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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6833f05 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +* text=auto +*.txt text +*.md text diff --git a/23538-0.txt b/23538-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8b1f56b --- /dev/null +++ b/23538-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1057 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, by Ezra Pound + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Hugh Selwyn Mauberley + +Author: Ezra Pound + +Release Date: November 18, 2007 [EBook #23538] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY *** + + + + +Produced by Lewis Jones + + + + +Pound, Ezra (1920) _Hugh Selwyn Mauberley_ + + + +Hugh Selwyn +Mauberley + +BY + +E. P. + + + + +THE OVID PRESS +1920 + + + +"VOCAT ÆSTUS IN UMBRAM" + _Nemesianus Ec. IV._ + + + +H. S. Mauberley + +(LIFE AND CONTACTS) + +Transcriber's note: Ezra Pound’s _Hugh Selwyn Mauberley_ +contains accents, diphthongs and Greek characters. Facsimile +images of the poems as originally published are freely available +online from the Internet Archive. Please use these images to +check for any errors or inadequacies in this electronic text. + + + _MAUBERLEY_ + CONTENTS + Part I. + ________ + +_Ode pour l'élection de son sepulcher_ +II. +III. +IV. +V. +_Yeux Glauques_ +_"Siena mi fe', disfecemi Maremma"_ +_Brennbaum_ +_Mr. Nixon_ +X. +XI. +XII. + + ____________ + + ENVOI + 1919 + ____________ + + Part II. + 1920 + (Mauberley) + +I. +II. +III. _"The age demanded"_ +IV. +V. _Medallion_ + + + + +E.P. +ODE POUR SELECTION DE SON SEPULCHRE + +FOR three years, out of key with his time, +He strove to resuscitate the dead art +Of poetry; to maintain "the sublime" +In the old sense. Wrong from the start-- + +No hardly, but, seeing he had been born +In a half savage country, out of date; +Bent resolutely on wringing lilies from the acorn; +Capaneus; trout for factitious bait; + +_ἴδμεν γάρ τοι πάν πάνθ', όσ' ένι Τροίη_ +Caught in the unstopped ear; +Giving the rocks small lee-way +The chopped seas held him, therefore, that year. + +His true Penelope was Flaubert, +He fished by obstinate isles; +Observed the elegance of Circe's hair +Rather than the mottoes on sun-dials. + +Unaffected by "the march of events," +He passed from men's memory in _l'an trentiesme +De son eage_; the case presents +No adjunct to the Muses' diadem. + + +II. + +THE age demanded an image +Of its accelerated grimace, +Something for the modern stage, +Not, at any rate, an Attic grace; + +Not, not certainly, the obscure reveries +Of the inward gaze; +Better mendacities +Than the classics in paraphrase! + +The "age demanded" chiefly a mould in plaster, +Made with no loss of time, +A prose kinema, not, not assuredly, alabaster +Or the "sculpture" of rhyme. + + +III. + +THE tea-rose tea-gown, etc. +Supplants the mousseline of Cos, +The pianola "replaces" +Sappho's barbitos. + +Christ follows Dionysus, +Phallic and ambrosial +Made way for macerations; +Caliban casts out Ariel. + +All things are a flowing, +Sage Heracleitus says; +But a tawdry cheapness +Shall reign throughout our days. + +Even the Christian beauty +Defects--after Samothrace; +We see _το καλόν_ +Decreed in the market place. + +Faun's flesh is not to us, +Nor the saint's vision. +We have the press for wafer; +Franchise for circumcision. + +All men, in law, are equals. +Free of Peisistratus, +We choose a knave or an eunuch +To rule over us. + +O bright Apollo, +_τίν' άνδρα, τίν' ήρωα, τίνα θεον_, +What god, man, or hero +Shall I place a tin wreath upon! + + +IV. + +THESE fought, in any case, +and some believing, pro domo, in any case . . +Some quick to arm, +some for adventure, +some from fear of weakness, +some from fear of censure, +some for love of slaughter, in imagination, +learning later . . . + +some in fear, learning love of slaughter; +Died some "pro patria, non dulce non et decor". . + +walked eye-deep in hell +believing in old men's lies, then unbelieving +came home, home to a lie, +home to many deceits, +home to old lies and new infamy; + +usury age-old and age-thick +and liars in