasted the shore Aethlops fled at our commg Our L1xtae cd not understand them uth day rose the woody mountam Wlth great soft smell from the trees all perfumes many-mmghng Two days, the Wide bayou or tnlet Lay flatland above It busy by mght With fires Fuled our tanks, saued 5 days along shore Came then West Horn, the Island that closes Its harbour And by day we saw only forest, by mght their fires W1th sound of p1pe agamst ptpe The sound ply over ply , cymbal beat agamst cymbal, The drum, wood, leather, beat, beat notse to make terror The dtvtners told us to clear Went from that fire fragrance, flames flowed mto sea, Fearmg and sWiftly, the land by mght decked w1th flame One pular of hght above others Scorched at the sky and stars By day thts stood an htgh mountam That they call the gods' carroch By flame for three days to South Horn, the bayou, the tsland of folk haxry and savage whom our Ltxtae satd were Gonllas We cd not take any man, but three of thetr women 200

The1r men clomb up the crags, Ramed stone, but we took three women who b1t, scratched, wd not follow the1r takers K.llled, flayed, brought back the1r pelts mto Carthage Went no further that voyage, as were at end of proV1s1ons Out of wruch thmgs seekmg an ex1t To the h1gh a1r, to the stratosphere, to the nnpenal calm, to the empyrean, to the batly of the four towers the NOUS, the meffable crystal Karxedomon Bastleos hung th1s W1th h1s map m the1r temple

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saxd the Boss, " e d1vertente " catchmg the pomt before the aesthetes had got

there , Havmg dramed off the muck by Vada From the marshes, by Cxrceo, where no one else wd have dramed 1t

Waxted .aooo years, ate gram from the marshes , Water supply for ten mxlho n, another one mxlhon rr vam " that xs rooms for people to hve xn

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DO wxth that money> " " But' but' stgnore, you do not ask a man what he wul do Wtth hxs money That ts a personal matter And the Boss saxd but what wxll you do'> You won't really need all that money because you are all for the confine " " Nm ct facctam sgannar per Mussohm " saxd the commandante della ptazza " Popolo " sa1d Ctct " 1gnorante ' " And the worst of 'em all ts my .. donna " (In the thrrd year of hxs age )

" Where the Pope goes 1s lack of money Because of the mass of clencs who bnng cheques for the banks to cash� And for these the banks must pay money And you must know how they pay, and when and on what days there a1e markets and m wh1ch ::.easons are the fa1rs, and when they need money m wh1ch where and what are the rates of exchange (Mess1re Uzzano m 144 2) To have shortage neither m time nor m place b..tt to have money there ready for sallmg of ships, wangles of merchants and for the due pay for soldiers both from commune or overlord, and you must work day and mght to keep up Wlth your letters Eleven hours the day, 3 2 cent1mes the hour .. And you stole It " sa1d the employer at Orbe After the boss had worn out h1s best only shoes Monday 14th, m the mornmg After sxx days m the trammg corps They sent hrm back to the front ( documento) Gesch1chte und Lebensb1lder Temperature of enormous 1mportance Erneuerung des Rehg10sen Lebens more especxally m mountam warfare In den Deutschen Befreiungsknegen, by W1lhelm Baur Thxs remarkable work was presented to the young Uhlan oflicer by her xmpenal rna Jesty Augusta Vxctona Wlth a tender and motherly dedxcat10n 203

Renewal of higher hfe m the struggle for German freedom, 1 9 hundred and 8 , m mountain warfare, ordme, contrordme e disordme " una pace qualunque " social content to the war The young Uhlan was never out of umform from h s e1ghth year tul the end of the war contrordme e disordme Trees, hedges of wh1te thorn, toward San Casc1ano were stiff frosted With sllver.to metres between the trenches •• was 1dentmed as the hosp1tal where Mussohm from photo m Cornere dt Domemca, and then bombed Feldmarschall Hmdenburg m the 1mpenal box Heard for the first trme Mozart and asked what the noise was all th1s god damned cultural nonsense But Fr1tz' father had kept the letter That he, Herr Nvon so Forth, shd back up rus, Hmdenburg's application for a seven dollar per year mcrease m pension­ fees due him for havmg participated m the Battle of Waffenschlag, m the seventies or whenever Una pace qualunque Over Udme wd have called that eagle a portent u Yes, Sir, we wtil file that " said the seventh under eat's dogkeeper when he rec'd the Hun ultunatum, The rest bemg nacherly on french vacatiOn 19 14 •• At any rate, he had the fleet out " remarked Wmston's mama .. Never " said Wmston to his cousm .. waste time rnak mg munitions Be a GUN, and shoot other's munitlOns 2 04

Don't waste time havmg Ideas " ( cousm deeply Impressed but d1d not achieve lastmg preemmence) m that world which M Crevel has depicted m the world of Esperanza, Pnmrose and Augusta, of fat fussy old women and of fat fussy old men •• Sure they want war," said Bill Yeats, •• They want all the young gals fer themselves " That llovely unconscious world slop over slop, and blue ribbons .. P1g and P.tffle " they called 1t m pnvate I o pence per copy to make, 6 pence on the stands and each year .ao thousand m profits Pays to control the Times, for Its effect on the market •• where there IS no censorship by the state there 1s a great deal of mampulat10n " and news sense:> Cos1mo First guaranteed 1t To pay 5 % on Its stock, Monte de1 Pasch1 and to lend at 5 and Yz Overplus of all pro:6.t, to rehef works and the admmiStratiOn on moderate pay that stood even after Napoleon Said C H •• To strangle the bankers ;, " And Woergl m our trme :> To the Count de Vergennes Pans, August t 78 5 Consumption tobacco, esteemed m francs I 5 to 3 0 mill1on pounds, let us say It may be 24 dehvered m ports of France @ 8 sous 9 muhon 6oo thousand at the rate 6 sous to manufacture 7 muhon and somethmg revenue to the Kmg 30 million to the consur.ner 72

expense of the tax m collection ts therefore say 2 5 mdhon presumptuous to assume Twenty mdhon rrenchmen, 1 9 nulhons accursed, Mrs Tnst1 In every matenal cxrcumstance Pubhc debt mcreasmg at about one mxlhon a yea1 You Will see by Gallatm's speeches Saddled by bank, led by a bridle National property bemg mcreased must furmsh adequate representation all rmported commodities are raxsed about 50 percent Vol IX 3 37, Lands rose m a vortex of paper, not here where the banks do not reach Mechamcs get I 50 a day But are worse off than With the old wages Independent use of our money toward holdmg our bank Mr Jefferson to Colonel Monroe 120 mdhon german fuses used by the alhes to kxll Germans Bnttsh gunstghts from Jena Schneider Creusot armed Turkey Copper from England thru Sweden Mr Hatfield Patented hts new shell m eight countnes ad mterrm 1 9 3 3

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ought, I thmk, to say m CIVIl terms You be damned ' (Palmerston, to Russell re/ Chas H Adams) • And how this people CAN m thts the fifth et cetera year of the war, leave that old etcetera up there on that monument' ' H G to E P 1 9 r 8 Lex sahca 1 lex Germamca, Antonmus said law rules at sea FIXED m the soul, nell' amma, of the Illustnous College They had been ten years proposmg such a Monte, That IS a species of bank-damn good bank, m Siena A mount, a bank, a fund a bottom an mstitutwn of credit a place to send cheques m and out of and yet not yet a banco di giro, and the Bauey sought VIews from the Senate • With paternal affection JUStice convemence of City what college had wtth such foresight wherefore S A (Your Highness) as m regtster Nov r 62 4 followmg details as third, a Yearly balance as 5th that any Cittzen shall have nght to deposit and to fruits therefrom resultant at five percent annual mterest and that borrowers pay a b1t over that for serv1ces ( de1 mm1stn) that IS for runmng expenses and book keepmg wh1ch shall be counted a half scudo per hundred per year (All of this IS Important) and 6thly that the Magistrate give h1s chief care that the specie 209

be lent to whomso can best use It USE IT (zd est, pzu uttlmente) to the good of their houses, to benefit of their busmess as of weavmg, the wool trade, the stlk trade And that (7thly) the overabundance every five years shall the Batley distribute to workers of the contrade (the wards) holdmg m reserve a prudent proportion as agamst unforeseen losses though there shd be NO such losses and 9th that the borrowers can pay up before the end of their term whenso 1t be to their mte1est No debt to run more than five years July 1 62 3 Loco Signi [a cross m the margm] + That pwfit on deposits should be used to cover all losses and the distnbuttons on the fifth year be made from remammg profits, after restoration of losses no ( benche) matter how small With sane small reserve agamst future tdem I, Livto Pasqutm, notary, ctttzen of Stena, most f-uthfully copted July 1 8th 1 623 Consules, Judices, and notary pubhc pro seremssimo attest Livto's superscnpt next date bemg November wave falls and the hand falls Thou shalt not always walk m the sun or see weed sprout over cormce Thy work m set space of years, not over an hundred That the Mount of Ptty (or Hock Shop) mumctpal of S1efJ.a has lent only on pledges that IS on stuff actu'llly hocked wd be we beheve useful and beneficent that there be place to lend hcitly MONEY to receive hcttly mone} at moderate and legitimate mterest 210

was sent months ago to YYour HH1ghness AA VV a memonal to erect a New Mountam could accept specie frorr1 Umversities (1d est congiegatiOns) and mdividuals and from Luoghi I e compames and persons both pubhc and pnvate \VHOMSOI:VER not 1 equmng that they have spec1al pnv1lege because of their state or conditiOns but to folk of ANY CONDITION that the same Mount cd/lend on good Mallevadona (that IS secunty) at the same rate plus a l.ttle over to cover current expenses of supervisors and employees & bemg sent to YY HHighnesses ( AA VV = YY HH) that you might understand It that It be brought to cons'deratxon With certam details discussed :first orally and then put mto wntmg (m what wd seem to have been r 62.2) Statmg that Siena had no mcome and Their Highnesses had provided credit from customs and from miscellaneous taxes and that the Grand Duke hadn't lost anythmg by It Plus a hst of Sienese assets ( coohsh) Plus a hen on • The Abundance ' And knowmg that all this IS but a httle Pledge the persons and goods of the laity And leave open door to other towns m the state who care to g�ve srmilar pledges And that whoso puts m money shall have lots m the Monte that yield 5 % mterest and that these shareholders shall receive their due frUit And that the Gd Duke make known at Siena to the same deputies of the Bailey but that It be separate from the Pawn Shop and have Its own magiStrates and employees and that YYour HHighnesses send approbat1on

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commandmg thetr wtll, we humbly wtth reverence the 29th day of Xember x 6zz servants of YYour HHtghnesses Nicolo de Antille Horatto G10nfighoh Sebasttano Cellest TThetr HHtghnesses gratified the ctty of thts demand to erect a New Monte for good pubhc and pnvate and to fac1.htate agreed to accommodate and to lend the fund agamst the Gd Duke's pubhc entnes to the sum of 2.oo,ooo scudt capttal for fruit at 5 % annual wh1ch 1s xo,ooo a year assigned on the office of grazmg on cautwn of satd secunty offered leavmg ground for other towns that wtsh to partiCipate With TThetr HHighnesses approbations as follows Mana Maddalena Tutnce Hor0 della Rena 3 0 Xembre x 6zz Needs a stamp refer to the Governor Fabbtzio bollo vedo Governatore the tllustnous Batley executed m toto & as per true rescnpt of TThetr HHtghnesses 2. Jan x6zz Cenzio Grcohru which date goes m the Stenese calendar 2I2

whereof December was the x th month and March was the New Year ACTUM SENIS, the Pansh of San JoanmJ m the Gd Ducal Palace present the Marquis Joanne Chnstophoro the 11lustuous Marquis Antony Mary of Malaspma and the most renowned Johnny somethmg or other de Bm1s Florentme Senator, Witness and I notary undersigned Ego LlVIUS Pasqumus of Manus (deceased) filius Apostohc Impenal and Pontifical notary pubhc Judge Ordmary, Cltlzen of Siena WHEREFORE let all sundry and whoever be satisfied that the sa1d MOUNT may be created so that the echo turned back m my mmd Pavia Saw Cities move m one :figure, VIcenza, as depleted San Zeno by Adige I Nicolaus Uhvis de CagnasCIS Citizen of Pisto;a Florentme notary pubhc countersignmg Senatus Populusque Senensis OB PECUNIAE SCARCITATEM borrowmg, nggmg exchanges, hc1t consumptiOn Impeded and It IS gettmg steadily WORSE others w1th specie abundant do not use 1t m busmess (to be young IS to suffer Be old, and be past that) do not use It m busmess and everyone remams here without work few come to buy m the market fewer stu! work the fields Monte non vacabu1s pubhco shares not to exp1re With death w1ll TTheir HH1ghnesses agamst pubhc entnes

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get that straight--capital two hundred thousand which wd correspond to I o,ooo mcome on the entnes of the office of grazmg With precautions ( cauteles) to guarantee their same Highnesses agamst any possible loss Whtch Idea dates at least to July 1 62 3 die dectma ottava and other copies r 624, r6zz which seems to have been approved ' hst October ' by Della Rena and M Magdalene the She Guard,,m, tutnce, more or less regent Don Ferdmandus Secundus Du"!: :M:agnus and his Serenest she tutnces w1th pubhc documentatiOn for pubhc and pnvate utihty foreseemg erection legitimate and JUSt, such a MOUNTAIN

Chigi, Soffici, Marcellus de' Illun, no, Marcellus Austm1, Caloanes Marescotti and Lord Mt Alban effected that the officers of this Mountam and m time to come all their successors shares that shall be called Loca Montts­ Have you a place on the an, Sir' out of sure knowledge and ex certe scientia et m plemtude of their powers mv10lable for observance, so to be comprehended I o thousand scudt de hbns septeno ? one scudo worth 7 hre m respect to zoo,ooo ( two hundred thousand) 2I4

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the serentSSimo D00 (pronounced Dommo) 'lnd his most serene aftercomers thmgs, persons et omma al•a JUVa whatever and the cash m the Pawn Shop (Mount of P1ty) e1usdem CIVItatis Senen there bemg m the third place z thousand 3 I o there to the credit of The Magm:ficent Magistrates and Lords Officers and 3 7 5 6 m the same Mount descnbed as to credit of cttizens 'lnd m common called money of Genova and Most Serene M Dux and serenest ( femmme) tutnces by the said Masters Deputies of the Bailey as to the best mode and obhgat10ns and caut1o.�.1s most ample dee-hberatton prayer, supplication as herewith and herefollowmg v1dehcet 1lhgati In the N arne of Ommpotent God and the Glonous Vxrgm our Advocate to the Gd Duke's honour and exaltatiOn the Most Serene, Tuscamssrmo Nostro S1gnore m the Lord's year 1 622 Saturday fourth day of March at� VIth (hour� after sunnse or whatever) called together assembled m general council of the People of the Cxty of Sxena magm:ficent Symbolic good of the Commune and fatherland dilettxssimo

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havmg chief place and desire that the Citizens get satisfactiOn (siano soddisfatti) contentment and be fully persuaded of what for the common good ts here bemg dealt With as we have already been for ten years proJeCtmg thts MONTE for gt future benefit to the City Worthy Will to the chosen end Ob pecuntae scarsitatem S P SENEN"19 ac pro eo amphssim Balta CollegiUm Civtces VIgilanttae totms CIVItatis Urban VIIIth of Siena, Ferd I mag duce d0 n° fehcttatem dommante et Ferd I Roman Emperor as elected u 5 I of the Protocols marked also X, I, I, F, and four arabic OB PECUNIAE SCARSITATEM because there was shortage o f com, m November because of taxes, exchanges, tax laymgs and usunes legitimate consumptiOn Impeded ten thousand on the office of pasturage to the end four fat oxen havmg thetr arses wtped and m general bemg tidied up to serve god under my wmdow With stoles of Impertal purple wtth tassels, and grooms before the carrocc10 on which carroch SIX hon heads to recetve the wax offenng Thus arrtve the gold eagles, the banners of the contrade, and boxes of candles ' Mn-YAWWH I I I • S21d the left front ox, suddenly, 'pnAWH I ' as they tted on his red front band,

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St George, two hokey-pokey stands and the untcorn • Ntcch10 l Ntcch-tO-ne ' I ' The kalhpygous Stenese females get that way from the saltte that IS from contmual pluggmg up h1ll One box marked • zoo LIRE ' • laudate puen ' ahas serve God With candles With the paho and I 7 banners and when stx men had hotsted up the btg candle a btt askew m the carroch and the fore ox had been finally arse-wtped they set off toward the Duomo, trme consumed I hour and I7 mmutes on the secunty mobtle and rmmob1le of mdtvtdual cltlzens m the ctty or wheresoever REE­ sponstbdity quocunque ahunde and thts obltgatto, obhgat10n shd/be d1v1ded by portton of tmmobtle goods thus deliberated m full meetmg m the name of the OMNIPOTENT, and of the glonous Vtrgm Ma (meamng Mana ) our Advocate year of salvatiOn I 622 on a Saturday as was the 4th day of March havmg already ten years ago started proposmg representatives of the whole people and below wntten notanes pubhc two hundred thousand (scudt) Ma1ster Augustmo Ch1sto equttes anomted of the order of Stephen (pope, holy) ducatorum :> no ducentorum a return of I o,ooo scud1 217

m the pansh of San GiovanUJ (Joanm� ) To be or not to be tied up With the Pawn Shop and his successors m the Great Duchy guarantee of the mcome from grazmg up to (Illegible) said to mean, no hbns septem, the sum of, summam, c;cut'>rum ten thousand On secunty mobile and urmob!le REEsponsibthty Out of Syracuse not havmg money aboai J to Athens at creditors' nsk cut the sails, dumped 01l at an Island but the S 0 man wouldnt swallow It Up to the quanuty of zoo,ooo on the whole people's credit for pubhc and pnvate utihty shares to be called Loca Mont1s wh1ch 1s to say Sites on the Mountam @ r oo scud1 to give 5 scud1 1 year as long as the MOUNT endure there first was the fru1t of nature there was the whole w11l of the people serene M Dux and His tutrices and lords deputies of the Batley, m name of Ommpotent God best mode etcetera, and the Glonous V1rgm convoked and gathered together r 6zz general council there were I 1 7 councillors m the hall of World Map, With bells and w1th votce of the Cryer (11 Band1tore) shares of Mount to yield five scud1 on each hundred per annum, and to be separate from the PITY

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wtth 1ts own magistrates, 1ts own mmtsters mus Baha esegulSCa 10 tutto Rescnpt of TThe1r HHtghnesses ACTUM SENIS m Paroch1a S Gwvanms blank leaves at end up to the mdex hoc dte dec1m' octavo, from the IncarnatiOn year x 62 3 Celso had a wheat scheme July to December, July to Novc"ll ber Grass nowhere out of place Pme cuts the sky mto three Thus BANK of the grassland was raised mto Setgnory stat1 fatt1 Stgnona, bemg present Pans Bolganm ct edtt of the Commune of S1ena u of the Bailey present went mto comm.ttee I cancellanus wrote to Hts Htghness A New Mount that shall recetve from all sorts of persons from Luoght pubhc and pnvate, pnvtleged and non-pnvtleged a base, a fondo, a deep, a sure and a certam the Ctty havmg • entrate , the customs and pubhc mcome M 1 5 0 to - scud1 200

to guarantee whtch wd/suffice 8 to x o thousand yearly on the gabelle and/or on the dogana Tuesday 3 Jan to Wed 6 Eptfany 1 622 a New Monte requested to bear @ 5 % annual x 62..1 January, asstgned on the Pascht Offo de Pascht March r 622 Donna Orsola of wherever removed from the book of the Stenese pubhc women ( motton approved by the Bailey ) March 24 agam appeared black money from Florence Monte de Ftrenze, vacabile, I 5.9 1 , 219

payable every two months had been 8 and r/ 2 gangste1 s admitted x 62 I to provide WORK for the populace register, rescnpt

0raZlO della Rena to be recogmzed as Illegitimate father of the bastards of Pietro de MediCI at xoo scudi per annum If you follow me, not as the legitimate father of Pietro's Illegitimate offspnng Orbem belhs, urbem gabelhs, Urbanus octavus Implev1t June 2 1 st Fnday or thereabouts 1 624 agreed to magtstrate's order that Mrs Margunta de Pecora Gallo be removed from the register of the town whores of Siena, on charge of thievery Fuday the first day of July Merchants spoke to the Bailey, actiOn on Monte Nuovo delayed Jan 1622 the Duke answered, and already spoke of the grass land x 6 July, Monte Nuovo, committee to arrange It New Mount approved by the1r Highnesses Xbre Monte Paschale, fatto Signona notice served to the Magistrates for Conservations and to the Magistr'lcy of the Grazmg May 1 626 m01 e stew about the black money (lead money) rescnpt that m the said place be not put for the Lord Count nor h1s successors any surety for bandits and cnmmals 220

but only for CIVIl debts, that 1t serve not as safe cache for Clt"Immals as d1d the Florentme Loan Office anno domm1 I 5 hundred an' whatever remam obhged to take salt from Grosseto at the same pnce as now ruhng x 676 ambassadors to F1renze when the Grand Duke sa1d he d1d not understand economics non mtendeva d1 quella matena bemg obhged to trust m his mm1sters x 679 for two years no one gaoled for debts under 14 hre, those m for 3 0 or under cd be released on order of the Buonuommi who shd/fix terms for arbitration Monte to lend 473 6 scud1 to the Tolomei foundation, and to take no mterest on this sum spent for the college I 68o to debtors 4% and one thtrd to cred1tors be pa1d 2/3 rds of I % under that, frozen assets D1xbre '22 make respons1ble all persons, and all goods of the laity that the Mount have Its fund secure that whoso puts his com m It shall hold his luoght bearmg 5 % fruitage per annum Signed Nicolo de Antille HoratiO Gmnfighoh Seb Cellesi LL AA (Their Highnesses) gratify th1s demand to set up a Monte to Pubhc Good and to pnvate to empower, facilitate, and be hcit were pleased to accommodate, and prestare the fund on the Grand Duke's pubhc mcome to the sum as of cap1tal 2oo,ooo for 5% frwtage that wd be ten thousand the year 221

whtch attam to the Office of Grasslands Pascht dt detta Cttta the satd sum Wtth cautele that no one shdjsuffcr Mana Maddalena, tutnce Hor0 della Rena (whose bastards) 1 62.2. thtrtteth of Xembre were not 1115 natural bastards that the Illustnous Batley shall execute thts order m all pomts (but only hts bastards offi.cxall y) fatthful rescnpt of theu Htghnesses 2. Jan I 62.2., Oraz10 Grcobm Sttle senese or the year begmnmg m March Enacted Stena, m the Pansh of S Gtonm, m palatto, Wtth Witnesses above ment10ned, apostolic, tmpenal, ctttzen of Stena Ftrenze 1 749 , x ooo scudt for drammg the low land 2.000 to fix Roman Road advance authonzed up to I z,ooo Pubhc debt at the end of the Med1c1 scudt I 4 mtlhon or So mtllton ltra pre-war