public places. + +Daring as never before, wastage as never before. +Young blood and high blood, +Fair cheeks, and fine bodies; + +fortitude as never before + +frankness as never before, +disillusions as never told in the old days, +hysterias, trench confessions, +laughter out of dead bellies. + + +V. + +THERE died a myriad, +And of the best, among them, +For an old bitch gone in the teeth, +For a botched civilization, + +Charm, smiling at the good mouth, +Quick eyes gone under earth's lid, + +For two gross of broken statues, +For a few thousand battered books. + + +YEUX GLAUQUES + +GLADSTONE was still respected, +When John Ruskin produced +"Kings Treasuries"; Swinburne +And Rossetti still abused. + +Fœtid Buchanan lifted up his voice +When that faun's head of hers +Became a pastime for +Painters and adulterers. + +The Burne-Jones cartons +Have preserved her eyes; +Still, at the Tate, they teach +Cophetua to rhapsodize; + +Thin like brook-water, +With a vacant gaze. +The English Rubaiyat was still-born +In those days. + +The thin, clear gaze, the same +Still darts out faun-like from the half-ruin'd fac +Questing and passive .... +"Ah, poor Jenny's case"... + +Bewildered that a world +Shows no surprise +At her last maquero's +Adulteries. + + +"SIENA MI FE', DISFECEMI MAREMMA" + +AMONG the pickled foetuses and bottled bones, +Engaged in perfecting the catalogue, +I found the last scion of the +Senatorial families of Strasbourg, Monsieur Verog. + +For two hours he talked of Gallifet; +Of Dowson; of the Rhymers' Club; +Told me how Johnson (Lionel) died +By falling from a high stool in a pub . . . + +But showed no trace of alcohol +At the autopsy, privately performed-- +Tissue preserved--the pure mind +Arose toward Newman as the whiskey warmed. + +Dowson found harlots cheaper than hotels; +Headlam for uplift; Image impartially imbued +With raptures for Bacchus, Terpsichore and the Church. +So spoke the author of "The Dorian Mood", + +M. Verog, out of step with the decade, +Detached from his contemporaries, +Neglected by the young, +Because of these reveries. + + +BRENNBAUM. + +THE sky-like limpid eyes, +The circular infant's face, +The stiffness from spats to collar +Never relaxing into grace; + +The heavy memories of Horeb, Sinai and the forty years, +Showed only when the daylight fell +Level across the face +Of Brennbaum "The Impeccable". + + +MR. NIXON + +IN the cream gilded cabin of his steam yacht +Mr. Nixon advised me kindly, to advance with fewer +Dangers of delay. "Consider + "Carefully the reviewer. + +"I was as poor as you are; +"When I began I got, of course, +"Advance on royalties, fifty at first", said Mr. Nixon, +"Follow me, and take a column, +"Even if you have to work free. + +"Butter reviewers. From fifty to three hundred +"I rose in eighteen months; +"The hardest nut I had to crack +"Was Dr. Dundas. + +"I never mentioned a man but with the view +"Of selling my own works. +"The tip's a good one, as for literature +"It gives no man a sinecure." + +And no one knows, at sight a masterpiece. +And give up verse, my boy, +There's nothing in it. + + * * * + +Likewise a friend of Bloughram's once advised me: +Don't kick against the pricks, +Accept opinion. The "Nineties" tried your game +And died, there's nothing in it. + + +X. + +BENEATH the sagging roof +The stylist has taken shelter, +Unpaid, uncelebrated, +At last from the world's welter + +Nature receives him, +With a placid and uneducated mistress +He exercises his talents +And the soil meets his distress. + +The haven from sophistications and contentions +Leaks through its thatch; +He offers succulent cooking; +The door has a creaking latch. + + +XI. + +"CONSERVATRIX of Milésien" +Habits of mind and feeling, +Possibly. But in Ealing +With the most bank-clerkly of Englishmen? + +No, "Milésien" is an exaggeration. +No instinct has survived in her +Older than those her grandmother +Told her would fit her station. + + +XII. + +"DAPHNE with her thighs in bark +Stretches toward me her leafy hands",-- +Subjectively. In the stuffed-satin drawing-room +I await The Lady Valentine's commands, + +Knowing my coat has never been +Of