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thou shalt not, F1renze 1 766, and thou shalt not sequestrate for debt any farm Implement nor any yoke ox nor 1ny peas1nt while he works With the same Pietro Leopoldo Heavy gram crop unsold never had the Mount lacked for spec1e, cut rate to four and x/3rd c1 editors had always been pard, that trade mside the Grand Duchy be free of unped1ments shut down on gram Imports '8 3, four percent legal maximum mterest '8 5, three on church mvestments, motu propno Pietro Leopoldo Ferdmando EVVIVA ' ' declared agamst exportation thought gram was to eat Flags trumpets horns drums and a placard VIVA FERDINANDO and were sounded all canllons With bombs and With bonfires and was sung TE DEUM m thanks to the Highest for th1s so provident law and were hghts ht m the chapel of AleA.ander and the rmage of the Madonna unveiled and sung htan•es and then went to St Cathenne's chapel m S Domemco and by the rehquary of the Samt's head sang prayers and went to the Company Fonte G1Usta

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also smgmg the htantes and when was this thanksgivmg ended the cortege and the contrade With horns drums trumpets and banners went to the houses of the vanous ambulant vendors, then were the st1cks of the flags set m the stanchwns on the Palace of the Seignors and the gilded placard between them (thus ended the mornmg) meamng to start m the afternoon and the big bell and all bells of the tower m the piazza sounded from 8 a m until seven o'clock m the evemng Without mtermlSSion and next day was processiOn coaches and masks m great number and of every descnpt10n e di tutte le quahta to the sound always of drums and trumpets crymg VIVA FERDINANDO and m all parts of the p1azza were flames m great number and grenades burmng to sound of bombs and of mortaretti and the shootmg of guns and of pistols and m ch"lpel of the Piazza a great number of candles for the pubhcat10n of tlus so prov1dent law and at sundown were dances and the masks went; mto the1r houses and the captams of the ward compames, the contrade, took the1r banners to the Piazza Chapel where once more they sang htantes and cned agam Ferdmando EVVIVA Evviva Ferdmado u Terzo and from the contrade contmued the drummmg and blowmg of trumpets and huntmg horns, torch flares, grenades and they went to the Piazza del Duomo With a new hullabaloo gun shots mortaretti and pistols there were no streets not ablaze With the torches or With wood :fires and straw flares and the vendors had been warned not to show goods for fear of disorder and stayed all that day Withm doors

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or else outside Siena This was a law called DoviZia annonana to be freed from the Yoke of Licence From October 9th untu the 3 rd of November was unforeseen JUbilatiOn, four lmes of tablet m marble Frumentorum hcent1a coercita de annonana laxata Pauperum aeque diVItlUm bono conservit FERDINAND! 1 792 refused to take With him ob;ects of small bulk which h e held t o be the property of the natiOn Ferd III 179 6 that the sovereign be Il pm galantuomo del paese the citiZen pnest Fr LenZmi mounted the tribune to JOm the Citizen Abram and m admmng calm sat there with them the Citizen the Archbishop from 7,50 a bushel to 1 2 b y the z6th Apru and on June 2 8th came men of Arezzo past the Porta Romana and went mto the ghetto there to sack and burn hebrews part were burned With the hberty tree m the p1azza and for the rest of that day and mght 1799 anno dommi P1llage stopped by superior order 3 rd July was d1scovered treason m the cartndges given the troops that IS were full of semolma, not powder and cherry stone where shdjhave been ball and m others too httle powder Respectons les pretres, remarked Talleynnd r 8oo a good gram and wme year If you wd/get on well With the peasantry of the penmsula 225

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Premier Brumauc Vous voudrez Citoyen turn over all sums m yr / cash box to the commumty, fratermte, grectmgs Delort actmg for Dupont Lieutenant General �ou1s Kmg of Etruna, Pnmus, absolute, Without constitutiOn taxes so heavy that are thought to be more than paid by subJects of Bntam Gen Clarke to the Mimstro degh Esten Whereas the fruits of the Mount were the 2/ 3 rds of the one percent wherewith to pay all current e:ll.p . enses Madame rna soeur et cousme I have rece1ved Your MaJesty's letter of November twenty-fourth I suppose that m the actual cu cumstanccs She wtll be m a hurry to get to Spam or at least to leave a country where she can no longer �tay w1th the d1gmty be:fittmg her rank I have given orders that she be received m my kmgdom of Italy and m my French States w1th honours that are due her If your MaJesty should be m M1lan or Tunn before the x 8 th of december I should have the tdvantage of seemg her I am sendmg an officer my aide de camp, General Re1le who wul dehver th1s letter He will be charged at the same tune to take measures for the secunty of the country and to remove men who could trouble Its qUiet, smce I learn that Your MaJesty has already thought necessal f to Import troops from L1sbon My troops shd have by now entered that cap1tal md taken possessiOn of Portugal 226

Wherewith I pray God, Madam my Sister and cousm, he be pleased to have you m holy and worthy keepmg At Vemce, december nfth I 8 07 Your MaJesty's kmd brother and cousm NAPOLEON (his secretary rmxmg the pronouns You, She, she all to MaJesty) And those men who • With bestial enthusiasm ' took horse place were, says the much lesser Bandm1, paid by the prefect and beforehand prepared " Artists lugh rank, m fact sole social summ1ts which the tempest of pohtics can not reach," which remark appears to have been made by Napoleon And • Semiramis ' I 8 r4 departed from Lucca but her brother's law code remams monumento d1 civile sap1enza dned swamps, grew cotton, brought m mennos mortgage system Improved • Thank god such men be but few ' though they build up human courage And before h1ro had been Pieti o Leopoldo that Wished state debt brought to an end , that put the guilds under common tnbunal , that left names only as vestige of feudal cham , that hghtened mortmam that prmces and church be under tax as were others, that ended the gaohngs for debt, that said thou shalt not sell pubhc offices, that suppressed so many gabelle, that freed the prmters of surveillance and Wiped out the crime of lese maJesty, that abolished death as a po;..nalty and all tortures m pnsons which he held were for segregation , 227

that spht common property among tillers , roads, trees, and the wool trade, the suk trade, and a set pnce, lower, for salt , plus another full page of such actions Habsburg Lorrame His son the Third Ferdmando, cut taxes by half, Improved tulage m Val dr Chiana, L1vorno porto fnnco and thrs day came Madame LetiZia, the ex-emperor's mother, and on the I 3 th departed ' The foundatron, Srena, has been to keep bndle on usury ' Nrcolo Prccolomrnr, Provvedrtore

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Wtth usura hath no man a house of good stone each block cut smooth and well :fittmg that destgn mtght cover therr face, With usura hath no man a pamted paradtse on Ius church wall

harpes et luz or where vtrgm recetveth message and halo proJects from mctsion, wtth usura seeth no man Gonzaga hts hetrs and hts concubtnes no ptcture IS made to endure nor to hve 'Wlth but 1t ts made to sell and sell qutckly wtth usura, sm agamst nature, ts thy bread ever more of stale rags IS thy bread dry as paper, Wtth no mountam wheat, no strong flour With usura the hne grows thtck Wtth usura ts no clear demarcation and no man can find stte for hts dwellmg Stonecutter ts kept from hts stone weaver 1s kept from hts loom WITH USURA wool comes not to market sheep brmgeth no gam Wtth usura Usura xs a murram, usura blunteth the needle m the matd's hand and stoppeth the spmner's cunnmg Ptetro Lombardo came not by usura Duccto came not by usura

nor Pier delia Fnncesca , Zuan BJlm' not b; usura nor was ' La Calunma ' pamted Came not by usura Angel ico , came not Ambrogio Praedis, Came no church of cut stone s1gned Adamo me fectt Not by usura St Trophime Not by usura Samt Hilaire, Usura rusteth the chisel It rusteth the craft and the craftsman It gnaweth the thread m the loom None learneth to weave gold m her pattern , Azure hath a canker by usura , cramolSl IS unbr01dered Emerald findeth no Memlmg Usura slayeth the child m the womb It stayeth the young man's courtmg It hath brought palsey to bed, lyeth between the young bnde and her bndegroom CONTRA NATURAM They have brought whores for Eleusis Corpses are set to banquet at behest of usura

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XLVI tf you wrll say that thrs tale teaches a lesson, or that the Reverend Ehot has found a more natural language you who thmk you wul get through hell m a hurry That day there was cloud over Zoagh And for thtee days snow cloud over the sea Banked hke a hne of mountams Snow fell Or ram fell stohd, a wall of hnes So that you could see where the a1r stopped open and where the ram fell beside 1t Or the snow fell beside 1t Seventeen Years on this case, nmeteen years, mnety years on thrs case An' the fuzzy bloke sez (legs no pants ever wd :fit) ' IF that 1s so, any government worth a damn can pay dividends;� ' The maJor chewed 1t a b1t and sez ' Y-es, eh You mean mstead of collectm' taxes� ' • Instead of collectmg taxes ' That office' DidJa see the Decenmo'

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war, I don't thmk (or have It your own way ) about slavery"> Fxve mxlhon bemg killed off couple of Max's drawmgs, one of Balfour and a camel, an' one w'Ich fer oBviOus reasons haz never been pubhshed, ole Johnny Bull With a 'ankerchief It has never been published • He am't got an opmion ' Sez Orage about G B S sez Orage about Mr Xtertn Sez Orage about Mr Wells, • he wont HAVE an opmion trouble IZ that you mean xt, you never wxll be a JOUrnalist ' r 9 years on this case, suburban garden, • Greeks' ' sez John Marmaduke • a couple of art trxcks1 • What else"> never could set up a NATION ' ' • Wouldn't convert me, dwn't HAVE me converted, • Said •• I know I didn't ask. you, your father sent you here " to be tramed I know what I'd feel " send my son to England and have him come back a chnstxan 1 « what wd I feel"> " ' Suburban garden Said Abdul Baha •• I said • let us speak of rehg on ' " Camel dnver said I must mxlk my camel " So when he had milked his camel I saxd let us speak of rehgxon ' And the camel dnver said It xs txme to dnnk mxlk • Will you have some"> ' For pohteness I tned to J Oin him Have you ever tasted milk from a cameP I was unable to dnnk camel's mxlk I have 11ever been able So he drank all of the mxlk, and I saxd let us speak of rehgwn • I have drunk my mxlk I must dance ' said the dnver We d1d not speak of rehgwn " Thus Abdul Baha Third VICe-gerent of the Fxrst Abdul or whatever Baha, the Sage, the Umter, the founder of a rehgxon, m a garden at Uberton, Gubberton, or mebbe xt was some other damned suburb, but at any rate a suburban suburb amxd a flutter of teacups, said Mr Marmaduke .. Never wxll understand us They he I mean personally •

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•• They are mendac10us, but 1f the tnbe gets togethe1 " the tnbal wo1d will be kept, hence perpetual m1sunderstandh1g • • Englishman goes there, hves honest, word Is reliable, •• ten years, they beheve htm, then he signs terms for his government .. and, naturally, the treaty IS broken, Mohammedans, .. Nomads, Will never understand how we do this " 17 years on this case, and we not the first lot' Sa1d Paterson Hath benefit of mterest on all the moneys which It, the bank, creates out of nothmg Semt-pnvate mducement Said Mr RothSchild, hell knows which Roth-schild x 86x, '64 or there sometime, •• Very few people .. will understand this Those who do w1ll be occupied .. gettmg profits The general pubhc will probably not •• see It's agamst their xnterest " Seventeen years on the case, here Gents, 1sjare the confession •• Can we take this mto court';) .. Will any JUry convict on this evidence';) 1 694 anno dommi, on through the ages of usury On, nght on, mto hair-cloth, right on mto rotten bu1ldmg, Right on mto London houses, ground rents, foet1d brick work, Will any JUry conv1ct 'urn:> The Foundation o f RegiUs Professors Was made to spread hes and teach Wh1ggery, wul any JURY convict 'urn:> The Macmillan CommiSSion about two hundred and forty years

LATE

With great dtfliculty got back to Paterson's The bank makes It e-c nrhzl Demed by five thousand professors, wxll any Jury convxct 'urn';) This case, and With It the first part, draws to a conclusiOn,

of the first phase of this opus, Mr Marx, Karl, did not foresee th1s conclus10n, you have seen a good deal of the evxdence, not knowmg It evidence, IS monumentum look about you, look, If you can, at St Peter's Look at the Manchester slums, look at Brazihan coffee or Chdean mtrates Thts case IS the fitst case SI requteres monumentum ') This case IS not the last case or the whole case, we ask a REVISION, we ask for enlightenment m a c1se movmg concurrent, but this case IS the first case Bank creates It ex mhd Creates 1t to meet a need, Hie est hyper-usura MI Jefferson met 1t No man hath natural nght to exercxse profess10n of lender, save hxm who hath xt to lend Replevm, estopple, what wangle wh1ch wangle, VanBuren met 1t Before that was tea dumped mto harbour, before that was a great deal stdl m the school books, placed there NOT as evtdence Placed there to dxstract Idle mmds, Murder, starvation and bloodshed, seventy four red revolutiOns Ten emprres fell on th1s grease spot • I rule the Earth ' saxd Antomnus • but LAW rules the sea ' meanmg, we take xt, le"'!: Rhodx, the Law Marltlme of sea law}ers usura and sea xnsurance wherefrom no State was erected greater than Athens Wantmg TAXES to budd St Peter's, thought Luther beneath CIVIl notxce, I 527 Thereafter art thxckened Thereafter desxgn went to hell, Thereafter barocco, thereafter stone-cuttmg desxsted • Hxc nefas ' (narrator) • commune sepulchrum ' 19 years on thxs case/first case I have set down part o f The Evxdence Part/commune sepulchrum Aurum est commune sepulchrum Usura, commune sepulchrum

helandros ka1 heleptohs kat helarxe ffic Geryon est Hic hyperusura FIVE mxlhon youths Without JObs FOUR m1lhon adult xlhterates 1 5 m1lhon • vocational misfits ', that IS With small chance for JObs NINE mxlhon persons annual, InJUred m preventable mdustnal accidents One hundred thousand VIolent cnmes The Eumted States ov Amenca 3rd year of the reign of F Roosevelt, s1gned F Delano, hts uncle CASE for the prosecutiOn That Is one case, mmor case m the ser1es/Eumted States of Amenca, a d 1 9 3 5 England a worse case, France under a foetor of regents • Mr Cummmgs wants Farley's JOb ' headlme m current paper

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even dead, yet hath hxs mmd entrret Thxs sound came 1n the dark Fmt must thou go the road to hell And to the bower of Ceres' daughter Proserpme, Through overhangmg dark, to see Txresxas, Eyeless that was, a shade, that xs m hell So full of knowmg 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 sau after knowledge Knowmg less than drugged beasts phtheggometha

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thasson cf>Oe'Y'YWI-'eOa (}fw-uov The small lamps dnft m the bay And the sea's claw gathers them Neptunus dnnks after neap-txde Tamuz' Tamuzl t The red flame gomg seaward By thxs gate art thou measured From the long boats they have set hghts m the water, The sea's claw gathers them outward Scula's dogs snarl at the chff's base, The whxte teeth gnaw m under the crag, But xn the pale mght the small lamps float seaward Tv .llt�va. TU

Kat Moipa.t' "ASovw Kat MOIRA!' ADONIN

The sea xs streaked red wxth Adoms, The hghts fl1cker red m small ;ars 236

DIONA

Wheat shoots nse new by the altar, flower from the swtft seed Two span, two span to a woman, Beyond that she beheves not Nothmg 1s of any tmportance To that ts she bent, her mtentxon To that art thou called ever turnmg mtent10n, Whether by mght the owl-call, whether by sap m shoot, Never tdle, by no means by no wtles mtermtttent Moth ts called over mountain The bull runs blmd on the sword, naturans

To the cave art thou called, Odysseus, By Molu hast thou resptte for a httle,

By Molu art thou freed from the one bed that thou may'st return to another The stars are not m her countmg, To her they are but wandermg holes Begm thy plowmg When the Plexades go down to thexr rest, Begm thy plowtng 40 days are they under seabord, Thus do m fields by seabord And m valleys wtndmg down toward the sea When the cranes fly hxgh thmk of plowmg By thts gate art thou measured Thy day xs between a door and a door Two oxen are yoked for plowmg Or SIX m the htll field Whtte bulk under ohves, a score for drawmg down stone, Here the mules are gabled wtth slate on the htll road Thus was 1t m ttme And the small stars now fall from the ohve branch, Forked shadow falls dark on the terrace More black than the floatmg martm that has no care for your presence,

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His wmg-prmt IS black on the ro0f tdes And the prmt IS gone With his cry So hght IS thy weight on Tellus Thy notch no deeper xndented Thy weight less than the shadow Yet hast thou gnawed through the mountain, Scylla's white teeth less sharp Hast t.hou found a nest softer than cunnus Ot hast thou found better rest Hast'ou a deeper plantxng, doth thy death year Bring sWifter shoot ;l Hast thou entered more deeply the mountain' The hght has entered the cave lo' Io' The hght has gone down Into the cave, Splendour on splendour' By prong have I entered these hills That the grass grow from my body, That I hear the roots speakmg together, The air IS new on my leaf, The forked boughs shake With the wind Is Zephyrus more hght on the bough, Apehota more light on the almond branch'> By this door have I entered the hill Falleth, Adoms falleth Fruit cometh after The small hghts dnft out With the ttde, sea's claw has gathered them outward, Four banners to every flower The sea's claw draws the lamps outward Thmk thus of thy plowing When the seven stars go down to their rest Forty days for therr rest, by seabord And m valleys that wmd down toward the sea

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Ka� Moipa�' "Aoov�v

' KAI MOIRA! ADONIN

When the almond bough puts forth Its flame, When the new shoots are brought to the altar, Tv A�wva, Ka� Moipa� TU DIONA, KAI MOIRAI

Ka� Moipa�' "Aoov�v ' KAI MOIRA! ADONIN

that hath the gift of heahng, that hath the power over Wild beasts

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XLVIII 1f the money be rented Who shd pay rent on that money' Some fellow who has 1t on rent day, or some bloke who has not) D1ed Mahomet Vlth Yahid I:ddm Han • by profess10n ex-sultan ' 65 years of age m San Remo ( I926) begotten of Abdul MeJld At beatificatiOn So loud speakers were used Subsequent to the Turkish war Mr Kolsch1tzky received for h1s servtces as a spy five score sacks of coffee (de Banchns camb1 tenend1) thus m1t1atmg the coffee-house facts of V1enna s1xteen hundred, I thmk, and whenever , Von Unruh 1s rather good at lffiltatmg the sergeant who Jammed down the cadavers, there were cadavers and the p1t was not large enough to hold all the kadavers so the sergeant Jammed 'em down With his boots to get the place smooth for the Kaiser Herr Von Unruh IS rather good at mimmg that sergeant VIde Verdun, and what he wrote down , at Verdun Sa1a Mr Charles Francis Adams there was no good conversatiOn At no smgle entertamment m London d1d I find any good conversation They take Browmng for an Amertcan, he IS unenghsh m h1s opmions and carnage Was put m the cellarage Van Buren havmg wntten 1t down • deface and obhterate ' wrote J Adams • become fathers of the next generatiOn ' wrote Marx tuberculosxs Btsmarck

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blamed amertcan ctvtl war on the Jews , particularly on the Rothschud one of whom remarked to Disraeh that nations were fools to pay rent for thetr credtt

a£yovo�

DIGONOS , lost m the forest , but are then known as leopards

after three years m the forest, they are known as • twice-born '

I am sorry, Your Highness

Cawdor, Sept .2. 3

To have been so long m returnmg the pedigree of yr catrn puppy but when I wrote to the man you bought htm from

I received a reply from his wtfe (or daughter) saymg he had JUSt gone on a hohday and that he wd wnte me when he returned

I :find Dhu Achil ( stre) has been regtstered at the Kennel Club, but the dam ts unregistered Dhu Achu has won a fatr number of prizes at Scottish Shows and there are some other good dogs m the pedigree ( three senators , four bottles of whiskey) so the puppy seems qutte well bred

(and at)

For the sake of convemence I w1ll write particulars (four o'clock m the mornmg Mr Rhumby) on a separate sheet of paper (waz Sekkerta:ry) The httle dog Is domg (Ov State) very well at Mr McLocherty's and ts qutte happy They are very fond of him and he 1s a most affectiOnate dog Yours respectfully Gahleo , pronounced • Garry Yeo ' err' un' tmbecule , ed ha tmbecuhto (votce under my wmdow) u mondo No trustee of the Salem Museum, who had not doubled both Good Hope and The Horn Sea as tf nsen over the headland and there are twm seas m the cloud 12. % mterest m Btthyma ,

for home Romans mterest 6 No man thetgn satd Athelstan who has not made three voyages gomg hence off thts land mto other lands as a merchant • A httle more stock ' said the president over the telephone To the prmter • we sold all that what you pnnted us ' So the bond salesman went abroad They say, that 1s the Norse engmeer told me, that out past Hawau they spread threads from gun'ale to gun'ale m a certam fashion and plot a course of 3 ooo sea mtles lymg under the v.eb, watchmg the stars ' whtle she bought 2 prs of shoes 2 vetls, 2 parasols , an orch1d (artificial) for which I was presented wtth a new kmd of net gloves made hke fishnet, so the day was not wholly wasted The pnest here had una nuova messa ( dodtcesrmo anno E F ) bella festa, because there was a pnest here to say his first mass and all the mountams were full of fires, and we went around through the VIllage m gtro per tl paese 2 men and 2 horses and then the mustc and on the stdes chtldren carrymg torches and the carrozze With the pnests, and the one that had to say the new mass, and the carrozze were full of fine flowers and there were a lot of people I hked tt, all the houses were full of hghts and tree branches m the Windows covered With hand-made flowers and the next day they had mass and a processiOn Please may I go back there and have a new pair of Sunday shoes� • 242

Velvet, yellow, unwmged clambers, a ball, mto Its orchis and the starr there sttll broken the flat stones of the road, Mt Segur From Val Cabrere, were two mtles of roofs to San Bertrand so that a cat need not set foot m the road where now 1s an mn, and bare rafters, where they scratch SIX feet deep to reach pavement where now IS wheat field, and a milestone an altar to Termmus, With arms crossed back of the stone Where sun cuts hght agamst evenmg, where hght shaves grass mto emerald Savamc, hither Gaubertz, Said they wd not be under Pans Fallmg Mars m the air bough to bough, to the stone bench where was an ox m smith's shng hoisted for shoemg where was sprre-top a-level the grass yard Then the towers, high over chateauFell With stroke after stroke, Jet avenger bent, rolled, severed and then swallowed hmb after lrmb Hauled off the butt of that carcass, 20 feet up a tiee tlUnk, Here three ants have killed a great worm There Mars m the atr, fell, flew Employed, past tense, at the Lido, Venezia an old man With a basket of stones, that was, said the elderly lady, when the beach costumes were longer, and If the wmd was, the old man placed a stone

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the seven lakes, and by no man these verses Ram, empty rtver , a voyage, Ftre from frozen cloud, heavy ram m the twthght Under the cabm roof was one lantern The reeds are heavy, bent, and the bamboos speak as tf weepmg

Autumn moon, hills nse about lakes agamst sunset Evemng IS hke a curtam of cloud, a blurr above npples, and through 1t sharp long spikes of the cmnamon, a cold tune amtd reeds Behmd hill the monk's bell borne on the wmd Sail passed here m April , may return m October Boat fades m silver, slowly , Sun blaze alone on the nver Where wme flag catches the sunset Sparse chtmneys smoke m the cross hght Comes then snow scur on the rtver And a world 1s covered With Jade Small boat floats hke a lanthorn, The flowmg water clots as w1th cold And at San Ym they are a people of leisure Wtl.d geese swoop to the sand-bar, Clouds gather about the hole of the wmdow Broad water, geese lme out wtth the autumn Rooks clatter over the :fishermen's lanthorns,