precisely the fashion +To stimulate, in her, +A durable passion; + +Doubtful, somewhat, of the value +Of well-gowned approbation +Of literary effort, +But never of The Lady Valentine's vocation: + +Poetry, her border of ideas, +The edge, uncertain, but a means of blending +With other strata +Where the lower and higher have ending; + +A hook to catch the Lady Jane's attention, +A modulation toward the theatre, +Also, in the case of revolution, +A possible friend and comforter. + + * * * + +Conduct, on the other hand, the soul +"Which the highest cultures have nourished" +To Fleet St. where +Dr. Johnson flourished; + +Beside this thoroughfare +The sale of half-hose has +Long since superseded the cultivation +Of Pierian roses. + + +ENVOI (1919) + +GO, dumb-born book, +Tell her that sang me once that song of Lawes; +Hadst thou but song +As thou hast subjects known, +Then were there cause in thee that should condone +Even my faults that heavy upon me lie +And build her glories their longevity. + +Tell her that sheds +Such treasure in the air, +Recking naught else but that her graces give +Life to the moment, +I would bid them live +As roses might, in magic amber laid, +Red overwrought with orange and all made +One substance and one colour +Braving time. + +Tell her that goes +With song upon her lips +But sings not out the song, nor knows +The maker of it, some other mouth, +May be as fair as hers, +Might, in new ages, gain her worshippers, +When our two dusts with Waller's shall be laid, +Siftings on siftings in oblivion, +Till change hath broken down +All things save Beauty alone. + + +1920 + +(MAUBERLEY) + + I. + +TURNED from the "eau-forte +Par Jaquemart" +To the strait head +Of Mcssalina: + +"His true Penelope +Was Flaubert", +And his tool +The engraver's + +Firmness, +Not the full smile, +His art, but an art +In profile; + +Colourless +Pier Francesca, +Pisanello lacking the skill +To forge Achaia. + + II. + + _"Qu'est ce qu'ils savent de l'amour, et + gu'est ce qu'ils peuvent comprendre? + S'ils ne comprennent pas la poèsie, + s'ils ne sentent pas la musique, qu'est ce + qu'ils peuvent comprendre de cette pas- + sion en comparaison avec laquelle la rose + est grossière et le parfum des violettes un + tonnerre?"_ CAID ALI + +FOR three years, diabolus in the scale, +He drank ambrosia, +All passes, ANANGKE prevails, +Came end, at last, to that Arcadia. + +He had moved amid her phantasmagoria, +Amid her galaxies, +NUKTIS AGALMA + +Drifted....drifted precipitate, +Asking time to be rid of.... +Of his bewilderment; to designate +His new found orchid.... + +To be certain....certain... +(Amid aerial flowers)..time for arrangements-- +Drifted on +To the final estrangement; + +Unable in the supervening blankness +To sift TO AGATHON from the chaff +Until he found his seive... +Ultimately, his seismograph: + +--Given, that is, his urge +To convey the relation +Of eye-lid and cheek-bone +By verbal manifestation; + +To present the series +Of curious heads in medallion-- + +He had passed, inconscient, full gaze, +The wide-banded irises +And botticellian sprays implied +In their diastasis; + +Which anæsthesis, noted a year late, +And weighed, revealed his great affect, +(Orchid), mandate +Of Eros, a retrospect. + + . . . + +Mouths biting empty air, +The still stone dogs, +Caught in metamorphosis were, +Left him as epilogues. + + +"THE AGE DEMANDED" + +VIDE POEM II. + +FOR this agility chance found +Him of all men, unfit +As the red-beaked steeds of +The Cytheræan for a chain-bit. + +The glow of porcelain +Brought no reforming sense +To his perception +Of the social inconsequence. + +Thus, if her colour +Came against his gaze, +Tempered as if +It were through a perfect glaze + +He made no immediate application +Of this to relation of the state +To the individual, the month was more temperate +Because this beauty had been + ...... + The coral isle, the lion-coloured sand + Burst in upon the porcelain revery: + Impetuous troubling + Of his imagery. + ...... + +Mildness, amid the neo-Neitzschean clatter, +His sense of graduations, +Quite out of place amid +Resistance to current exacerbations + +Invitation, mere invitation to perceptivity +Gradually led him to the isolation +Which these presents place +Under a more tolerant, perhaps, examination. + +By constant elimination +The manifest universe +Yielded an armour +Against utter consternation, + +A Minoan undulation, +Seen, we admit, amid ambrosial circumstances +Strengthened him against +The discouraging doctrine of chances + +And his desire for survival, +Faint in the most strenuous moods, +Became an Olympian _apathein_ +In the presence of selected perceptions. + +A pale gold, in the aforesaid pattern, +The unexpected palms +Destroying, certainly, the artist's urge, +Left him delighted with the imaginary +Audition of the phantasmal sea-surge, + +Incapable of the least utterance or composition, +Emendation, conservation of the "better tradition", +Refinement of medium, elimination of superfluities, +August attraction or concentration. + +Nothing in brief, but maudlin confession +Irresponse to human aggression, +Amid the precipitation, down-float +Of insubstantial manna +Lifting the faint susurrus +Of his subjective hosannah. + +Ultimate affronts to human redundancies; + +Non-esteem of self-styled "his betters" +Leading, as he well knew, +To his final +Exclusion from the world of letters. + + + IV. + +SCATTERED Moluccas +Not knowing, day to day, +The first day's end, in the next noon; +The placid water +Unbroken by the Simoon; + +Thick foliage +Placid beneath warm suns, +Tawn fore-shores +Washed in the cobalt of oblivions; + +Or through dawn-mist +The grey and rose +Of the juridical +Flamingoes; + +A consciousness disjunct, +Being but this overblotted +Series +Of intermittences; + +Coracle of Pacific voyages, +The unforecasted beach: +Then on an oar +Read this: + +"I was +And I no more exist; +Here drifted +An hedonist." + + +MEDALLION + +LUINI in porcelain! +The grand piano +Utters a profane +Protest with her clear soprano. + +The sleek head emerges +From the gold-yellow frock +As Anadyomene in the opening +Pages of Reinach. + +Honey-red, closing the face-oval +A basket-work of braids which seem as if they were +Spun in King Minos' hall +From metal, or intractable amber; + +The face-oval beneath the glaze, +Bright in its suave bounding-line, as +Beneath half-watt rays +The eyes turn topaz. + + +THIS EDITION OF 200 COPIES IS THE THIRD BOOK + OF THE OVID PRESS: WAS PRINTED BY JOHN + RODKER: AND COMPLETED APRIL + 23RD. 1920 + +OF THIS EDITION:-- + +15 Copies on Japan Vellum numbered 1-15 & not for sale. +20 Signed copies numbered 16-35 +165 Unsigned copies numbered 36-200 + +The initials & colophon by E. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Hugh Selwyn Mauberley + +Author: Ezra Pound + +Release Date: November 18, 2007 [EBook #23538] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY *** + + + + +Produced by Lewis Jones + + + + +Pound, Ezra (1920) _Hugh Selwyn Mauberley_ + + + +Hugh Selwyn +Mauberley + +BY + +E. P. + + + + +THE OVID PRESS +1920 + + + +"VOCAT STUS IN UMBRAM" + _Nemesianus Ec. IV._ + + + +H. S. Mauberley + +(LIFE AND CONTACTS) + +Transcriber's note: Ezra Pound's _Hugh Selwyn Mauberley_ +contains accents, diphthongs and Greek characters. Facsimile +images of the poems as originally published are freely available +online from the Internet Archive. Please use these images to +check for any errors or inadequacies in this electronic text. + + + _MAUBERLEY_ + CONTENTS + Part I. + ________ + +_Ode pour l'lection de son sepulcher_ +II. +III. +IV. +V. +_Yeux Glauques_ +_"Siena mi fe', disfecemi Maremma"_ +_Brennbaum_ +_Mr. Nixon_ +X. +XI. +XII. + + ____________ + + ENVOI + 1919 + ____________ + + Part II. + 1920 + (Mauberley) + +I. +II. +III. _"The age demanded"_ +IV. +V. _Medallion_ + + + + +E.P. +ODE POUR SELECTION DE SON SEPULCHRE + +FOR three years, out of key with his time, +He strove to resuscitate the dead art +Of poetry; to maintain "the sublime" +In the old sense. Wrong from the start-- + +No hardly, but, seeing he had been born +In a half savage country, out of date; +Bent resolutely on wringing lilies from the acorn; +Capaneus; trout for factitious bait; + +_{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH PSILI AND OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER DELTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER GAMMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH TONOS~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER PI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH TONOS~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER PI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH TONOS~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER THETA~}', {~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON WITH TONOS~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA~}' {~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON WITH TONOS~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~} {~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH TONOS~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA~}_ +Caught in the unstopped ear; +Giving the rocks small lee-way +The chopped seas held him, therefore, that year. + +His true Penelope was Flaubert, +He fished by obstinate isles; +Observed the elegance of Circe's hair +Rather than the mottoes on sun-dials. + +Unaffected by "the march of events," +He passed from men's memory in _l'an trentiesme +De son eage_; the case presents +No adjunct to the Muses' diadem. + + +II. + +THE age demanded an image +Of its accelerated grimace, +Something for the modern stage, +Not, at any rate, an Attic grace; + +Not, not certainly, the obscure reveries +Of the inward gaze; +Better mendacities +Than the classics in paraphrase! + +The "age demanded" chiefly a mould in plaster, +Made with no loss of time, +A prose kinema, not, not assuredly, alabaster +Or the "sculpture" of rhyme. + + +III. + +THE tea-rose tea-gown, etc. +Supplants the mousseline of Cos, +The pianola "replaces" +Sappho's barbitos. + +Christ follows Dionysus, +Phallic and ambrosial +Made way for macerations; +Caliban casts out Ariel. + +All things are a flowing, +Sage Heracleitus says; +But a tawdry cheapness +Shall reign throughout our days. + +Even the Christian beauty +Defects--after Samothrace; +We see _{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON WITH TONOS~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}_ +Decreed in the market place. + +Faun's flesh is not to us, +Nor the saint's vision. +We have the press for wafer; +Franchise for circumcision. + +All men, in law, are equals. +Free of Peisistratus, +We choose a knave or an eunuch +To rule over us. + +O bright Apollo, +_{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH TONOS~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}' {~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH TONOS~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER DELTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}, {~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH TONOS~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}' {~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA WITH TONOS~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}, {~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH TONOS~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER THETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}_, +What god, man, or hero +Shall I place a tin wreath upon! + + +IV. + +THESE fought, in any case, +and some believing, pro domo, in any case . . +Some quick to arm, +some for adventure, +some from fear of weakness, +some from fear of censure, +some for love of slaughter, in imagination, +learning later . . . + +some in fear, learning love of slaughter; +Died some "pro patria, non dulce non et decor". . + +walked eye-deep in hell +believing in old men's lies, then unbelieving +came home, home to a lie, +home to many deceits, +home to old lies and new infamy; + +usury age-old and age-thick +and liars in public places. + +Daring as never before, wastage as never before. +Young blood and high blood, +Fair cheeks, and fine bodies; + +fortitude as never before + +frankness as never before, +disillusions as never told in the old days, +hysterias, trench confessions, +laughter out of dead bellies. + + +V. + +THERE died a