A hght moves on the north sky hne, where the young boy& prod stones for shnmp In seventeen hundred came Tsmg to these hill lakes A hght moves on the south sky lme State by creatmg nches shd thereby get mto debt:> This IS mfamy, this IS Geryon This canal goes still to TenShi though the old kmg built 1t fo1 pleasure K E I K I U ]ITSU TAN

M E N M A N GETSU FUKU

RAN MAN K 0 TAN

K E I K E I KWA K A I

Sun up , work sundown, to rest dig well and drmk of the water dig :field, eat of the gram Impenal power Is) and to us what IS It:> The fourth, the dimensiOn of stillness And the power over wild beasts

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' said Mr Adams • took place m the mmds of the people m the fifteen years before Lexmgton ', That wd have been m Peter Leopold's time to h1s Lordsh1p the Count Orso and his descendants male legitimate and natural the admm1strat10n of c1vtl. and cnmmal JUSttce m the said place

debt when the MedlCl took the throne was 5 muhon and when they left was fourteen and 1ts mterest ate up all the best mcome the first folly was plantmg factones for wool spmnmg m England and Flanders then England kept her raw wool, so that damped down the exchangmg the arts gone to hell by I 7 5 o and Leopolda cut down the taxes found there was • Un ' abbondanza che affama-z,a ' says Zob1 Leopold cut down the debt mterest and put the Jesuits out and put end to the InqulSltlOn !782 and they brought m Mr Locke's essay on mterest but Genoa took our trade and L1vorno kept treaty With England to the loss of Ltvorno that 1s to say Livorno trade took a loss Te, adm1rabue, 0 VashmnnTTonn' L1vorno stuff went m Genovese bottoms 24 6

because Tuscany kept her word and a treaty Vot, popoh transatlanttct admirabihl sa1th Zobi, sixty years later • Pardon our bnef dig1ess10n ' sa1th Zob1 Amenca IS our daughter and VashiNNtonn had CIVIC v1rtues and Leopoldo meant to cut off two thirds of state debt, to abohsh It and then they sent him off to be Emperor m hell's bog, m the slough of VIenna, m the midden of Europe m the black hole of all mental vileness, m the pnvvy that stank Franz Josef, m Mettermch's merdery m the absolute rottenness, among embastard1zed cross-breeds, But Ferdmando staved off an Anschluss and Pans exploded • certam practices called rehg10us ' said Zobi ' lack of expenence m econon1IC affairs ' PIUs sixth, vrcar of fooliShness, no Jew God '\\ d have kept THAT m power So that about the trme of MARENGO the Fmt Consul wrote I left peace I find war I find enemies Inside yr frontier Your cannon sold to yr enemies 1 79 1, end of representative government x 8th Brumale, x oth of November 1 4th June, r 8oo MARENGO Mars meanmg, m that case, order That day was Right With the VICtor mass wetght agamst WI ong a d x 8oo mterest at 24 to the hundred and as they say • commerce langutshed ' x 8o x the tnumvirs wanted to go Leopoldme as was A thousand of the old guard at Portoferraw

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and two milhon a year, one � by whose carnage " farms, manufactunes hitherto as lf money was provmce's not of the contment John Adams as seen by John Adams, squabbles m congress to shut or not shut customs houses • Everythmg we want for war IS powder and shot ' sa1d Mr Zubly 2ndly arms and mumt10ns 3 rdly that we must have money We must keep up the notion that this paper 1s good for somethmg ( commerc1ab1h">) Mississ1pp1 scheme m France South Seas m England were wnt for our learmng A navy' Can we have one"> Without trade"> Can we mamtam war w1thout It"> Can we get mformat10n' Spamards too lazy to come here for goods To trade With England or fore1gners"> If so, who does the carrYing"> They to us, we to them"> I speak from prmciple, 1t has been said we associate zn terrorem Damn well nght, Mr Zubly Deane wd/ have traders prohibited rmportmg unnecessary and export of all hvestock save horses Gu these noblemen and 1gnoblemen words of Lord Mansfield and h1s admrrer ( governor Hutchmson) AMERICAN governments never were erected by parhament these regalza and JUnsd1ct10ns not g1ven by parhament a httle knowledge of the subJeCt Will do us no harm Chester a palatme county and had JUre regalza Great seal d1d not run mto Chester for remedy 3 kmghts of sh1re 1 burgesses of the c1ty estabhshed Chester m crown and realm exempt from authonty how qwckly granted representatiOn when asked It • In Durham Queen's wnt hath not run • 15 Charles II be represented by kmghts and by burgesses true our 01ly opponent has here more zeal than knowmg Nation was not pohte enough to have mtroduced any such phrase or Idea mto our charter not one farthmg ever was voted or gtven by Kmg or hiS Parhament Style royal'> as kmg over France'> Ireland'> Scotland or England? seals, leagues, com are prerogat1ve absolute seals, leagues, com are prerogat1ve absolute to the kmg Without parhament not restramed to any assent of the people homage, fealty are to the person can not be to body poht1c the kmg m1ght have commanded them to return but he did not In the Boston Gazette 17th Apdl Hostiht1es at Lexmgton commenced on the 1 9th of Apnl several other papers were wr1tten and sent to the pnntt.I 3 90

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and probably lost amid that confusiOn (note to the 1 8 1 9 edttlO!l of NOVANGLUS) PLAN OF GOVERNMENT ('76 or '75 from Phuadelphy) to R H Lee of Vtrgtma on sudden emergency legislative, executive and JUdicial Pnnter John Dunlap as hkewise to Mr Wythe cf VIrgmia some forms are better than others happmess of society IS thetr axm KUNG Zoroaster Socrates and Mahomet ' not to mention other authont1es really sacred ' fear renders men stupid and miserable honour IS a mere fragment of vtrtue, yet sacred foundation of every government m some prmcxple or passwn of the people ma che sz setrte dzcho Locke Milton Nedham Neville Burnet and Hoadly empire of lawo: not of men Be m mimature a portrait of the people at laige ( the representatxve body) of learnmg and expenence of the laws, exemplary morals great patience calmness attention not dependent on any body of men Judges, Executive secrecy and dispatch whence a great assembly can not execute, It IS too clumsy The colomes under such tnple government wd/ be Unconquerable by all the monarchs of Europe few of the human race have had opportumty hke this to make electton of government, more than of atr, sou or cltmate

When before have 3 mtlhon people had option of the total foim of their government> (Pat Henry, thus contmumg ) I put up Wlth the Declaratton for unantmtty's sale 391

It ts not pomted as I wd/ make It Colonel Nelson IS carrymg our resolution lest the enemy be before us m Pans confederacy must precede open alhance the arguments that delegate Bracton favours are weak shallow evastve wd/ to God you and Sam Adams were here m V1rgm1a 1f all yr/ features can not be kept here at least we wul keep some famtly hkeness wul you and S A now and then wrtte Prmted by John Taylor of Carohne m r 8 r 4 To John Penn '76 from J Adams no more agreeable employment than the study of the best kmd of government to determme form you must determme the end ( that 1s purpose) smgle assembly 1s hable to all the vtces folhes and fra1lt1es prerogatives, badges of slavery (s1mliarly to Jonathan Sergeant, he requirmg exphcit adv1ce as to takmg up powers of government) FIXed laws of their own makmg equitable mode of makmg the laws rmpart1al and of apt executiOn Freeholders of an estate of 3 L/ per annum or any estate to the value of 6o pounds Duty of legtslators and magistrates to chensh the mterest of hterature and prmciples of good humour (Constitution of Massachusetts) I was apprehensive m part1cular that • natural history ' and • good humour • wd/ be struck out, Wrote John 34 years later It IS s1gnrlicant wrote Chawles Fwancis that persons 39 2.

who have smce been erected have not etc been greatly hterate and no public man down untu x 8 5 o expressed doubts o f the tmmaculate nature of govvymmt by the maJOnty ' Either content With the U S constitUtions or too timid to speculate on constitUtions at large ' representattves of the people susceptible to Improvement (question"> ) read Thucydides Without horror"> words lost their sigmficance Mr Hume has collected massacres from D Siculus most pohshed years of Greece Ephesus three forty killed Cyremans 5 oo nobles Phaebidas bamshed 3 oo Boeot1ans m Pruhasta they ktlled 300 people at 1Egesta, 4o,ooo men women and chtldren killed for thetr money take away armtes, the nobles wul overturn every monarch m Europe and set up anstocractes No mtervtews wtth the gods by those on thts service Grosvenor Sq 178 7 but as arclutects consultmg Vttruvtus and Pallad10 the young gents of ltterature m Amenca to tlus kmd of enqwry doubted by Tacttus though he admtts the theory 1S a good one facutus laudart quam mvemre vel haud diUturna optrme mod1ce confusa, said Ctcero concors tamen e:ffiCitul CIVItas consensu 393

ubi JUStiti'l non est, nee JUS San Manno, the founder, a

potest cs-;c D 1l mat 1a n by btrth

and by trade a mason Whole h1story of Geneva the people have

given up all balances betraymg the1r own nghts and those of the magtstratcs mto the hands of a f�w promment fam1hes nobles to trade m a general way to carry on velvet, silk and cloth m'lnufactunes Venxce at :first democratical Anafeste's real ment 5 massacred, 5 bhnded and exiled 9 deposed, one killed m a foreign wat thus 20 of 5 0 doges, plus 5 abdxcattons before they thought of hmxtmg powers and another 200 ye?rs before plannmg a government an anstocracy

IS always more cunnxng than an assembly of the people collectxvely armies gxven to kmgs by the people to keep down the nobles

whereon nobles depend from the Cl own and the people are stdl under the1r doffilnation 2 thousand 5 hundred nobles m Vemce the stadtholder from father to son who after Lolme need wrxte of regal repubhcs :> recent mstance the Ukrame msurrect1on only tn Neuchatel apX,ELV KO.t. apX,ECT80.L

as xn ant1ent Rhodes, probably xn three branches JUra ordo aequttas leges stadtholder, avoyer, alcalde, cap1taneo? '> 1f Mons Turgot has made any discovery orders of officers, not of men m Amenca •

no d1stmct separation of legiSlative, executive and Judxc1al heretofore save m England

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phtlosophers say one, the few, the many popuhque optrmatium Regis as Lycurgus m SpartJ-.a, reges, semores et populus both greeks and Itahans archons, su:tfestes or consuls Athemans, Spartans, Thebans, Achaians usmg the people as Its mere dupe, as an undcrworket a purchaser m trust for some tyunt dexterous m pullmg down, not m mamtammg Turgot takes a defimt10n of the commonwealth for a defimtwn of hberty Where ambit10n IS every man's trade IS no ploughmg How shall the plow be kept m hands of owners not hirehngs :> Lycurgus to the end that no branch by swellmg to say that some parts of Plato and Sir Thos More are as Wild as the ravmgs of Bedlam (found Mtlton a dithermg tdiot, tho' s.11d this With more circumspectiOn) Lowered mterest Without annulling the debt m this transactiOn There 1s nothmg hke 1t m the ongmal Mr Pope has conformed It to the notiOns of Englishmen and Amencans m Tacitus and m Homer, 3 orders, m Greece as m Germany and mankmd dare not yet thmk upon CONSTITUTIONS • No man m Amenca then beheved me ' J A on his Davila, recollectmg Be bubbled out of thetr hberttes by a few large names, Hume, probably not havmg read them Whether the kmg of the Franks had a negattve on that assembly 395

' forwa1 d young man ' wrote the crmc on an unstgned J A (J A bemg then 5 3 and vtce president) Pharamond on the banks of the Sala here agam the french ;argon not one clear tdea what they mean by ' all authonty ' MISERIA scrvttus, ubt JUS V'l gum prumttve man was greganous, passtons, appetltes and predtlectlOns to be observed, commended esteemed I take 1t Mr Htllhouse ts smcere yet wd/ 1t not be more representattve to say that every colony had a governor, a counctl, senate and house none of whtch went by heredtty "> Emtssaru:s of B1 ztam ami France cd/ speak and hold caucuses CommiSSion to France '7 7 ' chased enemy half a mxlc ' (Lafayette headmg some Morgan's nfles) Henry Laurens • g1ve me !ewe to present you an mtroductory letter to Mons le Comtc de Broghe ' De Klab ' m my entertammg them wtth the best correspondence ' Lafayette ( ' m the noble cause we are fi.ghtmg for ' ) ' novelty of the scene, the mexpenence of the actors agamst paymg for thmgs we haven't ordered ' J Adams ' U S will doubtless grant some facthties to french pnvateers ' De Sartme m much larger sums than m the ordmary course of busmess ts needed 396

Congress havmg borrowed large sums of th1s paper money from Its possessors upon mterest and promised payment of that m Europe B Fr A Lee J A to Vergennes to know how you (Beaumarcha1s) clarm the Theresa as your proper vessel, because M Monthteu cla1ms her as his Demurrage of her, part of which we have pa1d and John Baptiste Lazarus agent of Caron de Beaumarcha1s representative of Rodenque Hortalez • consecrated my house to Dr Frankhn and associates was understood I shd/ expect no compensatiOn I beg leave you permit th1s to rernam Ray de Chaumont As to Bersolle, charges for repair of the Drake shd/ be Jones's supplies or slops to the Ranger shd/ be Jones's (Paul Jones's) as the Chatham belongs x/2 to the pubhc x/2 to the capturers charges shd/ be x /2 to moitle mumttons and repairs to the Ranger to us B F A Lee J A commissioners to Schwetghauser, banker Whatever vessels of war are sent to Amenca shd/ be plentifully supphed With manne woollen cloths blankets, mittens drfficult Without these m cold season the commissiOners, Frankhn A Lee J Adams to de Sartme 3 97

certam that a loan of money IS ver} much wanted aflly/ to Master Johnme and beheve me With gt/ esteem, Sir, B, Franklm Leghorn , tf Vtenna recetve an Amencan mm1ster also 2. acts of the 4th and I 5 th ascertammg yr / sahry and makmg provlSlon for yr/ subsistence m France Huntmgton, prestdent My Dear General The sktll of our enemy ( England) m forgmg false news annual custom to send out these cargoes of hes xt IS their way of passxng the wmter thus by ' appeasmg the troubles m Ireland ' by contracts Wtth German prmce� and especially Petersburg .z.o,ooo russ1ans u ships of the lme also Denmark 4 5 vessels ( hne ) (to L a Fayette and t o Genet) ' the art of poht1cal lymg m England better than ehewhe re ) 19th (next day) • no contracts Wlth German pnnces ' Mr Burke's b11l not yet bemg pubhc Mr Fox's severe observations on Govr/ Hutchmson the precise pomt of the solstice says Bohngbroke they xn smkmg scale do not easily cast off habxtual prejudxce • For the calhng and cancellation of 200 mxlhon dollars has m general been well rec'd' Elbr1dgr Gerry demands of the treasury generally answered by warrants @ $ 40 to I m specie Says Vergennes for '>trangers? 398 It

IS

•

The deprectatton of paper, a ta'C (T, A, X, ta'C)

the Amencans have latd on themselves tf french be obhged to submtt they wtll be vtcttm� of zeal or thetr rashness m supplymg the Amcrtcans wtth arms, clothes and mumt10ns ' De Ver genm.s • I thank yr/ Excellency for the confidence, do you mean that the Chevaher de Luzerne has al.eady reed/ such mstructrons or that they are on theu way to him� Let me quote you some pnces m Boston, forergners have profited by the dtfference between silver and buls of exchange that Is papet $2 5 to I of silver but no more than I z paper for One m b1ll of exchange also drfference m paper as between Boston and Phtlad,.Jpbia If any european merchant can show good cause foi except10n I doubt not we Will do JUStice to him '

Mazzei httle hope of success @ so low an mtere�t more offered by powers of Europe (to T Jefferson ) Keeps good company, devoted to you, Wythe and the gentlemen of Vtrgima, know not how you feel toward him ' Value differently from yourself, sxr, the umon whtch subsists between France and the U S and that France may deserve some preference over other powers who have no treaty With Ame11ca and who have not even acknowledged her mdependence ' de Vergennes Army dtsciphne greatly Improved Rush • If the french fleet shd/ consistently remam on that coast ' ( to de Vergennes) ' Not able on reflectiOn to see why 399

I shd;' not have published my powers

m

February '

(To Vergennes, July

17)

that I had mtent1on of gomg to Amsterdam no arguments but force respected m Europe to show U S the tmportance of an early attentJon to language for ascertammg the language Chmg Mmg Mr Bicker , that I shd/ consider what houses were connected Wtth England and also which had

•

other connections '

equally hkely to hmder the loan or defeat tt (meanmg, I found, the French mimstry) and which not of credit sufficient (particularly

N eufville)

provision for negot1atmg the cap1tal 2 % for undertakers to furmsh the capttal

2%

Brokerage x J2 % expenses stamped paper

r/2

amortization 2 x/4 for 3 mdhon gutlders I answered Mr Calkoen's quest10ns m wntmg conversatton by mterpreters betng heavy and he then read them to a soctety and thus began to be known that wd/ be burdensome for us to go on ten years wtth the war

but for the Enghsh equally so The takmg of Charleston has not strengthened them on the contrary when England borrows each year a sum equal to all her exports shd/ we be laughed at for wantmg to borrow up to x / uth (one twelfth)

of our exports?

400

We shd/ send regular m.mtsters • Lau.t:ens, dont Ia facheuse catastrophe me desole (captured by England) un parent me temoxgne de l'mchnat10n d'y placer vmgt mxlle flonns d'Hollande ' van der Capellen Ven der Kemp peut etre de grand Utlhte pour le Congres Kmg of Spam so good as to offer h1s surety for mterest and the capttal ' B Frankhn P S I find the sum he wd/ guarantee IS x 5 o,ooo dollars payable m 3 years No considerable sum here obtamable as Monsieur Necker xs makmg a loan ( meanmg placmg one) depuis qu'Il (Mr Laurens) est enferme a la Tour ( 1 e the towYer o f London) Amenca IS wxllmg to gtve a JUSt Interest ' Mortter and Meerkemaer act under Mssrs Staphorst I am sorry Mr Blomberg IS 1ll I thmk them (the two Tenkate) are capable but found them so hable to mfluence that I never cd/ close Mr Van Vloten xs at Utrecht ' H Bicker ' but have never obtamed any money ( u Nov 1780) nor the least hope of obtammg ' J A Whether Sxr Jo Yorke after 20 years resxdence IS xgnorant of the Dutch constxtut10n or xs merely msultmg Burgomasters of Amsterdam are one mtegral branch of the sovereignty and dxshkmg the french they famthanzed to call 4 01 •

[ngland the natural ally Kmg of r nghnd demands I U1111bmmt of the regents Ia persecutJOn contre M Y 1n Berci.cl •

et ses complJces '

Capellen de Pol de ne pas presser votre depart les affatres cnsc temps pourratt but des Anglats outre celu1 d'amuscr la repubhque d'Holland loss of Charleston Dutch have JOmed the neutrahty tout cred1t so1t d'un peuple so1t d'un parttcuher de deux choses l'op1mon de la bonne fo1 et de la poss1b1hte ou tl se trouve de fatre face Affarres (Xmas day, Amsterdam) still suspended but stockJobbmg goes on unmterruptedly at coffee houses on Sundays and hohdays when It cannot be held upon 'change • What they cd/ le1rn from Dutch htstory or french of the last .a 5 years ' J A 2.9 years later

I

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LXIX

whtch case a mmlSter here from Congress wd/ be useful 1f the neutrality, a m•n •ster to all m.utral courts might be useful Dec 3 1 Amsterdam 1780 ISt Jan Phlladelphxa 1 7 8 I yr/ commxssxon plempotentxary sent herewith Huntmgton, President for a secret address you may send under cover Madame la veuve de M Henry Schorn op de Agsterburg wal by de Hoogstraat deprec1at10n of money a TAX on the people paid m advance and therefore prevents the pubhc from bemg found m debt, true It 1s an unequal tax and causes perplexity but by no means dtsables the people from carrymg on the war Merchants, farmers, tradesmen and labourers gam they are the moneyed men, The capttahsts those who have money at mterest or those on fixed salarxes lose England has mcreased her debt 6o mxlhon ours xs not over 6 mxlhon who can hold out the longer> the depreciation has not tended to make the people submit to Bntam Amencan exports I 774, I 2 mllhon Englxsh debt 2 00 mllhon the Amencan debt only stx a bnttsh rmmster and stock-Jobber Vergennes ts fixedly resolved to commit htmself to nothmg not even hts treaty Wtth the U S now exxstmg

40 3

For the purpose of ch1c1mng the U S out of thetr hbertv thxs congress proposed at Vtenna With the two Emperors part of England's p1lavcr La Cour de Londres eludera autant et auss1 long qu'elle peut l'aveu d1rect ou md1rect de l'mdependem.c des Etats Ums Cornwalhs' fate has emboldened the Hollanders 4 Dec ' 8 1 Crops m U S finest known • u,ooo florms, J'ax honte d'etre Hollandats ' 6 Jan Capellen • 2 burgomasters, 2 schepens and a pensionary ' • I beheve thxs set rece1ve ample salanes to restst Amencan loan Br1t1sh m1msters, Dutch court, and the holders of Enghsh stocks ' ( to Fran1..lm Jan 2 5 ) that the provmce of Fnesland and M Berdsma be remembered that Mr Adams be admitted mm1stex from the congress of the U S N A resolved m the Provmce House ( Fnesland) to treat wxth the hanseat1c I found the old gentleman perfectly sound m hiS system of pohtxcs very poor opmxon of the new mmxstry and of the precedmg, msmcenty duphcxty Shelbourne stxll flatters the Kmg w1th 1deas of CONc1hat10n all to raiSe the pnce of stocks Amsterdam 26 Apnl 1£ the houses Ftseaux, Hodshon, Crommehns, van Staphorst 5 muhon by August Le corps des negoc1ants de cette vdle souha1tant JOtndre leurs acclamatiOns a CeUX de toute Ja natiOll J Nollet, Schtedam 404

' On m'a dit que ces Messieurs de Schiedam donnent ce repas de cent couverts et qu'u y aura beaucoup de personnes de Rotterdam ' Dumas It 1s true I may open a loan for 5 mdhon cash

IS

not

:fimte

m

m

thxs country

WE THEREFORE (May u th I 78 o ) accept the terms you propose 4 I/4th % for remed1um Willmck Staphorst FynJe the words piddlmg etc/ once cost me very dear If you wd/ open for 3 milhon at first Van Vloten and I have agreed 3 ooo bonds @ I ooo francs each Wulmck etc the mmister of the Emperor

IS

90 years of age and never appears

Oswald's credentials to treat With the • U S A (named speci:ficly) after th1s statuum quorum

My Dear General (Lafayette) mJ.lhon and a half, of the 3 muhon,

m

cash

Amsterdam Sept 19 Treaty ready by monday (J A.

to

Jefferson) 7 Oct '81

that France w1Il not be m necess1ty of purchasmg from Russia

after the war as she can then get some from Amer1ca) The Kmg's loans do not :fill

Pans, 7th November Vergennes certamly knows th1s or 1s not even an European statesman 40 5

avmd too !¥Cat dependence on anv one pov. er m Europ(,.

Nous sommes en attendant charmes de vo1r que les etats des 1utres pro\ mces et consequemment la repubhque ent1ere ont, a l e A.cmple des Etats de Fnse reconnu '

�1gned Lehd

1

get face ' alue.

but not speculators who h1d bought m the paper for notlung ov the 64 members ov the House ov reppyzentat1vs

2 9 were secunty holders lappm cream that IS, and takm tt off of the veterans an' Mr Madxson's move wuz DEE-feated

Maclay and ]1m Jackson stood out agamst dtrtmess ' smelled this stmk before Mad1son smelt 1t or before he told Tom about It

'MY

LXX

sttuatiOn almost the only one m the world where firmness and patience are useless ' J A vtce president and president of the senate 1 79 1 Will the french refuse to receive Mr Pmckney' tdea of leadmg Mr Adams Blount (senator) has been speculatmg With the Enghsh surrounded by proJecters and swmdlers, you w11l be, Gerry, Fnendshtp, Marshall a plam man and the frogs countenance only enemres of our constitutiOn set our seamen ashore at St Jago de Cuba till our shtps arm office of Secretary as nval of prestdent m atm to have qumtuple dtrectory Vervennes' fnends dtshke the facts latd to hrs charge Hamtlton no command, too much mtrxgue McHenry was secretary for war, m 9 8 We shd/ have fngates, no European peace can be lastmg expedtent to recommend war agamst France? (presupposmg they shall not have declared war agamst us (thus to Ptckenng ) ' Talleyrand affects utter tgnorance, Mr Gerry has commumcated, although knowmg that Talleyrand had much greater acquamtance wtth the satd X, Y, Z than has Mr Gerry ( Stgned Gerry) Hague xst July '9 8 peculators, cd/ they be aroused to drrve out the French Vans M/ exhausted all thmgs m enormous bnbes ' { ctphered) Talleyrand, leavmg however reserves for chtcanery, and Murray not yet removed from the Hague about • peace '

shortly ago wu l howhng fot w1r Wtth Bntam, a1mcd 1t clcct10m \1v appomtmcnt of Murray

peace, wat

has at le1 lucid mterval The Dtrectory had one for that moment No people m Europe cares anythmg about constttuttons, I 8 I 5 , whatsoever not one of 'em understands or 1s capable of understandmg any const1-damn-tut10n whatever God forbtd that our navy ever be as England's has been a scourge No mdtan's hatchet ratsed whtle I was prestdent 41 8 I

beheve

no

Nor has nature nor has art partitioned the sea mto emp1res or mto counties or kmght's fees on 1t be no farms ornate or unornate, no parks and no gardens F1sh to us, fishenes, Bntam still has nav1gat1on nghts on the MisSISSippi money or no money, she can never conquer this country • They wJ.l prmt anythmg that w11l sell • Our correspondence IS considered a cunosity by both part1es ' Adams to Jefferson I 8 r 5 but I do not thmk that It 1s tampered w1th Your letters seem to get here unopened Pnce found • gloomy prediCtions ' most unwelcome when Adams sa�d the french revolutiOn wd/ flop • G1ve more for Jefferson's letters than for all the rest m his ( Morgan's) volume ' speeches, restarted mqu1s1t10n m Spaxn black wh1te and p1ed Bnt1sh alhes fleet to protect Paxton, Birch, Temple Cred1t Ot1s wxth a great part of my argument he showed J.legahty, toward destroymg the charters Poor soldiers knew not what sent 'em North called 'em Sam Adams two regiments enormous w1gs that Hutchmson b10ught here like fleeces Beheve I had only set of • State Tnals ' m Amenca at State House w1th my mush.et and bayonet under Paddock even Jeswts popes sorbonmsts must have some conscience so had Sylla, so Manus, and If Hancock had vamty so had I also, If he rded me, I hun 4 large ships between Boston and London m ' 5 5 hiS uncle left him the busmess and this made no change m John Hancock thousand fam1hes m his dependence 419

The people elected htm and Sam Adams approved thetr m telhgence Joseph Hawley, Otts, Sam Adams, Hancock add Jay, wtthout knowmg the1r actxons you know not what made us our revolutwn magts decora poettcts fabuhs Otts wrote on greek prosody I published what he wrote on the latm Hts daughter told me he had burnt all his papers xn melanchoha may be from that swat on the pow From '74 dates neutrality I begged Otts to prmt 1t ( the greek prosody) He satd there were no greek types m America and tf there were, were no typesetters cd/ use 'em Otts restgned hts post (Advocate General) and was beaten up by coffee house bandtts m good lookxng clothes Otis agamst the wnts, J A versus JUdtctary, Defended Preston, defended the soldters, Ftshenes, peace, nommatton of Washmgton, kept peace wtth France I 8 oo Gold, stlver are but commodxtxes Ptty, says Tracy, they ever were stamped save by wetght They are commod1t1es as ts wheat or 1s lumber Keep out of Europe And thus before Charhe Mordecat • not free 'em to somethmg worse ' and quoted • constder what substance allow to, what labour extract from them (slaves) m my mterest whtch will work out to this If you work 'em up m SIX years on an average that most profits the planter ' With comment • and s surely very humane IF we est mate the coalheaver's expectatton two years on an average and the 5 o,ooo gtrls on the streets, at three years' of hfe 420

• for the better securmg of the plantations ' trade whereas divers acts 7th and 8th Wtlham Thud In preamble for Chapter the twenty second Don't It remmd you of alderman Bekford mstructmg h1s overseers (treat 'em rough) m the West lnd1es Adams to Wilham Tudor I8I8 2 4 years before Hobhouse • Ignorance of com, cred1t and c1rculatwn' ' ' KMtur &.Oa.v6.rwv, 7roA.vwvvfJ.E, 1ra.vKpa.res a.ld ZEii, cf>vuEws O.pxrrye, vbjJ.ov J.I.ETa. 1ravra. KV{3Ep11W11

THE PI SAN CAN T O S L X X I V-LX X X IV

HE

LXXIV

enormous tragedy of the dream m the peasant's bent shoulders Manes 1 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£yovos-, but the twice crucrfied where m history will you find 1t"> yet say th1s to the Possum a bang, not a whlMper, With a bang not With a whimper, To build the City of Dioce whose terraces are the colour of stars The suave eyes, quiet, not scornful, ram also IS of the process What you depart from IS not the way and ohve tree blown whtte m the wmd washed m the K1ang and Han what whiteness wtll you add to this whiteness, what candor"> " the great periplum bnngs m the stars to our shore " You who have passed the pillars and outward from Herakles when Lucifer fell tn N Carohna tf the suave atr gtve way to scirocco OY TI�, OY TI� '> Odysseus the name of my famtly the wmd also 1S of the process, sorella la luna Fear god and the stupidity of the populace, but a precise defimtwn transmitted thus Sigtsmundo thus Ducc10, thus Zuan Bellm, or trastevere With La Sposa Sponsa Crtsti m mosaic ttll our ttme I deification of emperors

T

42 5

but a snotty barbanan Ignorant of T'ang h1�tory need not deceive one nor Charhe Sung's money on lo'lrt from 1nommo that Is, we suppose Charhe had some and m Ind1a the rate down to I 8 per hundred but the local loan hce provided from Imported bankers so the total mterest sweated out of the Indian farmers rose m Churchillian grandeur as when, and plus when, he returned to the putnd gold standard as was about 1 9 2 5 Oh my England that free speech Without free rad10 speech IS as zero and but one pomt needed for Stahn you need not, 1 e need not take over the means of production, money to s1gmfy work done, ms1de a system and measured and wanted .. I have not done unnecessary manual labour " says the R C chaplam's field book (preparation before confessiOn ) squawky as larks over the death cells mihtansm progrcssmg westward 1m Westen mchts neues and the ConstitUtiOn m Jeopardy and that state of thmgs not very new e1ther .. of sapplure, for th1s stone giveth sleep " not words whereto to be faithful nor deeds that they be resolute only that btrd-hearted equity make trmber and lay hold of the earth and Rouse found they spoke of Ehas OY TI� m tellmg the tales of Odysseus

OY TI�

am noman, my name IS noman " but WanJina 1s, shall we say, Ouan Jm or the man w1th an educat10n •• I

and whose mouth was removed by h1s father bec.. ause he m ::�.de too many thmgs whereby cluttered the bushma•1's baggage v1de the exped1t10n of Frobc"l.ms' pup1ls '1bout 1 9 3 8 to Auss 'raha Ouan Jm spoke and thereby Cl t... atcd the named thereby makmg clutter the bane of men movmg and so h1s mouth was removed as you will find It removed m h1s pictures m pnnc1pio verbum paraclete or the verbum perfectum smcer1tas from the death cells m s1ght of Mt Ta15han @ P1sa as Fupyama at Gardone when the cat walked the top bar of the ra1hng and the water was st1ll on the \Vest s1de flowmg toward the VIlla Catullo where With sound ever movmg m drmmut1ve poluphloiSbo1os m the stlllness outlastmg all v. ars " La Donna " sa1d N1colett1 " la donna, la donna' " " Cosa deve contmuare :> " " Se casco " S'1ld B1anca Capello .. non casco xn g1nnocchwn " and w1th one day's readmg a man may have the key m his hands Lute of Gass1r Hooo Fasa came a han-coloured pup brmgmg fleas and a bxrd With whxte markmgs, a stepper under les stx potences Absouldre, que tous nous vue1l absoudre lay there Barabbas and two th1eves lay beside hxm mfant1le synthesis m Barabbas mmus Hemmgway, mmus Antheu, ebulhent

and by name Thos W1lson Mr K saxd nothmg foohsh, the whole month nothmg foohsh •• 1f we weren't dumb, we wouldn't be here " and the Lane gang Butterflies, mmt and Lesb1a's sparrows, the voiceless With bumm d1 um and banners, and the 1deogram of the guard roosts el tnste pens1er s1 volge ad Ussel A Ventadour va u cons1re, el tempo nvolge and at Lxmoges the young salesman bowed With such french pohteness .. No that 1s xmposs1ble " I have forgotten whtch c1ty But the caverns are less enchantmg to the unskuled explorer than the Urochs as shown on the postals, we wul see those old roads agam, question, possibly but nothmg appears much less hkely, Mme Pujol, and there was a smell of mmt under the tent flaps especially after the ram and a wh1te ox on the road toward Pisa as 1f facmg the tower, dark sheep m the dnll field and on wet days were clouds m the mountam as 1f under the guard roosts A hzard upheld me the w1ld b1rds wd not eat the whxte bread from Mt Ta1shan to the sunset From Carrara stone to the tower and this day the air was made open for Kuanon of all dehghts, Lmus, Cletus, Clement whose prayers, the great scarab xs bowed at the altar the green hght gleams m hxs shell 42 8

��

plowed tn the sacred :field and unwound the sdk worms early 10 tensile 10 the hght of hght 1s the vtrtu " sunt lumma " satd Engena Scotus 1 as of Shun on Mt Tatshan and 10 the hall of the forebears as from the begmmng of wonders the paraclete that was present m Yao, the prec1Slon m Shun the compasswnate 10 Yu the gutder of waters

4 grants at the 4 corners

three young men at the door and they drgged a dttch round about me lest the damp gnaw thru my bones to redeem Z10n Wtth JUSttce sd/ !sarah Not out on mterest satd Davtd rex the pnme s o b Ltght tenstle rmmaculata the sun's cord unspotted •• sunt lumxn a " satd the Omshman to Kmg Carolus,

•• oMNIA,

all thtngs that are are hghts " and they dug htm up out of sepulture sot dtsantly lookmg for Mamchaeans Les Albtgeots, a problem of htstory, and the fleet at Salamts made wrth money lent by the state to the shtpwnghts Tempus tacendt, tempus loquend1 Never msrde the country to raiSe the standard of hvmg but always abroad to mcrease the profits of usurers, dtxtt Lemn, and gun sales lead to more gun sales they do not clutter the market for gunnery there 1s no saturatton

Pisa, in the 2 3 rd 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 bibl'? wot are the books ov the bible? Name 'em, don't bullshit ME.

a man on whom the sun has gone down

~

the ewe, he said had such a pretty look in her eyes; and the nymph of the Hagoromo came to me,

as a corona of angels one day were clouds banked on

Taishan

or in glory of sunset and tovarish blessed without aim wept in the rainditch at evening Sunt lumina that the drama is wholly subjective stone knowing the form which the carver imparts it the stone knows the form sia Cythera, sia Ixotta, sia in Santa Maria dei Miracoli where Pietro Romano has fashioned the bases

OY TI:s a

man on whom the sun has gone down

nor shall diamond die in the avalanche be it torn from its setting :first must destroy himself ere others destroy him.

4 times was the city rebuilded, Hooo Fasa Gassir, Hooo Fasa

dell' !talia tradita

now in the mind indestructible, Gassir, Hoooo Fasa, With the four giants at the four corners and four gates mid-wall Hooo Fasa and a terrace the colour of stars pale as the dawn cloud, la luna

43 0

OY

Til

thm as Demeter's hair Hooo Fasa, and m a da'lce the renewal w1th two larks m cont1 appunto at sunset ch 'mtenensce a s1mstu Ia Torre seen thru a pa1r of breeches

Che sublta es lama cader between NEKUIA where are Alcmene and Tyro and the Charybd1s of aCtion to the sohtude of Mt Ta1shan femma, femma, that wd/ not be dragged mto parad1se by the hau, under the gray chff 111 penplum the sun draggmg her stars a man on whom the sun has gone down and the wmd came as hamadryas under the sun-beat Vat soh are never alone am1d the slaves learnmg slavery and the dull dr1ven back toward the JUngle are never alone 'H HON IIEPI HAlON as the hght sucks up vapor and the ttdes follow Lucma that had been a hard man m some ways a day as a thousand years as the leopard sat by h1s water d1sh, hast kuled the urochs and the b1son sd/ Buntmg domg SIX months after that war was over as pacifist tempted With ch1cken but dechned to approve of war •• Rewm1culum Metellorum '' pnvately pnnted to the shame of vanous cnt1cs nevertheless the state can lend money and the fleet that went out to SalamiS was buut by state loan to the bu1lders

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hence the attack on classical studtes and 10 thts war were Joe Gould, Buntmg and cummmgs as agamst th1ckness and fatness black that dxe 10 capttvtty mght green of hts pupxl, as grape flesh and sea wave undy10g lummous and translucent Est consummatum, Ite, surrounded by herds and by cohorts looked on Mt Taxshan but m Tangter I saw from dead straw tgmt1on From a snake bxte fire came to the straw from the faktr blowmg foul straw and an arm-long snake that b1t the tongue of the fakxr makmg small holes and from the blood of the holes came fire when he stuffed the straw mto hxs mouth dtrty straw that he took from the roadway first smoke and then the dull flame that wd/ have been m the t1me of Rats Uh when I rode out to Elson's near the vxlla of Perd1cans or four years before that elemental he thought the souls of the ch1ldren, 1f any, but had rented a shelter for travelers by foot from S1t1a, some of them nor ts 1t for nothmg that the chrysahds mate m the ru.r color dx luce green splendour and as the sun thru pale fingers Lordly men are to earth o'ergtven these the compamons Ford1e that wrote of gtants

and Wilham who dreamed of nobihty and Jrm the comedian smgmg « Blarrney castle me darhn' , you're nothmg now but a StOWne . and Plarr talkmg of mathematiCS or Jepson lover of Jade Maune who wrote historical novels and N ewbolt who looked twice bathed are to earth o'ergiven And this day the sun was clouded .. You Sit stiller " said Kokka •• xf whenever you move somethmg Jangles " and the old Marchesa remembered a reception 1n Petersburg and Kokka thought there might be some society (good) left m Spam, wd he care to frequent xt, my god, no' opmion m I 924 Sirdar, Bouxller and Les Lilas, or Dieudonne London, or Voxsm's, Uncle George stood hke a statesman 'PEl IIANTA :fills up every hollow the cake shops m the Nevsky, and Schoners not to mentxon der Greif at Bolsano la patronne gettmg older Mouqum's or Robert's 40 years after and La Marquise de Pierre had never before met an Am.ertcan •• and all their generation " no 1t IS not m that chorus Huddy gomg out and taller than anyone present ou sont les heurs of that year Mr James shieldmg himself With Mrs Hawkesby as 1t were a bowl sh1eldmg 1tself w1th a walkmg stick as he maneuvered his way toward the door Said Mr Adams, of the educatiOn, Teach� at Harvard� Teach? It cannot be done and this I had from the monument _

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Haec sunt fastae Under Taishan quatorze jUillet With the hill ablaze north of Taishan and Amber Rtves IS dead, the end of that c..hapter see Time for June 2 5th, Mr Graham htmself ummstakeably, on a horse, an ear and the beard's pomt showmg and the Farben works sttll mtact to the tune of Lihhullero and they have hitched the Adelpht mgge... s scahng the obstacle fence m the mtddle d1stanc..e and Mr Edwards superb green and brown m ward No 4 a pcent bemgmty, of the Baluba mask " doan you tell no one I made you that table methenamme eases the unne and the greatest 1s chanty to be found among those who have not observed regulations not of course that we 'ldvocate­ and yet petty larceny m a regtme based on grand larceny mtght rank as conformtty ment' altro wtth JUSttce shall be redeemed who putteth not out his money on mterest •• m meteyard m wetght or m measure " XIX Levittcus or Ftrst Thessalomans 4, x I 300 years culture at the mercy of a tack hammer thrown thru the roof Cloud over mountam, mountam over the cloud I surrender neither the emptre nor the temples plural nor the constltutlon nor yet the City of D10ce "

each one m his god's name as by T erracma rose from the sea Zephyr behmd her and from her manner of walkmg as had Ancluses t1ll the shrme be agam wh1te w1th ma• ble till the stone eyes look agam seaward The wmd 1s part of the process The ram 1s part of the process and the Pletades set 10 her m1rror Kuanon, thts stone brmgeth sleep, offered the w10e bowl grass nowhere out of place x86vta yla, M¥1JP,

by thy herbs menthe thyme and basihcum, from whom and to whom, wdl never be more now than at present bemg given a new green katydtd of a Sunday emerald, paler than emerald, mmus Its r1ght propeller this tent 1s to me and TI®ONOI eater of grape pulp m COitU mlum10at10 Manet pamted the bar at La Cig:lle or at Les Fohes 10 that year she rud her hrur 10 small nnglets, a la I 8 So It might have been, red, and the dress she wore Drecol or Lanvm a great goddess, Aeneas knew her forthwith by pa10t 1mmortal as no other age 1s rmmortal la France dumeuvteme Degas Manet Guys unforgettable a great brute sweat10g pamt satd Vanderpyl 40 years later of Vlammck for thts stone g1veth sleep starta senza pru scosse and eucal}' ptus that 1s for memory under the ohves, by cypress, mare T1rreno,

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Past Malmaison m field by the nver the tables Strdar, Armenonv1lle Or at Ventadour the keys of the chateau, ratn, Ussel, To the left of la bella Torre the tower of Ugohno m the tower to the left of the tower chewed his son's head and the only people who dtd anythmg of any mtercst were H , M and Frobemus der Geheimrat der 1m Baluba das Gewttter gemacht hat and Monsteur Jean wrote a play now and then or the Possum pouvrette et ancienne oncques lettre ne lus I don't know how humamty stands 1t Wtth a pamted paradtse at the end of It Without a pamted paradise at the end of 1t the dwarf mormng-glory twmes round the grass blade magna NUX ammae w1th Barabbas and z thieves bestde me, the wards hke a slave sh1p, Mr Edwards, Hudson, Henry comes mtserzae Com1tes Kernes, Green and Tom Wtlson God's messenger Whxteside and the guards op I of the was lower than that of the pr1�oners .. all them g d m f generals c s all of 'em fasc1Sts " .. fer a bag o' Dukes " " the thmgs I saye an ' dooo " ac ego m harum so lay men m C1rce's swme-sty, lVl 1n harum ego ac v1d1 cadaveres ammae .. c'mon small fry " sd/ the httle coon to the b1g black, of the slaver as seen between decks and all the presidents Washmgton Adams Monroe Polk Tyler 43 6

plus Carrol (of Carrolton) Crawford Robbmg the pubhc for pnvate mdrHdual's gam ®EA.I'EIN every bank of discount IS downnght ImqUity robbmg the pubhc for pnvate mdividual's gam nee bcnecomata Kirke, m1h t Kaxa cf> was 1t blacl,.er '> N�·� anunae '> xs there a blacker or was xt merely San Juan Wlth a belly ache wntmg ad posteros m short shall we look for a deeper or xs thxs the bottom'> Ugohno, the tower there on the tree lme phosphorus dysentery Berhn la vxe1lle de Cand1de (Hullo Corporal Casey) double X or burocracy'> Le Paradis n'est pas arttfictel but spezzato apparently xt eXIsts only m fragments unexpected excellent sausage, the smell of mmt, for example, Ladro the mght cat, at Nem1 waxted on the slope above the lake sunken m the pocket of hills awaxtmg declSlon from the old lunch cabm buxlt out over the shmgle, Zarathustra, now desuete to ]up1ter and to Hermes where now xs the castellaro no vestxge save m the axr m stone xs no rmpnnt and the grey walls of no era under the ohves saeculorum Athenae "'/Aa:u�, "'/AaVKW?!'t�,

ohvx that whxch gleams and then does not gleam as the leaf turns m the axr Boreas Apehota hbecc10 '' C'e d babao," saxd the young mother and the bathers hke small bxrds under hawk's eye 43 8

shrank back under the chff's edge at II Pozzetto al Tigulho •• wd " said the guard •• take everyone of them g d m f generals c s all of 'em fascists '' Oed1pus, nepotes Remi magnanxmi so Mr Bullington lay on his back hke an ape smgmg 0 sweet and lovely o Lady be good " m harum ac ego IVl Cnmmals have no mtellectual mterests;� and for three months chd not know the taste of his food m Chi heard Shun's music the sharp song With sun under 1ts radiance .\ty1 p'

one tanka ent1tled the shadow babao, or the hawk's wmg of no fortune and w1th a name to come Is downnght Imquity sa1d J Adams at 3 5 mstead of .2 1 6 5 doubtless conditiOned by what hts father heard m Byzantium doubtless conditioned by the spawn of the gt Meyer Anselm That old H had heard from the ass eared mihtanst m Byzantium .. Why stop;� " .. To begm agam when we are stronger " and young H/ the tip from the augean stables m Pans w1th Sie:ff m attendance, or not as the case may have been, thus cond1t10n.ng Meyer Anselm, a rrromance, yes, yes certamly but more fool you 1f you fall for 1t two centunes later from the1r seats the blond bastards, and cast 'em the y1dd 1s a stimulant, and the goyim are cattle m gt/ proportion and go to saleable slaughter Wlth the max1mum of docihty but If 43 9

a place be versalzen, ) Wxth JUStxce, by the law, from the law or It IS not m the contract Yu has nothmg pmned on Jehoveh sent and named Shun who to the autumnal heavens sha-o With the sun under Its melody to the compassionate heavens and there 1s also the XIXth Leviticus •• Thou shalt purchase the field wxth money " s1gned Jeremxah from the tower of Hananel unto Goah unto the horse gate $ 8 5 0 m Anatoth which 1s m BenJamm, $ 8 67 For the punty of the axr on Chocorua m a land of maple From the law, by the law, so bu1ld yr/ temple With JUStice m meteyard and me-.sure a black dehcate hand a whxte's hand hke a ham pass by, seen under the tent-flap on sxck call comman' comman', sxck call comman' and the two largest rackets are the alternatiOn of the value of money (of the umt of money METATHEMENON TE TON KRUMENON and usury @ 6o or lendmg that wh1ch 1s made out of nothu• g and the state can lend money as was done by Athens for the bulldmg of the Salamis fleet and 1f the packet gets lost m tr::ms1t ask Churchill's backers where 1t has got to the state need not borrow nor do the veterans need state guarantees 440

for pnvatc usunous lendmg m fact that IS the cat m the woodshed the state need not borrow as was shown by the mayor of Worgl who had a milk route and whose wife sold shirts and short breeches whose book-shelf was the Life of Henry Ford on and and also a copy of the DIVma Commed1a and of the Gedtchte of Heme a mce httle town m the T yrol m a wzde flat-lymg valley near Innsbruck and when a note of the small town of Worgl went over a counter m Innsbruck and the banker saw It go over all the slobs m Europe were ternfied '' no one " said the Frau Burgometster " m thls village who cd/ wnte a newspaper art1cle Knew zt was money but pretended 1t was not m order to be on the safe stde of the law " But m Russia they bungled and d1d not apparently grasp the 1dea of worl\.-ccrti:fiC'lte and started the N E P With disaster and the ImmolatlOn of men to machmery and the caml work and gt/ mortahty (which 1s as may be) and went m for dumpmg m order to trouble the waters m the usurers' hell-a-dtce all of which leads to the death-cells each m the name of 1ts god or longev1ty because as says Anstotle plulosophy lS not for young men their Katholou can not be suffictently denved from their hekasta thetr generahttes cannot be born from a sufficient phalanx of parttculars