myriad, +And of the best, among them, +For an old bitch gone in the teeth, +For a botched civilization, + +Charm, smiling at the good mouth, +Quick eyes gone under earth's lid, + +For two gross of broken statues, +For a few thousand battered books. + + +YEUX GLAUQUES + +GLADSTONE was still respected, +When John Ruskin produced +"Kings Treasuries"; Swinburne +And Rossetti still abused. + +Foetid Buchanan lifted up his voice +When that faun's head of hers +Became a pastime for +Painters and adulterers. + +The Burne-Jones cartons +Have preserved her eyes; +Still, at the Tate, they teach +Cophetua to rhapsodize; + +Thin like brook-water, +With a vacant gaze. +The English Rubaiyat was still-born +In those days. + +The thin, clear gaze, the same +Still darts out faun-like from the half-ruin'd fac +Questing and passive .... +"Ah, poor Jenny's case"... + +Bewildered that a world +Shows no surprise +At her last maquero's +Adulteries. + + +"SIENA MI FE', DISFECEMI MAREMMA" + +AMONG the pickled foetuses and bottled bones, +Engaged in perfecting the catalogue, +I found the last scion of the +Senatorial families of Strasbourg, Monsieur Verog. + +For two hours he talked of Gallifet; +Of Dowson; of the Rhymers' Club; +Told me how Johnson (Lionel) died +By falling from a high stool in a pub . . . + +But showed no trace of alcohol +At the autopsy, privately performed-- +Tissue preserved--the pure mind +Arose toward Newman as the whiskey warmed. + +Dowson found harlots cheaper than hotels; +Headlam for uplift; Image impartially imbued +With raptures for Bacchus, Terpsichore and the Church. +So spoke the author of "The Dorian Mood", + +M. Verog, out of step with the decade, +Detached from his contemporaries, +Neglected by the young, +Because of these reveries. + + +BRENNBAUM. + +THE sky-like limpid eyes, +The circular infant's face, +The stiffness from spats to collar +Never relaxing into grace; + +The heavy memories of Horeb, Sinai and the forty years, +Showed only when the daylight fell +Level across the face +Of Brennbaum "The Impeccable". + + +MR. NIXON + +IN the cream gilded cabin of his steam yacht +Mr. Nixon advised me kindly, to advance with fewer +Dangers of delay. "Consider + "Carefully the reviewer. + +"I was as poor as you are; +"When I began I got, of course, +"Advance on royalties, fifty at first", said Mr. Nixon, +"Follow me, and take a column, +"Even if you have to work free. + +"Butter reviewers. From fifty to three hundred +"I rose in eighteen months; +"The hardest nut I had to crack +"Was Dr. Dundas. + +"I never mentioned a man but with the view +"Of selling my own works. +"The tip's a good one, as for literature +"It gives no man a sinecure." + +And no one knows, at sight a masterpiece. +And give up verse, my boy, +There's nothing in it. + + * * * + +Likewise a friend of Bloughram's once advised me: +Don't kick against the pricks, +Accept opinion. The "Nineties" tried your game +And died, there's nothing in it. + + +X. + +BENEATH the sagging roof +The stylist has taken shelter, +Unpaid, uncelebrated, +At last from the world's welter + +Nature receives him, +With a placid and uneducated mistress +He exercises his talents +And the soil meets his distress. + +The haven from sophistications and contentions +Leaks through its thatch; +He offers succulent cooking; +The door has a creaking latch. + + +XI. + +"CONSERVATRIX of Milsien" +Habits of mind and feeling, +Possibly. But in Ealing +With the most bank-clerkly of Englishmen? + +No, "Milsien" is an exaggeration. +No instinct has survived in her +Older than those her grandmother +Told her would fit her station. + + +XII. + +"DAPHNE with her thighs in bark +Stretches toward me her leafy hands",-- +Subjectively. In the stuffed-satin drawing-room +I await The Lady Valentine's commands, + +Knowing my coat has never been +Of precisely the fashion +To stimulate, in her, +A durable passion; + +Doubtful, somewhat, of the value +Of well-gowned approbation +Of literary effort, +But never of The Lady Valentine's vocation: + +Poetry, her border of ideas, +The edge, uncertain, but a means of blending +With other strata +Where the lower and higher have