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lord of h1s work and master of utte and answered the sun m hts great penplum leads m his fleet here sotto le nostre scogh under our craggy cl1ffs alevel the1r mast-tops S1gismundo by the Aureha to Genova by la vecchta sotto S Pantaleone Cunxzza qua al tnedro, e la scalza, and she who satd I sttll have the mould, and the ram fell all the nxght long at Ussel cefte mazwatseh venggg blew over Tolosa and m Mt Segur there 1s wmd space and ram space no more an alta1 to Mithras from 1l tnedro to the Castellaro

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the ohves grey over grey holdmg walls and thell' leaves turn under Sc1rocco la scalza Io son' la luna and they have broken my house the huntress tn broken plaster keeps watch no longer tempora, tempora and

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to mores

by Babyloman wall (memorat Cheever) out of his bas rehef, for that lme we recall hrm and who's dead, and who tsn't and Will the world ever take up Its course agam � very confidentially I ask you Wtll it� With D1eudonne dead and buried not even a wall, or Mouqum, or Vmsm or the cake shops m the Nevsky The Greif, yes, I suppose, and Schoners and perhaps the Taverna and Robert's but La Rupe no longer la Rupe, fimto Pre Catalan, Armenonville, Bulher extmct as Wtlly and there are I suppose no repnnts Teofile's bncabrac Cocteau's bncabrac seadnft snowm' 'em under every man to his JUnk-shop houses shd/have been bmlt m the 'So's (or '6o's) for a' that but Etleen's tnck sunhght softens London's November progress, b h yr/progress

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Ia pxgnzxa

to know the ground and the dew

but to keep 'em thn.e weeks Chung we doubt 1t and m government not to he down on It the word IS made perfect better gtft can no man make to a natton than the sense of Kung fu Tseu who was c'llled Chung N1 nor m htstonography nor m makmg anthologtes h yr/progress) (b each one m the name of hts god So that m the synagogue m Gxbraltar the sense of humour seemed to prevaxl durmg the prehmmary parts of the whatever but they respected at least the scrolls of the law from It, by It, redemption @ $ 8 5 0, @ $ 8 67 buy the :field With good money no unnghteousness m meteyard or m measure ( of pnces) and there 1s no need for the Xtns to pretend that they wrote Levitxcus chapter XIX m particular wxth JUStice Zton not by cheatmg the eye-teeth out of Don Fulano or of Ca10 e Ttzxo, Why not rebuxld 1t'> Crxmmals have no mtellectual Interests'> •• Hey, Snag, wot are the books ov th' bxbl' '' 454

'' name 'em, etc " Latm' I stud1ed latm " sa1d the mgger murderer to hts cage-mate (cdn't be sure whtch of the two was speakmg) " c'mon, sm.,ll fry," sd/the smaller black lad to the larger " Just playm' " ante mortem no scortum (that'� progress, me yr' ' ' se/call 1t progress/ ) the t1meless all' over the sea-cl1ffs " the pnde of all our D T C was ptstol-packm' Burnes " But to set here the roads of France, of Cahors, of Chalus, the mn low by the nver's edge, the poplars, to set here the roads of France Aubeterre, the quarned stone beyond P01t1ers-as seen agamst Sergeant Beaucher's elegant profile-­ and the tower on an almost triangular base as seen from Santa Marta's m Tarascon m

" m heaven have I to make) " but all the vatr and fa1r women and there 1s also the more northern (not nol dtc) tradtt10n from Memhng to Elskamp, extendmg to the shtp models m Danztg 1f they have not destroyed them Wtth Galla's rest, and 1s measured by the to whom 1t happens and to what, and 1£ to a work of art then to all who have seen and who w1ll not Washmgton, Adams, Tyler, Polk ( Wlth Crawford to brmg m a few Colomal fam1hes) the unruly 455

Tout d1t que pas ne dure la foltune In fact a small ram storm as It were 1. mouse, out of cloud's mountam r�.. c allmg the arnval of Joyce et fils at the haunt of Catullus " 1th ]Im's venerat10n of thunder and the Gard1sce m m1.gmficence Bt.t M1ss Norton's memory for the conver sation (or " go on ") of IdiOts W'1'> such as even the emment lnsh wnter has, If equalled at moments e smthettcly) certamly never surpassed Tout drt que pas ne dure la fortune and the Canal Grande has hsted at least until our time even xf Flo nan's has been refu1 btshed and shops m the P1azza 1..cpt up by artificial re�p1rat10n and for La Ftgha dx Jono they got out a speed edition ( entitled the Oedipus of the Laguncs) ()£ cancatures of D'Annunzxo l'ara sui rostro 2.0 years of the dream and the clouds near to Pisa are as good as any m Italy saxd the young Mozart If you wtll take a pme or followmg Ponce C Ponthe " ) t o the fountam m Flonda de Leon alia fuente flonda or Anchxses that laid hold of her flan1�s of axr arawmg her to hrm Cythera potens, K:uB11pa. 8ew&:

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no cloud, but the crystal body the tangent formed xn the hand's cup as hve wmd xn the beech grove as strong axr am1d cypress Kop'l], Ae.\uf 8ewa /et hb1dxn1s expers

the sphere movmg crystal, fluxd, none therem carrymg rancour Death, msamty/suxcxde degeneration that rs, JUSt gettmg stuprder as they get older 1roAAa 1ra.8etv,

nothmg matters but the quahty of the affectronm the end-that has carved the trace m the mmd dove sta memona and rf theft be the mam prmcrple m government (every bank of dxscount J Adams remarked) there w11l be larceny on a mmor pattern a few camrons, a stray packet of sugar and the effect of the mov1es the guard drd not thxnk that the Fuhrer had started rt Sergeant XL thought that excess populatron demanded slaughter at mtervals (as to the by whom ) Known as • The npper ' Lay m soft grass by the chff's edge wrth the sea 3 o metres below thrs and at hand's span, at cubxt's reach movmg, the crystallme, as mverse of water, clear over rock-bed ac ferae famxhares the gemmed field a destra wxth fawn, wrth panther, 4 57

corn flower, thi �tlc .md �word-flower to a hal £ met re gr:l�s growth,

by un the cliff's edge ... nor is this yet afa.•al

nor are here souls, nee pcrson.tc neither here in hy postasis, this l:md is of Dione and under her pl anet to Helia the lon g meadow with poplars to Kti71'pto; the mountain and shut garden of pear trees in flower here rested.

" both eyes, ( th e loss of) and to find someone who talked his own dialect. We

talked of every boy and girl in the valley but when he came back from leave he was sad because he had been able to feel all the ribs of his cow...•" this wind out of Carrara is soft as ttn terzo cielo

said the Prefctto

as the cat walked the porch rail at Gardone the lake flowing away from that side was still as is never in Sirmio with Fujiyama above it: " La donna ... " said the Prefect, in the silence

and the spring of their squeak-doll is broken and Bracken is out and the B.B.C. can lie

but at least a different bilge will come out of it at least for a little, as is its nature can continue, that is, to lie. As a lone ant from a broken ant-hill from the wreckage of Europe, ego scriptor.

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The ra1n has fallen, the wmd commg down out of tJ:.e mo ..mt'lm Lucca, Forti dl.l Marm1, Berchthold after the other one parts reassembled and w1tlun the crystal, went up sw1ft as ThetiS m colour rose-blue before sunset and carmme and amber, spmt1 quest1'> personae'> tang1b1hty by no means atasal but the crystal can be we1ghed m the hand formal and p'lssmg w1tlun the S}'l.ere ThetiS, Maya, 'A¢poStT1], no overstroke no dolphm faster m movmg nor the flymg azure of tl>e WI"lg'd fish under Zo:1glt when l'e comes out mto the a1r, hvmg arrow and the clouds o\ er the P1san meadov.-s are mdub1tably as fine as any to be seen from the pemnsula ot {3J.p{3a.pot have not destroyed them as they have S1g1srnundo's Temple D1vae Ixottae (and as to her effigy that was m P1sa'>) Ladder at swmg JUmp as for a descent from the cross 0 wh1te-chested martm, God damn 1t, as no one else will carry a message, say to La Cara amo Her bed-posts are of sapph1re for tlus stone g1veth sleep and m sp1te of ho1 barbaro1 pervenche and a sort of dwarf mormng-glory that knots m the grass, and a sort of buttercup 4 59

et sequelae Le Parad1s n'est pas artrfic1el States of mmd are mexp hcable to us

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gh onest1 L j'a1 eu p1t•e des autres probablement pas assez, 'lnd at moments that su1ted my own con­ vemence Le paradts n' le bozze « A Lume Spento "/ and by the column of Todero shd/1 shift to the other stde or wa1t 2.4 hours, free then, therem the dt:fference m the great ghetto, left st'lndmg w1th the new bndge of the Era where was the old eyesore Vendramm, Contranm, Fonda, Fondecho and Tulho Romano carved the suenes as the old custodc says so that sxnce then no one has been able to carve them fo1 the Jewel box, Santa Mana De1 M.uacoh, 460

Dex Greet, San Gwrgw, the place of skulls m the Carpaccw and m the font to the rxght as you enter are all the gold domes of San Marco Arachne, che mx porta fortuna, go spm on that tent rope Unkle George m Brassxtalo's abbazta vo1 che passate per questa v1a Does D'Annunz1o hve here:> sard the amencan lady, K H '' I do not know " saxd the aged Venezxana, " thxs lamp 1s for the vxrgm " '' Non combaattere " saxd Gxo, anna, meamng don't work so hard, Arachne che m1 porta fortuna, Athene, who wrongs thee:> Tl '' I'll tell you wot lZLa comm' Sochy-hsm 1s a-comm' 4 64

(a d 1 9 04, somewhat previous but effccttve for unmedtate scope thmgs have ends (or scopes) and b Shun's wxll 1nd K.tng Wan's wxll were as the two halves of a seal Yzs m the Mxddle Kmgdom Thetr am1s as one chrectto voluntatts, as lord over the heart the two sages umted

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and Lord Byron lamented that he (Kung) had not le ft 1t m metnc " halves of 'l seal," Voltaire choosmg almost as I had to fimsh hts " Louts Quatorze " and as to the dtstnbutxve functiOn 1 7 66 ante Chnstum tt xs recorded, and the state ca1t lend money as proved at Salamis and for notes on monopoly Thales, and credxt, S1ena , both for the trust and the mtstrust, " the earth belongs to the hvmg mterest on all 1t creates out of nothmg the buggermg bank has, pure xmqutty and to change the value of money, of the umt of money METATHEMENON we are not yet out of that chapter Le Par1d1s n'est pas arttficxel "

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Movxng enters the hall of the records the forms of men rose out of y£Ct Le Paradts n est pas artrfi.ctel nor does the martm agamst the tempest fly as m the calm axr •• hke an arrow, and under bad government hke an arrow " •• Mtssmg the hull's eye seeks the cause m htmself " " only the total smcenty, the prec1se defimt10n " and no sow's. ear from s tlk purse even m that case •

the douds over Pxsa, over the two teats of Tellus, yl.a.

" He won't " sa1d P1randello " fall for Freud, he ( Cocteau) 1s too good a poet " Well, Campan 1s gone smce that day w1th D1eudonne and With Vmsm and Gaudier's eye on the tellunc mass of Miss Lowell

•• the mmd of Plato

or that of Bacon " said Upward seekmg parallel for h1s own " Ha:f.f you gno bohdigal basshunts' Demokr1toos, Heragleitos " exclrumed Doktor Slommsky I 9 U So MISCIO sat m the dark lackmg the gasometer penny but then sa1d " Do you speak German' " to Asqmth, m I 9 I 4 " How Amley face work all the t1me back of that mask " But Mrs Tmkey never believed he wanted her cat for mouse-chasmg and not for onental cmsme .. Jap'nese dance all time overcoat " he remarked w1th perfect preCiSIOn " Just hke Jack Dempsey's m1tts " sang Mr Wilson so that you cd/ crack a flea on e1der wan ov her breasts sd/ the old Dubhn p1lot or the prec1se de:fimt10n bel seno ( m nmas escarsas, vide sopra) 4 69

mountams With the Arno, I suppose, flowmg between them so k1ssed the eat th after sleepmg on concrete

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copulatnx thy furrow

m hmbo no Vlctoncs, there, arc no " tctones­ that 1s hmbo, between decks of the sla.er x o } cars, 5 ye1rs ••

If he wd/ 01zly get nd of Ctano " gro1ned the adm1ral " people who are used to take orders " he sa1d when the fleet surrendered .. I would do 1t " (finish off Ciano) .. With a pmch of msect1C1de said Ch1lant1's r z year old daughter Sold the school-house at Ga1s, cut down the woods whose leaves served for beddmg cattle so there was a hch. of manure ''

for losmg the law of Chung N1, hence the vahsc set by the alpmo's statue m Brumk and the long lazy float of the banners and sumlar thmgs occurred m Dalmatia lackmg that treasure of honesty wluch IS the treasure of states and the dog-damn wop IS not, save by exception, honest m admm1strat10n any more than the bnton IS truthful Jactancy, vamty, peculation to the rum of 20 years' labour bells over Petano are softer than other bells remembermg Ahce :md Edmee till the dog Arlechmo makes his round blaili.. et holdmg the htlls' form m cloudy aurora

faces Apollo E la Mtranda

was the only one who changed personality changmg her roles

Whtch fact, It wd/ seem, escaped most, If not all, of the cnttcs " If you had a f n ' bram you'd be dangerous " remarks Romano Ramona to a by hrm desxgnated c s m the scabies ward the army vocabulary contams almost 4 8 words one verb and partiCiple one substantive v>..'YJ one adJeCtiVe and one phrase sexless that 1s used as a sort of pronoun from a watchman's club to a vamp or faxr lady And Margherxta's voice was clear as the notes of a clavtchord tendmg her rabbtt hutch, 0 Margaret of the seven gnefs who hast entered the lotus

" Trade, trade, trade " sang Lamer and they say the gold her grandmother earned under her slurts for Jeff Davis drowned her when she shpped from the landmg boat, doom of Atreus (0 Mercury god of thxeves, your caduceus now used by the amencan army as Witness thts packmg case)

IS

Born w1th Buddha's eye south of Mason and Dr�on as agamst Ils n'existent pas, leur ambience leu1 confert une extstence and m the case of

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Emanuel Swedcnborg " do not 'lrguc " tn the 3rd �pherc do not argue above "- h1ch, the lotus, v.h1te nenuphar Ku1non, the mytholog lt.S we who have passed ov as the young horse whmmes agamst the tubas m contendmg for certam values (Janequm per esemp10, and Orazw Vechu or Bronzmo) Greek rascality agamst Hagoromo Kumasaka vs/ vulganty no sooner out of Troas than the damn fools attacked Ismarus of the C1cones 4 b1rds on 3 wtres, one btrd on one 48 5

the unprxnt of the xntagho depends xn part on what Is pressed under It the mould must hold what IS poured mto It In discourse what matters IS to get It across e pot basta 5 of 'em now on 2 , on 3 , 7 on 4 thus what's h1s name and the change m wntmg the song books 5 on 3 aulentiSSima rosa fresca so they have left the upper church at AsslSl but the Goncourt shed certaxn hght on the french revolutiOn •• paak you d Jeep oveh there " the bacon-rmd banner ahas the \Vashmgton arms floats over agaxnst Ugohno m San Stefano de1 Cavahen God bless the ConstttutiOn and save 1t .. the value thereof " that Is the crux of the matter and god damn the perverters and xf Attlee attempts a Ramsey •• Leave the Duke, go for the gold '' •• m less than a geological epoch " and the Fleet that tnumphed at Salamis and W1lkes's fixed the pnce per loaf Athene cd I have done With more se"!{ appeal caes1a ocuh •• Pardon me, -y>..a-6� " ( .. Leave 1t, I'm not a fool ") mah?

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The pnce IS three altars, mu!ta " " paak you djeep oveh there '' 2 on 2 what's the name of that bastard' D' Arezzo, Gui d'Arezzo notat1on 3 on 3 chncch1erona the yellow brd 3 months m bottle to rest (auctor) by the two breasts of Teilus Bless my buttons, a staff car/ s1 come avesse l'mferno m gran d1sp1tto Capanaeus With 6 on 3 , swallow-tails as from the breasts of Helen, a cup of wh1te gold 2 cups for three altars Tellus yEa feconda " each one m the name of 1ts god " mmt, thyme and bas1hcum, the young horse whmmes agamst the sound of the bumm band, to that • gadgett,' and to the production and the slaughter (on both s1des) m memonam " Hell ' don't they get a b1eak for the whistle' " and If the court be not the centre of learmng 111 short the snot of peJorocracy tmsel gilded of fat fussy old woman and fat snorty old stall1ons " half dead at the top " My dear Wilham B Y your Y2 was too moderate " pragmatic pig " (If goyrm) will serve for 2 thirds of It to say nothmg of the mvestment of funds 111 the Yu-en-mi and similar ventures small arms 'n' chem1cals whereas Mr Keith comes nearest to Donatello's 0 Lynx, my love, my lovely lynx,

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Keep watch over my wme pot, Guard close my mountam st1ll Till the god come mto this whiskey Mamtou, god of lynxes, remember our corn Khardas, god of camels what the deuce are you domg here;� I beg your pardon •• Prepare to go on a JOUrney " uI , " Prepare to go on a JOUrney " or to count sheep m Phoemctan, How IS 1t far If you thmk of xt) So they said to Lidya no, your body-guard IS not the town executwner the executioner 1s not here for the moment the fellow who rxdes bes1de your coachman 1S JUSt a cossak who executes Whtch bemg the case, her holdmg dear H J (Mr James, Henry) hterally by the button-hole m those so consecrated surroundmgs (a garden m the Temple, no less) and saymg, for once, the nght thmg namely " Cher maitre " to his checqued waistcoat, the Pnncess Banannsky, as the :fish-taus said to Odysseus, evl Tpot.,, The moon has a swollen cheek and when the mornmg sun ht up the shelves and battalions of the West, cloud over cloud Old Ez folded his blankets Ne1ther Eos nor Hesperus has suffered wrong at my hands 0 Lynx, wake Stlenus and Casey

shake the castagnettes of the bassar1ds, 488

the mountam forest IS full of hght the tree-comb red-gtlded Who sleeps m the :field of 1ynxes m the orchard of Maehds' (wtth great blue marble eyes " because he hkes to," the cossak) Salazar, Scott, Dawley on sick call Polk, Tyler, half the prestdents and Calhoun " Retaltate on the capttahsts " sd/ Calhoun " of the North " ah yes, when the tdeas were clearer debts to people m N Y ctty and on the hill of the Maehds m the close garden of Venus asleep amtd serned 1ynxes set wreathes on Pnapus •la.Kxo�, lo' Kt'O'fJpa., lo l havmg root m the equtttes lo1 and you can make 5 ooo dollars a year all you have to do ts to ma�e one tnp up country then come back to Shanghat and send m an annual report as to the number of converts Sweetland on sick call 'e>..e'fJuov Kyne eletson each under hts :fig tree or wtth the smell of fig leaves burnmg so shd/ be fire m wmter wtth fig wood, With cedar, and pme burrs 0 Lynx keep watch on my fire

So Astafieva had conserved the tradtt!On From Byzance and before then Mamtou remember thts fire 0 lynx, keep the phylloxera from my grape vtnes 48 9

�leu Cythera, here are lynxes Wtll the scrub-oak burst mto flower'> There IS a rose vme m this underbrush Red;� wh1te;� No, but a colour between them When the pomegranate ts open and the hght falls half thru 1t Lynx, beware of these vme-thorns 0 Lynx, y..\a.vKw'll"t� cornmg up from the ohve yards, 490

Kuthera, here are Lynxes and the chckmg of crotales There 1s a stir of dust from old leaves Will you trade roses for acorns Will lynxes eat thorn leaves' What have you m that wme J ar� Lxwp , for lynxes ' Maehd and bassand among lynxes, how many' There are more under the oak trees, We are he1e waitmg the sun-nse and the next sunnse for three mghts amid lynxes For three mghts of the oak-wood and the vmes are thick m the1r branches no vme lackmg flower, no lynx lackmg a flower rope no Maehd mmus a wme pr this forest IS named Mel agrana

0 lynx, keep the edge on my c1der Keep 1t clear Without cloud We have lam here amtd kahcanthus and sword-flower The hehads are caught m w1ld rose vme The smell of pme mmgles w1th rose leaves 0 lynx, be many of spotted fur and sharp ears 0 lynx, have your eyes gone yellow, w1th spotted fur and sharp ears' Therem 1s the dance of the bassands Therem are centaurs And now Pnapus w1th Faunus The Graces have brought Acf>po8lrqv Her cel1 1s drawn by ten leopards

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0 lynx, guard my vmeyard As the grape swells under vme leaf to our moun tam there ts a red glow m the c1rpet of pme sptkes •IL\to� 1s come

0 lynx, guard my vmeyard As the grape swells under vme leaf Thts Goddess was born of sea-foam She 1s hghter than atr under Hesperus Setva e�, KvfJ'YJpa

ternble m resiStance Kop'YJ Ka.1 �'YJ.>..ta. Ka.1 Maia.

trme as praelud10 K�1rpt� 'Acf>po8tT'YJ

a petal hghter than sea-foam K�6'YJpa.

aram nemus vult 0 puma, sacred to Hermes, Ctmbxca servant of Hehos

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committed no federal cnme, Jes a sla1ght misdemeanor " Thus Mr A Little or perhaps Mr Nelson, or Washmgton reflectmg on the vaganes of our nsmg fhp.Ls

Amo ergo sum, and m JUSt that proport1on And Margot's death Will be counted the end of an era and dear Walter was sittmg amid the spoils of Fmlandia a good deal of polar white but the gas cut off Debussy preferred his playmg that also was an era (Mr W Rummel) an era of croissants then an era of pams au latt and the eucalyptus bobble IS m1ssmg " Come pan, nuio ' " that was an era also, and Spamsh bread was made out of gram m that era senesco sed amo Madn', Sevilla, Cordoba, there was gram equally m the bread of that era senesco sed amo Gervats must have put mtlk m h1s cheese (and the mortal fattgue of actwn postponed) and Las Menuias hung m a room by themselves and Philip horsed and not horsed and the dwarfs and Don Juan of Austna Breda, the Vtrgm, Los Boracchos are they all now m the Prado) y Las Htlanderas? 49 3

Do they sell such old brass still m .. Las Amencas " wtth the wmd commg hot off the marsh land or wtth death-chtll from the mountams) and w1th Symons remembermg Verlame at the Tabarm or Henmque, Flaubert Nothmg but death, satd Turgenev (Ttrestas) lS Irreparable d:yA.ao� aA.aov 7T6pV7J IIepae¢6vet.a.

St1ll hath Ius mmd entire But to lose fatth m a posstble collaborat10n To raiSe up the tvory wall or to stand as the coral nses, as the pilot-fish nears 1t ( wtll they shoot X y) or the whale-mouth for wantmg a northern league for demandmg a Scandmavtan Norse coalmon mexorable thts ts from heaven the warp and the woof W1th a sly wet as ocean flowmg wtth hqUid slate Petam defended Verdun whtle Blum was defendmg a btdet the red and whtte stnpes cut clearer agamst the slate than agamst any other dtstance the blue field melts Wtth the cloud-flow To commumcate and then stop, that ts the law of dtscourse To go far and come to an end Simplex mundttus, as the hrur of Ctrce perhaps wtthout the mundttns as the difference between the tttle p age m old Legge and some of the elegant fancy work --

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I wonder what Tsu Ts.ze's calhgr aphv looked hke they say she could draw down b1rds from the tt ecs, that mdeed w as tmpenal , but made hell m the palace as some say a dark forest the warp and the v. oof that 1s of hea"cn " and I be damned " said Confuc1us ThiS affair of a southern Nancy and as for the vaganes of our friend Mr Hartmann, Sadaklchi a few more of htm, were that conceivable, would have ennched the hfe of Manhattan or any other town or metropohs the texts of hts early stuff are probably lost wtth the loss of fly-by-mght penodtcals and our knowledge of Hovey, Sttckney, Lonng, the lost legion or as Santayana has satd They JUSt died They dted because they JUSt couldn't stand tt and Carman " looked hke a Wtthered berry " 20 years after Whttman hked oysters at least I thmk tt was oysters and the clouds have made a pseudo-Vesuv1us this stde of Tatshan Nenm, Nenm, who Will have the succession > To thts whiteness, Tseng satd •• What shall add to this whtteness"> " and as to poor old Bemto one had a safety-pm one had a btt of strmg, one had a button all of them so far beneath htm 49 5

Cunous, 1s 1t not, that Mr Ehot has not g1ven more time to Mr Beddoes (T L ) prmce of mortiCians where none can speak his language centunes hoarded to pull up a mass of algae ( and pearls) or the odour of eucalyptus or sea wrack cat-faced, c10ce d1 Malta, :fi.gura del sol to each ttee Its own mouth and savour .. Hot hole hep cat " or words of Similar volume to be recogmzed by the god-damned or man-damned tramee Prowhng rught-puss leave my ha1d squares alone they are m no case cat food 1f you h'ld sense you wd/ come here at meal time when meat 1s superabundant you can neither eat manuscnpt nor Confuctus nor even the hebrew scnptures get out of that bacon box contract W, I I oh oh 9 oh now used as a wardrobe ex 5 3 pounds gross weight the cat-faced eucalyptus mb IS where you cannot get at 1t Tune kitten on the keys radio steam Calhope followmg the Battle Hymn of the Repubhc where the honey-wagon cease from stmkmg and the nose be at peace .. nu-hme eyes hev " well yes they have seen a good deal of It

there IS a good deal to be seen fairly tough and unblastable and the hymn contrast to the god-damned croomng well m put me down for tempons act1 OY Til /J.xpovor;

now there are no more days OV TL Whtther go all the vatr and the ctsclatons and the wave pattern runs m the stone on the high parapet (Excideuil) Mt Segur and the City of Dwce Que tous les mots avons nouvelle lune What the deuce has Herbtet (Chnsttan) done With hts pamtmg' Fntz still roanng at tretze rue Gay de Lussac wtth hts stone head still on the balcony' Orage, Fordte, Crevel too qutckly taken de rms soledades vengan lay there tlll Rossett1 found 1t remamdered at about two pence (Cythera, m the moon's barge whtther> how hast thou the crescent for car> or dtd they fall because of their loose taste m music .. Here' none of that mathematical mus•c ' " Said the Kommandant when Munch offered Bach to the regtment or Spewcim the all too human beloved m the eyetahan penmsula 5 10

for quite exphcable reasons so that even I can now tolerate man seht but w1th the loss of cntena and the wandenng almost-tenor explamed to me well, the operas m the usual repert01re have been s1fted out, there's a reason Les hommes ont Je ne sa1s quelle peur etrange, said Monsieur Whoosis, de la beaute La beaute, •• Beauty 1s difficult, Ye"lts " said Aubrey Beardsley when Yeats asked why he drew horrors or at least not Burne-Jones and Beardsley knew he was dymg and had to make his hit qu1ckly hence no more B-J m his product So very difficult, Yeats, beauty so ddficult

.. I am the torch " wrote Arthur •• she saith " tn the moon barge ppo8o8aKTUAO Hw w1th the veil of famt cloud before her Kv87Jpa. 8erva as a leaf borne m the current pale eyes as If Without fire all that Sandro knew, and Jacopo and that Velasquez never suspected lost m the brown meat of Rembrandt and the raw meat of Rubens and Jordaens •• This alone, leather and bones between you and To ra.v," [ toh pan, the all] (Chu Hs1's comment) 5II

or the bone luz as the gram seed and the b1ceps books, arms, men, as W1th S1g1Smundo and of portraits m our time Cocteau by Mane Laurencm and Whistler's M1ss Alexander (and the three fat lad1es by Sargent, advei sely) and somebody's portrait of Rodenbach With a background as 1t rmght be L'Ile St Louis for seremty, under Abelard's bndges for those trees are Elys1um for seremty 7ravTa. pEt under Abelard's bndges for those trees are seremty as he had walked under the ram altars or under the trees of thetr grove or would it be under thetr parapets 10 rus movmg was sttllness as grey stone m the Ahscans or had been at Mt Segur and It was old Spencer (, H ) who first declarmed me the Odyssey With a head bUilt hke Bill Shepard's on the quais of what Siracusa) or what tenms court near what pme trees� care and craft m formmg leagues and alhances that avatl nothmg agamst the decree the folly of attackmg that Island and of the force k�p p.6pov

With a mmd hke that he IS one of us Favonus, vento bemgno Je SUIS au bout de mes forces/ 5 12.

That from the gates of death, that from the gates of death Wh1tman or Lovelace found on the JO-house seat at that m a cheap ed1t10n 1 [and thanks to Professor Speare] hast'ou swum m a sea of a1r stnp through an aeon of nothmgness, when the raft broke and the waters went over me, Immaculata, Intro1bo for those who dnnk of the b1tterness Perpetua, Agatha, Anastas1a saeculorum rcpos donnez a c1ls senza termme funge Immaculata Regtna Les larmes que 1'a1 creees m'mondent Tard, tres tard Je t'a1 connue, la Tnstesse, I have been hard as youth s1xty years 1f calm be after ternpest that the ants seem to wobble as the mormng sun catches the1r shadows (Nadasky, Duett, McAlhster, also Comfort K P spec1al ment1on on s1ck call Penneth, Turner, Toth h1en (no fortune and With a name to come ) Bankers, Se1tz, Hildebrand and Cornehson Armstrong special ment10n K P White gratia Bedell grat1a Wiseman (not W1lham ) afncanus With a smoky torch thru the unendmg labynnth of the souterram or remembermg Carleton let h1m celebrate Chnst m the gram and 1f the corn cat be beaten Demeter has lam m my furrow 513

Th1s wmd IS hghter than swansdown the day moves not at all (Zupp, Bufford, and Bohon ) men of no fortune and wxth a name to come h1s helmet 1s used for a p1sspot th1s helmet 1s used for my footbath Elpenor can count the shmgle under Zoagh Pepxtone was wastmg toothwash as I lay by the dram hole the guard's opm10n 1S lower than that of the pnsoners 0

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Oh to be m England now that Wmston's out Now that there's room for doubt And the bank may be the nat1on's And the long years of patience And labour's vacillatlOns May have let the bacon come home, To watch how they'll shp and shde watch how they'll try to hide the real portent To watch a wh1le from the tower where dead fhes he th1ck over the old charter forgotten, oh quite forgotten but confirmmg John's first one, and sttll there tf you chmb over att1c rafters • to look at the fields, are they t11led') 1s the old terrace ahve as 1t might be w1th a whole colony 1f money be free a gam'> 5 !4

Chesterton's England of has-been and why-not, or 1s It all rust, rum, death duttes and mortgages and the great carnage yard empty and more pictures gone to pay taxes When a dog IS tall b ..1t not so tall as all that that dog IS a Talbot ( a btt long m the pasterns';) ) When a butt IS 1'2 a s tall a s a whole butt That butt IS a small butt Let backe and stde go bare and the old kttchen left as the monl..s had left 1t and the rest as tnne has cleft It [Only shadows enter my tent as men pass between me and the sunset, ] beyond the eastern barbed Wire a sow With mne boneen matronly as any duchess at Clandge's and for that Chnstmas at Maune Hewlett's Gomg out from Southampton they passed the car by the dozen who would not have shown wetght on a scale rxdxng, ndmg for Noel the green holly Noel, Noel, the green holly A dark mght for the holly That would have been Sahsbury plaxn, and I have not thought of the Lady Anne for thts twelve years Nor of Le Portel How txny the panelled room where they stabbed him In her lap, almost, La Stuarda

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S1 tUit h dolh ehl planh el marnmen for the leopards and broom plants Tudor mdeed 1s gone and every rose, Blood-red, blanch-white that m the sunset glows " Blood, Blood, Blood 1 " agamst the gothtc stone Cnes Of England, as the Howard or Boleyn knows Nor seeks the carmme petal to mfer, Nor IS the whtte bud Time's mqulSltor Probmg to know tf Its new-gnarled root Twtsts from York's head or belly of Lancaster , Or tf a rattonal soul should sttr, perchance, Withm the stem or summer shoot to advance Contnt10n's utmost throw, seekmg m thee But obhv10n, not thy forgiveness, FRANCE the young hzard extends his leopard spots along the grass-blade seekmg the green midge half an ant-stze and the Serpentme Will look JUSt the same and the gulls be as neat on the pond and the sunken garden unchanged and God knows what else 1s left of our London my London, your London and If her green elegance remams on thts side of my ram ditch puss hzard wtll lunch on some other T-bone

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hes m Ceres' bosom Ta1shan IS attended of loves under Cythera, before sunnse and he said " Hay aqui mucho catohcismo-- ( sounded catohth1Smo) y muy poco rehH10n " and he said '' Yo creo que los reyes desaparecen " (Kmgs Will, I thmk, dmppear) That was Padre Jose Ehzondo m 1 906 and m 1 9 17 or about 1 9 1 7 and Dolores said " Come pan, nuio," eat bread, me lad Sargent had pamted her before he descended (1 e If he descended but m those days he did thumb sketches, ImpressiOns of the Velazquez m the Museo del Prado and books cost a peseta, brass candlesticks m proportion, hot wmd came from the marshes and death-chill from the mountams And later Bowers wrote .. but such hatred, I had never conceived such " and the London reds wouldn't show up rus fnends (1 e friends of Franco workmg m London) and m Alcazar forty years gone, they satd go back to the station to eat you can sleep here for a peseta " goat bells tmkled all mght and the hostess gnnned Eso es luto, haw' m1 mando es muerto (1t IS mournmg, my husband IS dead)

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when she gave me paper to wnte on With a black border half an mch or more deep, say 5 /Sths, of the locanda " We call all foreigners frenchres " and the egg broke m Cabranez' pocket, thus mal'"mg history Basil says they beat drums for three days till all the drumheads were busted (s1mple Village fiesta) and as for h1s hfe m the Cananes Possum observed that the local portagoose folk dance was danced by the same dancers m divers locahttes m poht1c-tl welcome the techmque of dcmonstratwn Cole stud1ed that (not G D H , Horace ) •• You w11l find " said old Andre Sptre, that every man on that board ( Credtt Agncole) has a brother-m-law " You the one, I the few " satd John Adams speakmg of fears m the abstract to hts volatile friend Mr Jefferson (To break the pentameter, that was the first heave ) or as Jo 'Bard says they never speak to each other, xf it IS baker and concterge VlSlbly tt 1s La Rouchefoucauld and de Mamtenon audtbly " Te cavero le budella " '' La corata a te '' In less than a geologtcal epoch satd Henry Mencken •• Some cook, some do not cook some thmgs cannot be altered" 'Itry�

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What counts IS the cultural level, thank Benm for th1s table ex packmg box 5 !8

one I made 1t " from a mask fine as any m Frankfurt •• It'll get you offn th' groun " Ltght as the branch of Kuanon And at first dtsappomted With shoddy the bare ram-shackle quats, but then saw the htgh buggy wheels and was reconciled, George Santayana arrtvmg 1n the port of Boston and kept to the end of hts hfe that famt thethcar of the Spanxard as a grace qu'lst tmpercepttble as dtd Muss the v for u of Rom-agna and satd the gnef was a full act repeated for each new condolere�s workmg up to a chmax .and George Horace satd he wd/ " get Bevendge " (Senator) Bevendge wouldn't talk and he wouldn't wnte for the papers but Geotge got him by campm' m hts hotel and assathn' h1m at lunch breakfast an' dmner three arttcles and my ole man went on hot.m' corn while George was a-tellm' htm, come across a vacant lot where you'd occasiOnally see a wtld r.r.bbtt or mebbe only a loose one

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Yet Ere the season dxed a-cold Borne upon a zephyr's shoulder I rose through the aureate sky

Lawes and ]mkym g1tard th-v rest Dolmetsch ever be thy guest, 5 I9

Has he tempered the vwl's wood To enforce both the grave and the acute'> Has he curved us the bowl of the lute"> Lawes and Jmkyns guard tby rest Dolmetsch ever be ihJ' guest Hast 'ou fashiOned so airy a mood To draw up leaf from the root"> Hast 'ou found a cloud so hght As seemed neither mist nor shade'> Then resolve me, tell me anght If Waller sang or Dowland played Your eyen two wol sleye me sodenly I may the beaute of hem nat susteyne And for I 8o years almost nothmg Ed ascoltando a! leggier moimono there came new subtlety of eyes mto my tent, whether of spmt or hypostasis, but what the bhndfold h1des or at carneval nor any pau showed an�er Saw but the eyes and stance between the eyes, colour, dtastasts, careless or unaware 1t had not the whole tent's room not was place for the full EL8ci,� mterpass, penetrate castmg but shade beyond the other hghts sky's clear mght's sea green of the mountam pool shone from the unmasked eyes m half-mask's space What thou lovest well remams, 5 20

the rest IS dross What thou lov'st well shall not be 1 cft from thee What thou lov'st well Is thy true hentage Whose world, or mme or theirs or IS It of none) Fmt came the seen, then thus the p'llpable Elysium, though It were m the halls of hell, What thou lovest well Is thy true hentage What thou lov'st well shall not be reft from thee The ant's a centaur m his dragon world Pull down thy vamty, 1t 1s not man Made courage, or made order, or made grace, Pull down thy vamty, I say pull down Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled mventwn or true artistry, Pull down thy vamty, Paqum pull down' The green casque has outdone your eleg'lnce " Master thyself, then otPers sh'lll thee beare '' Pull down thy vamty Thou art a beaten dog beneath the ha1l, A swollen magpre m a fitful sun, Half black half wh1te Nor kno\Vst'ou wmg from ta1l Pull down thy vamty How mean thy hates Fostered m fals1ty, Pull down thy vamty, Rathe to destroy, mggard m chanty, Pull down thy vamty, I say pull down But to have done mstead of not domg this IS not vamty pi

To have, With decency, knocked That a Blunt should open To have gathered from the a r a hve trad1t10n or from a fine old eye the unconquered flame Th1s 1s not vamty Here enor 1s all m the not done, all m the d1ffi.dence that faltered

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w1th hrs huntmg dog I see a cloud " Guten Morgen, Mem Herr " yells the black boy from the JO-cart

(Jeffers, Lovell and Harley also Mr Walls who has lent me a razor Persha, Nadaskv and Harbcll)

Swmburne my only m1ss and I didn't know he'd been to see Landor a1zd they told me tlm that an' tother and when old Mathews went he saw the three teacups two for Watts Dunton who hked to let his tea cool, So old Elkm had only one glory He drd carry Algernon's su1t case once when he, Elkm, first came to London But gtven what I know now I'd have got thru It somehow D1rce's shade or a blackJack When the french fishermen hauled hun out he recited 'em mtght have been Aeschyh.s till they got mto Le Porte!, or wherever m the ongmal " On the Atreides' roof •• hke a dog and a good JOb

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hac dextera mo1 tus dead by thts hand beheve Lytton first saw Blunt m the bull rmg 5 23

as It mxght have been brother Packard and " our brother Percy " Basmio's manuscnpt With the greek moulds xn the margm Otis, Soncmo, the " marble men " shall pass mto nothmgness, Three birds on the Wire so requested Mr Clowes to sleep on the same and as to who wd/ p'ly for the compositlOn If same were not used ( Elh..m Mathews, my bantam) After all " said Mr Birrell, " It IS only the old story of Tom Moore and Rogers " Her Ladyship arose m the mght and moved all the furmture ( that IS her Ladyship YX) her Ladyship Z dishked dmmg alone and The proud shall not he by the proud am1d dim green hghted wlth candles Mabel Beardsley's red head for a glory Mr Masefield murmurmg Death and Old Neptune meamng somethmg unse1zable m a discussion of Flaubert Miss Tomczyk, the medxum baffhng the soc1ety for metaphysical research and the Idea that CONversation should not utterly Wither even I can remember at I 8 Woburn Buildmgs Saxd Mr Tancred of the Jerusalem and Sicuy Tancreds, to Yeats, .. If you would read us one of your own choice and perfect 5 24

lyncs " and more's the pity that D1ckens died twice With the disappearance of Tancred and for all that old Ford's conversation was better, consiStmg m res non verba, despite Wilham's anecdotes, m that Fordze never dented an Idea for a phrase's sake and had mo,. humamt"

t:.

Jen

(C:ythera C:ythera) With Dirce m one bark convey'd Be glad poor beaste, love follows after thee Till the cncket hops but does not crurrp m the dnll field 8th day of September £ £ d g wrzte the birds m thetr treble scale Terreus' Terreus' there are no nghteous wars

..

The Spnng and Au­ tumn " that zs, perfectly nght on one szde or the other total right on either szde of the battle lme and the news 1s a long ttme movmg a long trme m arr1vmg thru the Impenetrable crystallme, mdestructzble Ignorance of locahty The news was qu1cker m Troy's nme a match on C:mdos, a glow worm on M.ttylene, Till forty years smce, Re1thmuller mdtgnant 525

m

•• Fvy' m Tdaenmarck efen dh' beasantz gnow hun,'' meamng Whttman, exottc, stul suspect four mtles from Camden " 0 troubled reflectwn •• 0 Throat, 0 throbbmg heart ,, How drawn, 0 GEA TERRA, what draws as thou drawest till one smk mto thee by an arm's Width embracmg thee Drawest, truly thou drawest Wxsdom hes next thee, srmply, past metaphor Where I he let the thyme me and bastltcum let the herbs me m Apnl abundant By Ferrara was buned naked, fu Ntcolo e dt qua dt la del Po, wmd 'Ep.?,v TOV aJ Spa. he mto earth to the breast bone, to the left shoulder Kiphng suspected 1t to the hetght of ten mches or over man, earth two halves of the tally but I Will come out of thts knowmg no one netther they me lcf>a.Ta. 71'00'�'> EJ.LO'i connubtum terrae X®ONIO�, mystenum flmd X®ONO� o'erflowed me lay m the flUld X®ONOl, that he under the atr's sohdtty drunk Wtth 'IXOP of X®ONIO� flutd X®ONOl, strong as the undertow of the wave recedmg but that a man should hve m that further terror, and hve

p6

the lonelmess of death came upon me (at 3 P M , for an mstant)

8a.Kpvwv (JITCiJII(V

three solemn half notes their white downy chests blach.-nmmed on the mtddle Wire penplum

5 27

LXXXIII ilofi)P

HUDOR et Pax GemlSto stemmed all from Neptune hence the Rimtm bas rehefs Sd \1r Yeats (\Y/ B ) " Nothmg affects these people Except our conversat10n '' lux emm 1gms est accxdens and, wrote the prete m his ed1t10n of Scotus Hxlantas the virtue hzlarttas the queen stitched Kmg Carolus' sh1rts or whatever while Engena put greek tags m h1s excellent verses m fact an excellent poet, Pans tOUJOUrs Pan' (Charles le Chauve) and you might find a b1t of enamel a bit of true blue enamel on a metal pyx or whatever omma, quae sunt, lumma sunt, or whatever so they dug up hxs bones m the time of De Montfort (Sunon) Le Paradis n'est pas artrfic1el and Uncle Wxlham dawdhng around Notre Dame m search of whatever paused to admtre the symbol wxth Notre Dame standmg mstde 1t Whereas m St Etienne p .8

or why not De1 M1racoh mermaids, that carvmg, m the drenched tent there ts quiet sered eyes are at rest the ram beat as With colour of feldspar blue as the flymg fish off Zoagh

0 pax, t oup

fV A np � wu

the sage dehghteth m water the humane man has amity With the hills the grass grows by the weirs thought Uncle Wtlham conmos as the gr"lss on the roof of St What's his name near " Cane e Gatto '' soli de1ne Ltebe sem It would be about a-level the wmdows the gi ass would, or I dare sav above that when they bless the wax for the Paho as

Ohm de Malatestis With Mana's face there m the fresco pamted two centunes sooner, at least that before she wore It As Montmo's m that fam1ly group of about r 8 2o not wholly Hardy's matenal

as he was standmg below the altars of the spmts of ram 5 29

•• When every hollow

IS full It moves forward " to the phantom mountam above the cloud But m the caged panther's eyes

.. Nothmg Nothmg that you can do ., green pool, under green of the JUngle, caged .. Nothmg, nothmg that you can do " t..pvcfven m the Eng!ISh text, transhterattons as m Couvreur and Mathews

5 59

LXXXVI WITH sohc1tude

IV

XVI I 8

that 1mrroun d turbationem, Bismarck forgotten, fantasia Without balance-wheel, 'No more wars after '70" (Bismarck ) "Dummheit, rucht Boshe1t," said old Marghenta (or Elenor > dowager) "Sono tutti eretlci, Santo Padre, ma non sono cattiVl " Mmd (the Katser's) hke loose dice m a box Ballm said "If I had known, wdj mdeed have stuffed all Hamburg with gratn " Bulow beheved him But Talleyrand set up BelgiUm, Two dynasties, two buffer states, wdj have set Poland So that Belgtum saved Frogland, Svizzera neutral XVI 20 only two of us who will roll up our sleeves And Brancus1 repeating Je peux commencer une chose tous les Jours, mats ..