ending; + +A hook to catch the Lady Jane's attention, +A modulation toward the theatre, +Also, in the case of revolution, +A possible friend and comforter. + + * * * + +Conduct, on the other hand, the soul +"Which the highest cultures have nourished" +To Fleet St. where +Dr. Johnson flourished; + +Beside this thoroughfare +The sale of half-hose has +Long since superseded the cultivation +Of Pierian roses. + + +ENVOI (1919) + +GO, dumb-born book, +Tell her that sang me once that song of Lawes; +Hadst thou but song +As thou hast subjects known, +Then were there cause in thee that should condone +Even my faults that heavy upon me lie +And build her glories their longevity. + +Tell her that sheds +Such treasure in the air, +Recking naught else but that her graces give +Life to the moment, +I would bid them live +As roses might, in magic amber laid, +Red overwrought with orange and all made +One substance and one colour +Braving time. + +Tell her that goes +With song upon her lips +But sings not out the song, nor knows +The maker of it, some other mouth, +May be as fair as hers, +Might, in new ages, gain her worshippers, +When our two dusts with Waller's shall be laid, +Siftings on siftings in oblivion, +Till change hath broken down +All things save Beauty alone. + + +1920 + +(MAUBERLEY) + + I. + +TURNED from the "eau-forte +Par Jaquemart" +To the strait head +Of Mcssalina: + +"His true Penelope +Was Flaubert", +And his tool +The engraver's + +Firmness, +Not the full smile, +His art, but an art +In profile; + +Colourless +Pier Francesca, +Pisanello lacking the skill +To forge Achaia. + + II. + + _"Qu'est ce qu'ils savent de l'amour, et + gu'est ce qu'ils peuvent comprendre? + S'ils ne comprennent pas la posie, + s'ils ne sentent pas la musique, qu'est ce + qu'ils peuvent comprendre de cette pas- + sion en comparaison avec laquelle la rose + est grossire et le parfum des violettes un + tonnerre?"_ CAID ALI + +FOR three years, diabolus in the scale, +He drank ambrosia, +All passes, ANANGKE prevails, +Came end, at last, to that Arcadia. + +He had moved amid her phantasmagoria, +Amid her galaxies, +NUKTIS AGALMA + +Drifted....drifted precipitate, +Asking time to be rid of.... +Of his bewilderment; to designate +His new found orchid.... + +To be certain....certain... +(Amid aerial flowers)..time for arrangements-- +Drifted on +To the final estrangement; + +Unable in the supervening blankness +To sift TO AGATHON from the chaff +Until he found his seive... +Ultimately, his seismograph: + +--Given, that is, his urge +To convey the relation +Of eye-lid and cheek-bone +By verbal manifestation; + +To present the series +Of curious heads in medallion-- + +He had passed, inconscient, full gaze, +The wide-banded irises +And botticellian sprays implied +In their diastasis; + +Which ansthesis, noted a year late, +And weighed, revealed his great affect, +(Orchid), mandate +Of Eros, a retrospect. + + . . . + +Mouths biting empty air, +The still stone dogs, +Caught in metamorphosis were, +Left him as epilogues. + + +"THE AGE DEMANDED" + +VIDE POEM II. + +FOR this agility chance found +Him of all men, unfit +As the red-beaked steeds of +The Cytheran for a chain-bit. + +The glow of porcelain +Brought no reforming sense +To his perception +Of the social inconsequence. + +Thus, if her colour +Came against his gaze, +Tempered as if +It were through a perfect glaze + +He made no immediate application +Of this to relation of the state +To the individual, the month was more temperate +Because this beauty had been + ...... + The coral isle, the lion-coloured sand + Burst in upon the porcelain revery: + Impetuous troubling + Of his imagery. + ...... + +Mildness, amid the neo-Neitzschean clatter, +His sense of graduations, +Quite out of place amid +Resistance to current exacerbations + +Invitation, mere invitation to perceptivity +Gradually led him to the isolation +Which these presents place +Under a more tolerant, perhaps, examination. + +By constant elimination +The manifest universe +Yielded an armour +Against utter consternation, + +A Minoan undulation, +Seen, we admit, amid ambrosial circumstances +Strengthened