:fim.unr XVll, 7

Lost the feel of the people XVlll,

19

•

XV.111, S

way repeatedly not clean, no1sy, & your hearts loveless

.2.2

Get men, 1t will grow Mili.tes mstar ursorum, xxm, 5, men strong as bears Not m two mmds J6ung touan

Edlctorum

1ao ta seu te f

ti hum

(XX1V, I I)

ta ruun

Qws erudlet w1thout documenta � even barbanans who button their coats t'other way on

13

Non penturum loue sm

leadmg to MenciUs, ch14 (453 , Mathews)

(XX1v, 1 5)

f�

MOU WANG

�

£

Kmg Mou

repeatmg the

• ,'Jt

j!{

tou

tchoung

tchen

to Kmn Ia, 3rd of h1s lme m office "The1r names are banner'd, year'd on the T'a1 Tch'ang tch'ang

the

Now my turn for thm 1ce and ttgers L1ve up to your hne and the constltutlon

ettam

habttus msp1c1endus

•

1001-946

-

A It may depend on one man as m the case of Edwardus and von Hoesch on the telephone to good for three years, or to evll Eva's pa heard that on the telephone, but forgetful of B1smarck, lost to

all 14

"No wars after

'70 "

"Ntcht Boshert, Dummhe1tl" "Sono tutti eretto, Santo Padre, ma

non sono catttv1 "

It can't be all m one language" "They are

all prots YR

but not bad

HOLINESS,

Yes yrj Hohness, they arc all of them prots "Wd/ have filled Hamburg wtth gram " "No, Miss Wt'let, on account of bischruz relations " 20 years to crush Bonaparte, gold through France mto Spam The purchase and sale of Geschaft, and Buchanan's remark about monarchies (r8so to Pierce) ment10rung only those on the Contment questiOn> England not yet sold for the Suez ­ That would have been 20 years later, or was It '74> At any rate, sold down the nver, passed over Parhament, "whatever else he beheved m, 1t was not representative governmept' Nor VlSlble respons1btht1es All, that has been, 1s as It should have been, but what will they trust m "

"Alla non della", m the Verona statement Section Rock Drill Alexander patd the debts of ms soldtery They thought there was a catch m 1t somewhere, but he set up the tables at camp's edge, "Any note will be patd " OBIT apud Babyloruos

(date out of Arnan) And 111 the great Hamurabi Inscnptton THEY LIED

That IS the RegiUs Professorships (apud Chns Hollis) to falsify history and Impose the Whig pomt of view "Such hatred" wrote Bowers, and La Spagnuola saymg "We are perfectly useless, on top, but they lalled the baker and cobbler " "Don't wnte me any more thmgs to tell him (scnpsit Woodward, W E ) "on these occaswns

HE

talks " (End quote) "What" (Cato speakmg) "do you thmk of murder�" But some Habsburg or other ploughed hts Impenal furrow, And old Theresa's road IS sull there m Belg1um Tree-shadowed and her thalers were current m Afnca, standard m our t1me, "characters by their comage" , Cleopatra wrote of her comage (Joseph two, venfy ploughed hts furrow) �

Up out of Tuscanv, Leopoldme "We don't hate anvbody " Quoted Konody, We fight when our Emperor says so " (Austnans 1914) "Decent chaps" (Schwartz '43) 'a shame that we have to fight 'em " "Ma1s le pruss1en ' Le pruSSien c' est un clue homme " Sa1d the aged femme de menage W1th four teeth out "Vous voullez me rouler, ma�s 'ous ne me roulerez pas, "paaasque Je sws trop rosse " hogantmm dona

fe1 pao

non coelum non m med10 but man 1s under Fortuna > that 1s a forced translatiOn� La donna che volgo Man under Fortune, CrffiN

..

-

�

�- -

- ---

��· -

lou Wang, 770

Kmg Jou killed by barbanans "I

fp

Houo

m augustus me defen about '32 ' hystenc presidmg over 1t all" '39 House, Foreign Relations Bellum cano perenne

LXXXVII between the usurer and any man who wants to do a good JOb (perenne) without regard to production a charge for the use of money or credit "Why do you want to - perche si vuol mettere your Ideas m order �" Date

' 32

Or Grock Ou s:a �

(J'a1

une Idee ) Grock Ou s:a •

Berchtold as If been blown up by dyn:urute, Calm on the surface If I had known more then, cdj have asked

him,

as Varcht - one wantmg the facts Of Roanoke, EIGHTEEN

31

"Nation silly to borrow Its own " Polk, Tyler, an honour roll patdeuma fadmg, Buchanan still fa�rly clean, Infantlhsm mcreasmg till our

time,

attention to outlet, no attention to source, That 1s the problem of Issue

Who issues tt > How • And after the year 1600 Nakae TOJi earned Wat'

Ya'

(name worn out m some dialc...cts) Mm's lamp to Nippon The total dtrt that was Roosevelt, and the farce that was Churchill

f

(vide Grenfell re phoney war) "But", said Antorunus,

"Law rules the sea ' "And that the state shd/ have benefit from pnvate nusfortune, not m my tlme, not under me ' Unttl SalmaslUS, wantmg preclSlon want, xpetcx, "Common practlce 1" sdjAn re busmess , "Cog1tatio, medttatto, contemplatto " Wrote Rlchardus, and Dante read hlm Centrum ctrcuh Remove the mythologtes before they estabhsh clean values "Europe" satd Ptcabta "exhausted by the conquest of Alsace-Lorratne " Vlammck. "

1s local

"

"Art 1s "

The pusillammous wantlng all men cut down to worm stze Wops, maggots, crumbled from s1mple dishonesty 8���opov

�8ea't'ov e�

a.O't'ou

t:p6£ve� npo�

quta tmposs1btle est Ver novum are protected of course, htc est medium

57 0

xa.xo'i:a�

ch1h m the 3 rdj tone and a radical Was not unammous •

That IS

6 JUrors

A6&.va. broke tie,

agamst

6 JUrors

needed •A6&.va. Right, all of It, was under Shang save what came m Athens

Y Ym,

Ocellus, Engena "All thmgs are hghts "

Greek tags m Engena's verses And when they bumped off Alexander

m Babylon

that wrecked, satd Golhevskt "a good deal" Greece had no Quattrocento Justnuan's codes meffic1ent "abb1amo fatto un mucch10 (a haystack of laws on paper) Mus v1va voce "We ask 'em to settle between 'em If they can't, the State mtervenes " They deny, of course, but 1t percolates, Ocellus

hsm

¥r

the fatnt green m spnng time The play �haped from A.oytC6p.evov gospoda �:rJavetpa, A.ap.1rp0. crvp.{3atvet

5 7I

From the dawn blaze to sunset "What has been, should have 'All metal as barter' Destutt or whomso, "Pity to stamp save by weight " Always the undertow, gold-bugs agamst ANY ordt..r, Seekmg the common (as An says) practice for squeeze d!rectio voluntatis "An mstrument

Q[ pohcy

even more than a measure " Srud Douglas

(C H )

and the sqmrmers plunder men's mmd, wantmg all men cut down to worm-s1ze "A few" sa1d Jean

C "gros legumes '

m pocru, causa motuum, pme seed sphttmg chff's edge Only sequo1as are slow enough BmBm "Is beauty "Slowness 1s beauty " from the

__..

-

1Jll 57 2

San

Ku to P01ct1ers

The tower wherem, at one pomt, IS no shadow, and Jacques de Malay, IS where > and the "Sect10n" , the proportions, lendmg, perhaps, not at mterest, but reslStmg Then false fronts, barocco "We have" , sa1d Mencms, "but phenomena " monumenta In nature are signatures needmg no verbal tradition, oak leaf never plane leaf John Heydon

�eA.Aot sleep there on the ground And old Jarge held there was a trad1tton, that was not mere eplStemology Mohamedans will remain, - naturally - unconverted If you remove houns from Paradise as to hsm

In short, the cosmos contmues and there IS an observation somewhere m Mornson leadmg to Remy > Bombs fell, but not qwte on Sant'Ambrogio Baccm said I planted that tree, and that tree (ullVl) Monsieur F saw his mentor composed almost wholly of light (Wmdeler' s VIsion his letter file the size of 2 lumps of sugar, but the sheet legible Santa Teresa Butchers of lesser cattle, their villain the gra1n god Fell between horns, but up and the murmur "salta sm barra,"

573

There 1s no such play for a goat Tho' Mr Patge has descnbcd Ltgunan butchery, And the huntmg tnbes rcqmre some preparation Mont Segur, sacred to Hehos, and for what had been, San Butrand de Commmges "Wh

577

where there was a law agamst dudlmg I alone knew how he meant to avmd that I went to Clay's on the Fnday, the youngest child went to sleep on the sofa Mrs Clay, as always smce the death of her daughter, the p1cturc of desolatiOn But calm and conversable Clay and I parted at rmdmght Saturday, Randolph's, Georgetown, Could not ask h1m but mennoned the chlld asleep on the sofa He sa1d "I shall do nothmg to disturb 1ts sleep or the repose of tts mother', and went on makmg cod1cus for thmgs of shght value, To Macon, some enghsh shuhngs to keep game when he played whist, Young Bryan sent back to school to save h1m shock tf and so forth Wanted gold, coms not then m c1rculat10n, sent Johnny to Branch bank to get a few pteces, who returned, saytng they had none "They are hars from the begmmg My HORSE'" wh1ch was brought htm, for he never rode Johnny's Down Penn Avenue to what ts now Corcoran, Riggs, Johnny behtnd htm at 40 paces Asked for the state of hts account The teller took up packages of bills and asked m what slZe notes he wd/ have 1t *

57 8

'I

want money " srud Mr Randolph The teller, begmmg to understand 1um, srud Silver� "My MONEY'" said Mr Randolph 'Have you a cart, Mr Randolph�" By that tJ.me the cas1uer told him there was a rmstake 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 killed, And a shp to read before I got to the ground to feel m 1us breeches pocket nme pieces, I thmk It was, 3 for me, Tatnall, Hamilton, each to make seals of, as mementos We were all three then at 1us lodgmgs He and the seconds took carnage, I followed on horseback His (R's) stepfather brought out a "Blackstone" {a D 1804) The place was a thick forest m whtch a httle depressiOn or basts Bellum perenne 1694 on what It creates out of nothmg 1750 shut down on colorual paper Lexmgton, '64 "greatest blessmg" srud Lmcoln 1878 m arculatton as currency sangue, Jattea, m our tJ.me 5 79

And then. I�, undoubtt. dl) , blood on their silver, Wrthout honour mt.n smk mto servitude Responsible, or trn.sponsible government > Mtrumum

of land

\\

tthout surveillance

And as to pt.erag

& do not mow the high stalks ANTONINUS re1gned 1 3 8 to 161 SEVERUS and Juha Domna about 1 9 8

eAA1JV(�OV't'IX� !Lev 'EAA1]'11LXC>Y

agamst that schnorrer Euphrates and he sa1d to D10n Set 1t to mus1c and sent the hon up country after sacnfi.ce to Amas1s

as

t1r' «0-r& &8ov-re�

& keepmg the N:Ue on then nght hand about ten of them went Wlth Apollomus "!L� O�OAO� O�OA0'\1 't'SX1J"

"Wruch 1s all nuts" sa1d Apollomus, "The Afncans have more sense than the greeks" book S1x, chap 2 ' Hcpcp Mt!J.VO'II L Memnon of the Dawn the one word meanmg to burn and be warm tjlux� &Mvct-ro� � -rl !J.e't'� �cpoi:ow s6w 't'L!J.1J't'SOV

*

That 1t 1s of thrones, and above them Justlce Acre, agam,

with an Eleanor who sucked the venom out of his wound, and came up v1a Padua, for a balance of wme & wool, distramt and tolls not unbndled and m 1288 a thunderbolt passed between them this wdj be m the tlme of Fedenco Secondo, Alfonso, St Lows, and Magnus of Norway and two years later she died and his luck went out, Edwardus, who played Bahol agamst the Bruce and brought the stone down to London where It Is seen to this day PACTUM SERVA Be Tra1st As against anyone who takes his blessmgs mto a comer, and after that we will go up to the Cataracts xcxl. xe:/..oc�ou'Joc; &xouacx� cl>cx'J't'oca£oc aocpro't'epcx !L�!J.�ae:roc;

not baffied by terror, and wanted to keep Sparta, Sparta, that the kmg

£

shd/ be long

£ !J.� e'.IO!J.r.AOU'J't'(l)'J not a meltmg pot &

when Athens exceded the tnbutes set by Ansndes,

Coke, after he got mto Parhament, The boat of Ra-Set moves with the sun

"To

bwld hght

Jth

hsm satd Ocellus

XCV LOVE, gone as hghtnmg, endurmg sooo years Shall the comet cease movmg or the great stars be tted m one place I "Consonanttum demonstratru( � SOPHIA what w1ll not do, Are dJ.stmgU1shed by what they will not­ Canmbals wdf res1st cannenes, Ersatz a given state of enhghtenment, sc1enza XIV

Thru the ten vmces of the tradition the land has been ploughed t'lenz t14 &

there have been taxes m kmd, and by (hangz) measure

Th1s 1s Important as to the scope of such taxes

all Courts have levied them the nght pattern of levy 1s yang4 cheng1 Id est for use not a fountam of folderols for top poppmJays Wranghngs won't get you out of 1t Hlgh & low, top & under

INCORPORATE &

one body

The ups are not malevolent, you might consider the1r comphcatlons, Dykes for flood-water, someone must build 'em , must plan 'em, By the ten mouths of the tradition have peace Meanmg get nd of cnmmahty Catch 'em 1 Ancestral sprmg makmg breed, a pattern Yong (2 2 "

12

3)

mches, gumea an mch l " sa�d

Elkm Mathews

m rrgard to Courtney's reVIew The State IS corporate as With pulse m Its body

&

w1th Chou nte at the root of tt

The root IS thru all of It, a tone m all pubhc teachmg This 1s not a work of fiction nor yet of one man The six ktnds of actton, fihal, reciprocal, Smcenty from of old until now, holdmg together Not shallow m verbal usage nor m dissociatiOns , Shallow pndes, feeble dissociatiOns, And spend their time slantmg rumours , keep thmgs off center slander and blabber-mouth , Ratl , scold and ructlons , manesco and the whole farmly suffers The whole tnbe 1s from one man's body, what other way can you thmk of It • The surname, and the 9 arts The father's word 1s compassiOn , The son's, fihahty The brother's word mutuahty , The younger's word deference Small birds smg m chorus, Harmony 1s m the proportion of branches as clanty (chao') Compasswn, tree's root and water-sprmg , The state order, ms1de a boundary , Law rec1proc1ty What 1s statute save reCiprocity >

One village m order, one valley will reach the four seas CH.�N, yo el Rey, Wlsh you to tlunk of tlus :EDICT 4 HaVIng heard that proVlslOns are the root of the people (logtsttca) nung sang To sprout m season and have trees for your sllk-worms, One btg chap not plow, one female not weave Can mean shortage, From of old the soveretgn hkes plowmg & the Empress tends trees Wlth reverence, Nor shnnk: from the heat of labour

�IS

The plan 1s

m

an

omen

nature

rooted Commg from earth, ttmes (ch'ang2) respected Thetr powers convergmg (chu four assemble There 1s a must at the root of 1t not one man's mere power, Thru htgh-low, parch and dampness Hlgh, dry for pamcled millet Damp, low for nee (non-glutmous) and paddy wu= mu ch'1= ymg= pet4 h4

(mterest) not for a qmck buck at high mterest the legal rate does not exhaust tlungs (Byzance did better) Don't bum to abandon productiOn and go mto tradmg, Dig up root to chase branches vide M1chelet & Ambrose "De Tobia" The rate m Byzance was lower, as can contmuous far (que fa doure) Estabhshed that everybody got some educatiOn AND you had hterate Confucians m the burocracy, Focus of men of ab1hty sohchfied our good customs Shut out graceful bigots and moderate thundermg phall01 (this IS a m1stranslat10n) Strong, weak, to one cooperat1on, our SAGE FOREBEAR exammed to stnnulate anagog1co and more especially magrufi.ed schoolseverything that wd/ brmg up espnt de corps enx

IJ:1 �

tramed rus officers not to slant government and to be ready for anything I st/ the bas1c m rus own practice, then village usage to see what style for the casting Filiahty and fraterruty are the root, 710

Talents to be considered as branches Prec1se ternunology IS the first Implement, dish and contamer, After that the 9 arts AND study the classic books, the straight history all of It candid With straight officers Be fnends chiao' commurucate, They are your commurucat10ns, a hasty chmp may raise rum You, soldiers, ClVlhans, are not headed to be professors The bas1s 1s man, and the rect1ficat10n of officers But the four TUAN are from nature Jen, 1, h, chili Not from descnpt10ns m the school house , They are the scholar's JOb, the gentleman's and the officer's There 1s worsh1p m plowmg and eqwty m the weedmg hoe, A field marshal can be hterate M1ght we see 1t again m our day! 7 All I want 1s a generous spmt m customs rst/ honest man's heart demands sane curncula 7II

(no, that 1s not textual) Let hun analyze the tnck programs and fake foundatlons The fu Jen rece1ves heaven, earth, nnddle and grows

7 1 2.

c "Has packed the Supreme Court

so they will declare anytlung he does constitutional " Senator Wheeler, 1939 and some Habsburg ploughed Ins Impenal furrow Eu ZoOnNot that never should, but If exceeding and no one protest, will lose all of your hberties "Would have thought of something" said Joffre of Napoleon And Lerun "Aesopian language (under censorslup) where I wrote 'Japan' you may read 'Russia'", And small bank accounts are now guaranteed

-

By mcrease of debt ' strengthen• • w1th posmg as Moslem • "not a trial but a measure" comrmtted Danton And which Henry comnntted Jo Skelton• Wiseman to Isaacs, Aug 18, 1918 "try to shift power to the .Executive" 1 e out of Congress No french pubhc debt before Francis (at 87'2 to the hundred) -S W fished out of a duck-pondAfter Mazarm over 400 million, I thmk four hundred and thirty PER.ENNE

BELLUM "not construcnf " but the Code out of Corstca Ctvthzat10n from Peloponesus Matson Quarree, by greek workmen Gave up to England (1708) The monopoly Of the slave trade, at thls ttme Gtbraltar and the old bttch de MedtClS dted m nusena, '29, John Law obtt as you may read m San M01se, m the pavement, SUMBAINAI Grevttch, bug-house, m anagram "Out of vast a really sense of proportiOn and mstantly " wanted me to type-wnte hts name on an handkerchtef In 1766 was beheaded, m the charnung small town ofAbbevtlle, Young Labarre, for readmg Arouet de Voltatre, where the stream runs close between houses I 8 I0-'6r, Cavour , 1 8 19 to mneteen one Hohenlohe, Clodovtc Carlos Vtctor, Peace from '70 unttl 1914 Chez nous la presse est encore trcs peu ctvthzee thts to Napoleon Thtrd, '67 '69 southern Slavs agamst umon wtth Russta Feb 24 Zollverem "the pecuhanttes of french character" wrote Pnnce Napoleon, Iorudes dtd not hke htm Count Usedom Btsmarck, hke all germans, fanatlc,

A fanatl.c for peace I 868 m December

(cf/ no

more wars after '70)

Clodovic against capital pUlllshment and for representation, of some sort, by trades Ultramontames bitched France and then Austrta, anstos are Ignorant plus Illiteracy of the ploots 'JESUS ! ! " quoth the Queen, 1 5 84 anno Domm1, "sterlmg, pund sterlmg how much � IJ ,OOO It 1s not to be looked for " From ploughmg of fields IS JUStl.ce, and If words be not sohd Von Moltke, Fontamebleau, r 867, "a stag hunt"

"In

locis desertls

"laetamur, sllvts m medus "tondentur, occtd1tl.s, mulgentur "qmbus agrum cohos "Cruorem fundttl.s, "carnes mtrmsecus vos onerant "Corporum sepulcra mortuorum vtventla " Ambrose "De Brachmanorum" "That Vtrgmta be sovretgn," said Andy Jackson "never parted

wtth

Oh GAWD I l l that tenth sectlon "any portion of

"

DAMN

IT

George Second encouraged, the tanff of r8r6 murdered mdtgo Freemen do not look upward for bounty

Barley, nee, cotton, tax-free Wlth rulantas a rehgwn Letlzta, Dante, Canto I 8 Vtrtu enters Buona da se volonta Lume non e, se non dal sereno stone to stone, as a nver descendmg the sound a gemmed hght, form 1s from the lute's neck Jackson 83 , 8 3 Adams, no Jealousy m the North at that ttme "further errors of Monsieur de TocqueVllle" "Taney m place of Duane" Out of Erebus Where no mmd moves at all In crystal funnel of a1r Out of heavmess And that all gates (bah, gate) are holy Pandects I 8 out of Gams Consul for 4th t1me, December 7th To Wmdsor we owe three years PEACE AgassiZ, Kung, to avotd the enctrclement, La France, matson close "an' moh rehg10ns", sa1d Ltghtfoot "thanna dawg 1s got ham on 1ts back" So that the mtst was qmte wrute on that part of the sea-coast Le Portel, Phaecta and he dropped the scarf m the ttde-nps KREDEMNON

that 1t should float back to the sea, and that qmckly DEXATO XERSI w1th a fond hand AGERTHE But the1r techmque 1s two hes at once so there be no profit m confhct, CODE functwned m all Latm countnes nil even Bulgars had the1r Gesetzbuch m

Justln' s village

"Non della" (Verona) and J Austm, an Englander, attempted to separate law from moral plulosophy Of which the value sard Frank Harns, they deal m thmgs, always, the value of which 1s unknown No greek sells a slave out of Bellas S1lk news came up, by monks, out of India, Shmgled flakes on a moth's wmg

monetary

(2r8

a D)

commlSSlon Behsanus forbade cavalry to damage any man's standmg gram "NO, not THAT boat" shouted hls captam at Ratto, when the latter had mcely a1med his torpedo at a Lloyd Tnestmo m

which wops held certam shares Wanted her (%) mterest, De Stael did

"More" sa1d Santayana "for Rome than three Napoleons"

I suppose he meant than Nap had done for Pam

Nel mezzo

r::Jt

the crystal,

a green yellow flash after sunset

the

•

fu2 s prov1de no mental means for runrung an emp1re

nor has one seen taozers ascending m

a

m the white hght the pa1 Jlh w1th ten billion wordings

a

Ahghien, a rag over his eyes, and "They m1ss Tyler" (Stock wrote) "

as well as Polk and VanBuren "

"W1th the homed moon for his tea-pot, " does he need a clay model " or tongue words adorned With gilding • " Floating hands for a horse deal, " respectable Han folk " and these bnght speCimens huddled together"Bnght, Celestial,

"

wants your small change

"

and bears grudge tf he does not get 1t " (Wang on the Sheng Edtct, "

and a blaze of hght over Shenst)

"You will not be nusled by damn foohshness, "

If you don't swallow thetr buncomb,

"

you wont have to dnve 'em out "Peace gnps the earth m good manners , "Earth and water dye the atr m your valley " end quote "De Tnbus" (Fedenco

m

S1ctly, aulentlsSlma ver l'estate, and Fordle

"A DICttonary

and learn the meanmg of words I " Kuan

Mmg Double 1t Kuan

Mmg

:>t

JW

1f; ft})

Durch das Bankhaus Pacelh kompromtttlert and B Swan thought clVll war was the only means of gettmg (from Sparuards) five bucks (S) for one buck's worth of petrol

He'd been on "one of them boats" OLYMPIAD

236

A pyre

m Athens, by Peregrmus

Who chd not share Plarr's pomt o f v1ew, born m Panon Coelum tecto, Deus nee vendtt , Terra lecto, sed larg1tur and that Cantas leads to seremty Stead asked Douglas about the rupee Wlth the1r own gods to lead them nor sm by rmsnammg out of similitude mto gathermg "Mortal blame has no sound m her ears" Unci Remusat "Has not", "Aqumas has not "b1en rendue compte des conna1ssances a pnon " "Want to load" (Cocteau) "all the rest of 1t onto you " Engena, Anselm, Cherbury, Remusat, Truers was agamst mcome-tax: "the portal to mqulSltlOn" And from Psellos nght down to Degas No such nuances, old what's-her-name stewmg perfumes Durmg summer heat m Byzantium

72 0

to the d1stress of the serv1tu "Russ1a an ally" sa1d the old Comm1ss1oner (Agra) Neque aurum d1hgunt "that STICKS m

my throat " Gardner, A G Aug

I,

1 9 14

also specific Beauclerc the first norman duke who could read, Half the land, and slaves or how much belonged to the temples as Juhan not1ced ("Apostate") 2 m1llion d1ed for mvest1ture, Rome , Autun, Po1ct1ers , Benevento crosse ( +) et 1' anneau (0) !075 ' '77 ' ' 78 ' '87 et le prepuce at Puy en Vellay "To av01d other v1ews ' sa1d Herbert (De Ventate) "theu first cons1deratwn"

#

come zn sub;ecto

[ISSes amoureuses a temr

HYPOSTASIN EX OUSIAS PERI EROTAS III, 5, 3

W 72. 1

lueron

nous to anston autou as hght mto water compenetrans that 1s pathema ouk aplustata1" thus Plotmus per plura chafana ne1ther we1ghed out nor lundered, aloof r Jan '58

72.2.

CI Fmdmg scarcely anyone save Monsteur de Remusat who could understand htm (Junipers, south stde) M Talleyrand spruce and fir take the North Chalats, Aubeterre, snow-flakes at a hand's bteadth, and ram Trees hne the banks, mostly wtllows Kublat, Te Te of Ch'eng, called Ttmur, 1247, came ruther Forest thru tce mto emerald m

8

Tan (dawn, that ts)

lanx, corayana and berbens, after 2 stages A-tun-tzu a dtstance of one hundred It Pmus armandt, Talleyrand, Thters, tned to get sense mto pnnces 6 to the pubhc , 3%, and then one to the state (Stmon adrmts tt) 4 letters patent, 5 seals after the 4th year of Yung-lo 12th May, 1406, and a gold belt mlatd wtth flowers, pay for the troops holdmg passes , rations, chatr-coohes, horses - "To wnte of today," sd/ Mr Kennan, "ts not scholarslup" and, gomg toward slavery, have rmslatd farntly natnes 40 years tratler hfe, non-productive,

non-agncultural (Del Pelo Pardi came on curucoh) tho' av01dmg the squalor of taxes by cretms Imposed , Not attemptmg as Peabody, Warren G "Peabody Coke and Coal", said to unscrew the mscrutable "mflru" as measured by Renan "la betise humame " That one dollar's worth of ml sell at 5 dollars Talleyrand, Austerhtz, Mme Remusat "90 francs fee for obtammg gold for a one thousand franc note" (r8os) and Cambaceres A const1tut10n given to Italy, Xmas day of that year, Bonaparte's maximum "that mtelligent men can beheve" non-sectanan Marbo1s and then Mollien at the Treasury and then Gaudm, Mt Cems, S1mplon, Mme Remusat Wouldn't swallow It (I e that a great rmnd could seek glory m war ) 1806, 12th December "Studies at Jena will be continued," "Liberty for a small pnvueged class" a necessity Hottenguer, Neufhze, their Nessus

"Were m France" (Mme de Remusat) "wholly Ignorant of what was then passmg outs1de " Gaudm did not pay mterest on government credit

Nor drd

Kang H1 Mme d'Houdetot never perceived evil m anyone

"Sort ofIgnorance," said the old pnest toYeats m a railway tram, "Is spreadmg every day from the schools I" Obit I 93 3 , Tsung-Kuan, for Honour Bears hve on acorns and come raidmg our fields Bouffier, Elzeard has made the forest at Vergons under Kuanon's eye there Is oak-wood Sengper ga-mu, To rum we burn pme With white smoke, mornmg and evemng The hills here are blue-green With JUmper, the stream, as Achiloos there below us, here one man can hold the whole pass over this mountam, at Mont Segur the chief's cell you can enter It sideways only, TSO

1tr

IS here named

from the rope bndge, hemp rope , a reed rope , and they pay the land tax m buckwheat Food was m Tolosa, not chemical, and 111 Gubb10

L'Il Josephme

on the radio and a bull-fair

and they had sent the stone door-frames to Amenca not m war-time, antiques "No money, no sw1ss" quoted Wilson

(MeN )

KALON KAGATHON, and Marengo , Tlus aura will have, With red flash, the form of a diamond, or of cnmson, Apolloruus, Porphery, Anselm, Plotmus EN THEORIA 'ON NOUS EXEI had one vision only, and If the stars be but umcoms or took the stars for those annlopes HS'UAN TSUNG, 1 3 89 natus, pamted kittens, and Joey said, "are they for real" before pnm1t1ves m the Mellon Gallery, Waslungton "Should", satd H J , "for humaruty's credit fe1gn their extstence W1th the sun and moon on her shoulders, the star-discs sewn on her coat at LI Cluang, the snow range, a Wide meadow and the 2dto - 1mba's face (exorcist's) muy simpatico by the waters of Stone Drum, the two aces Mmt grows at the foot of the Snow Range the first moon 1s the nger's, Pheasant calls out of bracken Rossoru "cosl lo stato

" etcetera

Delcroix "che magmfica 1 " (presmtnbtie) he perceived lt The green spur, the wlute meadow "May thetr pond be full ,

The son have h.J.s father's arm and good hearmg ,

(noun graph upnght , adjectJ.ve s1deways) "Hls horse's mane flowmg

Hls body and soul are at peace "

CII Tlus I had from Kalupso

who had It from Hermes "eleven hterates and, I suppose, Dwight L Morrow" the body elected, residence reqwred, not as m England "A cargo of Iron" hed Pallas and as to why Penelope waited e Orgei hne 639 Leucothoe kemas 10se as an mcense bush, resistmg Apollo, Orchamus, Babylon And after soo years still offered that shrub to the sea-gull, Phaecians, she bemg of Cadmus hne The snow's lace washed here as sea-foam

�

But the lot of 'em, Yeats, Possum, Old Wyndham

had no ground to stand on Black shawls still worn for Demeter m Veruce, m my ttme, my young ttme OIOS TELESAI ERGON EROS TE

The cat talks f.LcX6l (mao) w1th a greek mfl.ectwn Barley 1s the marrow of men,

40

centess' m my tlme

an orzo At Procope, one franc fifteen for a luncheon and ten cent1mes t1p for the wa1ter No1 altn borghes1 could not go down mto the p1azza We thought we could control And that ye sad over hthe water under eyehds Wmkelmann noted the eyehds, Yeats two months on a sonnet of Ronsard's "Jacques Pere" on a s1gn near Le Portel, and belg1ans would pronounce 1t Eva has Improved that hne about Fre1he1t " 50 more years on The Changes" or 1s sa1d to have sa1d that he could have Swan broke h1s knee cap on landmg havmg scaled that

30

foot wall,

and mamtamed h1s sereruty, another chap hung all mght m the tra1l ropes and saw two other men fall Took the

Z

for the tall of the KatZe

v1de Fro bemus on relative Dummhe1t of pupil and teacher "The hbranes" (Ingnd) "have no Domvlle " Jan I955 as was natural "pseudos d' ouk

e1 gar pepneumenos"

seed barley w1th the sacnfice (Lacedaemon) But w1th Leucothoe's mmd m that mcense

all Babylon could not hold 1t down "for my b1tch eyes" m Ihon copper and wme hke a bear cub's m sunhght, thus Atalant the colour as atthwps the gloss probably omops as

lacquer m sunhght hahporphuros,

russet-gold m the arr, extant, not carmme, not flame, onXalko, le xaladmes ht by the torch-flare, and from the nature, the s1gn Small hons are there m benevolence to the left of San Marco AISSOUSIN, the spmts, Bereruce, a late constellation "Same books" sa1d Tcheou they ought to be brother-hke Crystalme, south slope for JUmper, Wud goose follows the sun-b1rd, m mountams , salt, copper, coral, dead words out of fash10n KAI ALOGA, nature APHANASTON, the pme needles glow as red w1re OU THELEI EAEAN EIS KOSMOU 73 0

they want to burst out of the uruverse amrus herb1das npas Antorunus ,

Juhan would not be worshipped "So truck the dead could not fall" Marcellmus "dead chap ahead of me Wlth rus head spht could not fall " xx:m,

6, and

there also

Assynos fines mgressus, Buut grananes, sueta annona, naturally labled "apostate" Quem mili1 febncula enpmt, Dom1tlan, mfaustus tned to buy peace W1th money

73 1

CIII gt obJeCtion to any honesty m the White House an M C from Cahfonua killed one of the walters at the W11lard 22nd Brooks thrashed Sumner m Camera Senatus "respectful of our own nghts and of others" for wh1ch decent VIew he was ousted Homestead versus kolschoz versus Babylon Rome no sense of qmddity m the sovre1gnty 1 e the power to Issue The slaves were red hernng, land not secure agamst Issuers Emerson, Agass1z, Alcot at Hawthorne's funeral names of the pnnc1pal bond-holders - persuade Spam to sell Cuba VIa Belmont, not VIa Sickles , land to all veterans Mommsen 160 acres, 3 3rd Congress "I see tts relation to one thmg, Hm sees Its relat10n to ten " Monetary hteracy, sans which a loss of freedom 1s consequent curucoh, canalesque and the people (mm) ate caelum renovabat, arumals dance, manes come 1 850

'56,

732

Protocol Jan I 8 3 I Belgmm neutral m

Trymg (T C P

perpetwty

) 50 years later to keep some

of the

non-mterest-bearmg etc m

ctrculatton

as currency Stlll market, no use to brokers France, after Talleyrand started Btsmarck no war after

one war m Europe 70, that was Ius aim '70

•

He sa1d No more after

Castrmr put Napoleon back on Ius Column

12th Apnl, Journal

des Debats,

183 1 that bttch Mme de Lteven that bttch Mme de Stael Bohvar dead, who else was there� Tolosa,

1919,

Gubbto, on pouva1t manger

"Europe " satd Ptcabta exhausted by the conquest of Alsace Lorraine T to Broghe Ap 9, ' 3 3 as

I recall tt there was no such thmg as pubhc optruon (Vtenna)

Metterruch destroyed Mana Theresa Maremma Hroos1a, "tranne nella casa del re"

:B Mussohm to some chap from Predappto not yet, so far as

I know,

wntten down

733

Lugubnous Knole, Capture of Warsaw Pans, at Palats Royal "where they are rather badly off for society" de Vaux talked of nothmg but bullfights not only 3 2 rmllwn subjects, but pretend to govern all Europe That he (the Archbtshop) had not qutte the grasp St Leu, Beauharnats, Tascher gtven to M's'lle Hortense by the Ctttzen Talleyrand "a sapphire, and a btt of the cross true cross, exhumed wtth Charlemagne's skeleton Mme de Genhs SIX patnttngs by me , frmts, msects, arumals Bismarck thought centrahzatton bitched France lvar Kreuger, accordmg to Lornmer's paper a titan, and more than, Edtshu added a zero to the number of Krauts murdered m

Poland

183 1, m New York State that debtors be not Impnsoned "Last supenor 0UT of his cabmet" John Quinn ref Lansmg's departure and at three o'clock m the rnommg my ex-partner

"

wuz sekkertary of State "

1 841 Ftllimore Wolverme bmlt m Pittsburg for a lake panty ' Telegraph btll 3 March 43

734

"Not Wlth a cold thmg" said Gnffith, "can't move 'em" ut delectet Mat Quay read greek m secret Mr Beecher earned some rusty cannon-balls mto rus pulpit that were allegedly from Bunker Hill, Boston and at Nara, a D 784 was an art show Hmdoo, greek, Persian

9Q years from Perry to Sow-face "the colossal concett of Amencans," satd Mr Gnffis , a D I9I5 Heaven made hearmg and seemg men have the rule cheu regent Hta caeca ratione agebat Absolutely drop tdea of putting Chase mto the Treasury "r4 ktlled," Stanton to Buchanan, "gready below former reports of a thousand" Present my Comphments to Miss Lane Btddle for conscnptlon even m Eighteen Fourteen A J to Buchanan unable to perceive that

U S

mterests

w11l be safer m other hands than her own from the Herrrutage Foretgn Mtmsters must dnve w1th 4 horses and a postillion

' St Petersburg 3 2

"I

cannot,

I

fear, w1th truth defend

73 5

the chastity of the Empress, Emperor trunks bnts weary of Constitution, The french are a smgular people Napoleon's taxes less than Yz now at Bergheim " Buchanan got a treaty out of the hRooshuns "worst the art of man" (speakmg of bank system) could devise, Enghsh mcome tax odious, has men to seven pence m the pound Vtc's character without blemish, London 1852 The Daliy Telegraph has been bought over and (rus "Inaugural") that men have sunk to consider the mere matenal value of the Uruon a grant from States of hm1ted powers nee Templum aedifi.cavit nee restitUit rem but not rus fault by a damn Sight Wmter m Pontus diStressmg but still at Sulmona the hon heads, Fedenco wrote of the Falcon and Ors1 "Anch'10 sono anncruta S1ractll.ana " Arab co1ns found m mounds m Sweden under Fortuna Raletgh noted that Genova's loans were not product1ve "all they have lefi 1s thetr usury" W odan nurustrat Vlrtutem Fnco, voluptatem,

Agelmund retgned

33

years

"quae a thure solebant sacnficus" that was m Tuscany In thts provmce IS Roma, Brennus came here for the wme, hkmg Its quahty Lupus comes ttmens, Rothar ananae haeres10s ­ edtct1 prologo dope already m use "Puteum de testicuhs tmpleam clencorum" dlXlt Alchis would fill full a well w1th pnests' balls, heretics', naturally Das Le1hkap1tal And there ts, of course, the Mensdorf letter that has had (1958) no publlClty

737

CIV Na Kh.t talk made out o f wmd noise,

And North Klu, not to be heard armd 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 1dea of betraymg Mihailovltch The m of the room became heavy so that young S Res1gned from the F 0 and "went mto the C1ty" ­ Banners they took after Lepanto but now obtam "control of the oudets" to keep down pnnted quahty

Lmg

��

by hng only senuna

Flames withered, the wmd blew confus10n

And a $ to look hke a franc, the franc worth a centesimo

I

fr I 5

Procope, Dondo at the Tabann,

At Mouhn Rouge no adnuttance w1thout a starched collar nor With a cap, at the Tabann Degas' eye at La Concorde, sphntered hght, Seurat' s, or that of Pitagora DISraeh, Wolff Henry (double ff)

bitdung England and by-passmg Parhament, In metal cyhnders, swallowed by camels who are then killed after passmg the frontxer de l'audace, PANURGIA, & herom m

Xreia, to diSSociate demand from the need

"Good chaps" saxd Schm.1dt "damn shame we have to fight 'em " Hate xs not born m the trenches nor among 2nd heutenants Old Rocke (with an -e termxnal not the botarust) learned AbySSlrua, Sammy's nevvy got the gold out of the palace bed-room Londres' books neglected, the French did not leam them and there iS no glow such as of pme-needles burmng Without 2muan

'bpo no reahty

Wmd over snow-slope

agxtante

nos otros calescunus Agamst Jade calescunus, and the Jade weathers dust-sWU"l Murare, tradurre Pope Nxcolo had those two pass10ns Gamed for the latm tongue (Valla) lattrutas

739

Bassxruo left greek tags m his margms mouldmg the cadence Uncle Carlo purged the mouth of that nver the Rubicon with russet sails (Wxeland) at the landmg A hck here, a hck 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 wxld-cat, Pitonessa The small breasts snow-soft over tripod under the cloud the three voices

(

And stopped m lucxd mtervals) the diggmg of metals,

Once gold was by ants out of burrows

pao three

not

•

Tlus IS not treasure Can you tell pao three from pao four, a wxld cat

d.a radxce torbtda xs no clanty

740

And who try to use the nund for the senses dnve screws wtth a hammer

maalesh Adolf funous from percepnon But there 1s a blmdness that comes from mstde ­ they try to explam themselves out of nullity "Beg the gendeman to go home AT ONCE say I wtll call on hlm " THAT ts pohteness And the cap for a forester showmg nuance 1910 Pears' soap for lamas Les D ouze unconsctous of Ferdie, Among medtcos Ambrmse Pare before Zeus, stx bluejays before hlm THEMIS against leagues of pnnces Said Yo-Yo "What part ob yu tz deh poEM • •" of the V1Ctnage, by hls peers And to ratse up gutlds m

ttme of the moon longs

mttred by consecratiOn of hght "Wash yu feet '

' tread strange 1an

"

Lwgt m h111 paths chews wheat at sunnse, that gram, hls commuruon And tf the stars be but urucoms, hght for lasso Yseult ts dead, and Walter,

74 1

and Ford1e, fam1hares "And how my olde fnend - eh - eh HOWells • can "etcetera Remy's word was "m1les1cnnes" Wllham's monoceros, Vlde IDS book plate The productwn IS the beloved And Gladstone took a httle packet of tea to Miss What's-her-name, Palmerston's fancy but dld not sell .England for four m1lhon qmd to

(deleted

Suez Canal shares Sa1d Holl1s (Chnstopher) Reg1Us

(deleted) Professorships

for fals1ficat10n and Coke dtsappeared from curncula Von Bulow got news from the agencres France betrayed Talleyrand, "Ptckm' dalSles" "He (Wells) won't have an op1n1on " Thus Orage respected belatedly "N1cht Boshe1t" sa1d Marghenta Regma, or one of 'em, "D UMMhe1t" M1rabeau had 1t worse, Ov1d much worse m Pontus "No sooner m Goa than they started uprooting sp1ce trees, Intorcetta' s portra1t 1s sttll there m S1cuy Wlth an unreadable text on his fan

74 2

Hence Webster, Voltaire and Leibmtz by phyllotn.Is m

leaf-gram

But m Veruce more affirmations of mdividual men From Selvo to Franchetti, than any elsewhere Po hke a map beneath us "Very cleverly dramed" said the pnsoner' s escort Larranaga saw fashiOn an element No science Without clear definitions and there ts a style of the penod "My Chauncey Alcot If you'll bee my Molly

0 1" Moral scruple unknown to financiers at THAT ttme a common custom m busmess Lukie Iorudes wtll do, a greek will ANYTHING

till he gt.ts Twenty Thousand (mearung qUid sterhng) after that, he sees that It pays to be honest Pulchra documenta Bulow from agencies "don't waste time gettmg mto papers" Get the agencies and to summanze

743

Gold was m control of the Pontrfex, standard at Byzance and El Melek until 1204 kalos kagathos Del Mar Cites 12 cases of tickets as from Iron m Spartan comage In splendour of blue-Jays Cythera P AGGKALA Mond la.lled the Enghsh ReVIew and Ford went to Pans (an mterval) Village festrval on the Quatorze Bnts patd out of french pocket one whole mstallment , Alex, the debts of hts soldrers And as for what happened after the hng lost exclusivity even Del Mar gasps wrth astomshment McNarr Wrlson, Larranaga, or Tremame at 2 m the mornmg "Fer some gawd damn fool reason no more sense than p1ll box hats where m1ght be Gruns­ boroughs,"

refemng to prescntt1h1le or What a government usefully COULD do False rmddles serve ne1ther commerce nor the NOOS m act1v1ty

That fine old word (Sttnk Saunders' word) "an Independence"

;

744

� y�

Homestead versus kolschoz, advice to farms, not control tessera, Monreale, Topaz, God can sit on For

30

years nothmg of mterest occurred m that country

but the Burgomeister's Schwager nustrusted Fetzen PapiLr Where deer's feet make dust m shadow at wood's edge curet cogitare perenrua foung houang h 1 varmsh and sill.. IS their tnbute Iu's weights are sttll m the treasury

74 5

cv Feb

1956

Is th.J.s a d1vagat1on Talleyrand saved Europe for a century France betrayed Talleyrand, Germany, B1smarck And Muss saved, rem salvav1t, m Spam 1l salvabue serruna motuum From Sulmona the hon-fountmust be Sulmona, OV1cho's, Fedenco noted the hawk form and no one has yet translated "Il Marescalco", (Cesena, Zezena de be"e colonne) Mozart ob1t aetat 35, Chnstlan's hat and gloves so clearly pamted (Herbtet) the comdor Yz an mch w1de, must be somewhere "moyens d'eXlstence mconnus " Anselm "Monolog10n" scnps1t, 1o63 "non spatlo, sed sap1ent1a" not m space but m knowmg non pares, not equal m digruty

rerum naturas Do

not

ust. thur mathematic� to thml. ¥- tth

Lanfranct tun u cr unt saptenttam, were alarmt.d b'r L·mfranc's horsc-�enst. Passed that day d ra\\ mg

1

gra�shopper

old Galhg ht. r, and dttars. The ruined orchard�. tree� rottmg. Empty frame� at Limone. And for a little magnanimity some,vhcre, And to know the share from the charge (scala altrui) God's eye art 'ou, do not surrender perception. And in thy mind beauty, 0 Artemis Daphne afoot in vain speed. When the Syrian onyx is broken. Out of dark, thou, Father Helios, leadest, but the mind as Ixion, unstill, ever turning.

79 0

CXIV " Pas meme Freron h·us personn But the beauty 1s not the madness

79 5

Tho' my errors and "Wrecb lte about

me

And I am not a derm�od, I carmot mak.e rt cohere Iflo• e be not m the houst.. there rs nothmg The vmce of fanune unheard How came beautv agamst tlm bhckne%, T"W rce be1uty under the clm�To be saved by sqmrrels and blueJ' Usury

uc�clu:A.

the serpent

ue�chel.. who\e n1nK 1s kno\\ n tht

Here 1s the core of e\ 11, the burnmg hell

\\

tthout let-up,

The canker corruptmg all thmg�, F1fim the worm, Syphths of the State, of all kmgdmm Wart of the common-w