him against +The discouraging doctrine of chances + +And his desire for survival, +Faint in the most strenuous moods, +Became an Olympian _apathein_ +In the presence of selected perceptions. + +A pale gold, in the aforesaid pattern, +The unexpected palms +Destroying, certainly, the artist's urge, +Left him delighted with the imaginary +Audition of the phantasmal sea-surge, + +Incapable of the least utterance or composition, +Emendation, conservation of the "better tradition", +Refinement of medium, elimination of superfluities, +August attraction or concentration. + +Nothing in brief, but maudlin confession +Irresponse to human aggression, +Amid the precipitation, down-float +Of insubstantial manna +Lifting the faint susurrus +Of his subjective hosannah. + +Ultimate affronts to human redundancies; + +Non-esteem of self-styled "his betters" +Leading, as he well knew, +To his final +Exclusion from the world of letters. + + + IV. + +SCATTERED Moluccas +Not knowing, day to day, +The first day's end, in the next noon; +The placid water +Unbroken by the Simoon; + +Thick foliage +Placid beneath warm suns, +Tawn fore-shores +Washed in the cobalt of oblivions; + +Or through dawn-mist +The grey and rose +Of the juridical +Flamingoes; + +A consciousness disjunct, +Being but this overblotted +Series +Of intermittences; + +Coracle of Pacific voyages, +The unforecasted beach: +Then on an oar +Read this: + +"I was +And I no more exist; +Here drifted +An hedonist." + + +MEDALLION + +LUINI in porcelain! +The grand piano +Utters a profane +Protest with her clear soprano. + +The sleek head emerges +From the gold-yellow frock +As Anadyomene in the opening +Pages of Reinach. + +Honey-red, closing the face-oval +A basket-work of braids which seem as if they were +Spun in King Minos' hall +From metal, or intractable amber; + +The face-oval beneath the glaze, +Bright in its suave bounding-line, as +Beneath half-watt rays +The eyes turn topaz. + + +THIS EDITION OF 200 COPIES IS THE THIRD BOOK + OF THE OVID PRESS: WAS PRINTED BY JOHN + RODKER: AND COMPLETED APRIL + 23RD. 1920 + +OF THIS EDITION:-- + +15 Copies on Japan Vellum numbered 1-15 & not for sale. +20 Signed copies numbered 16-35 +165 Unsigned copies numbered 36-200 + +The initials & colophon by E. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Hugh Selwyn Mauberley + +Author: Ezra Pound + +Release Date: November 18, 2007 [EBook #23538] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY *** + + + + +Produced by Lewis Jones + + + + +Pound, Ezra (1920) _Hugh Selwyn Mauberley_ + + + +Hugh Selwyn +Mauberley + +BY + +E. P. + + + + +THE OVID PRESS +1920 + + + +"VOCAT AESTUS IN UMBRAM" + _Nemesianus Ec. IV._ + + + +H. S. Mauberley + +(LIFE AND CONTACTS) + +Transcriber's note: Ezra Pound's _Hugh Selwyn Mauberley_ +contains accents, diphthongs and Greek characters. Facsimile +images of the poems as originally published are freely available +online from the Internet Archive. Please use these images to +check for any errors or inadequacies in this electronic text. + + + _MAUBERLEY_ + CONTENTS + Part I. + ________ + +_Ode pour l'election de son sepulcher_ +II. +III. +IV. +V. +_Yeux Glauques_ +_"Siena mi fe', disfecemi Maremma"_ +_Brennbaum_ +_Mr. Nixon_ +X. +XI. +XII. + + ____________ + + ENVOI + 1919 + ____________ + + Part II. + 1920 + (Mauberley) + +I. +II. +III. _"The age demanded"_ +IV. +V. _Medallion_ + + + + +E.P. +ODE POUR SELECTION DE SON SEPULCHRE + +FOR three years, out of key with his time, +He strove to resuscitate the dead art +Of poetry; to maintain "the sublime" +In the old sense. Wrong from the start-- + +No hardly, but, seeing he had been born +In a half savage country, out of date; +Bent resolutely on wringing lilies from the acorn; +Capaneus; trout for factitious bait; + +_{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH PSILI AND OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER DELTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER GAMMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH TONOS~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER PI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH TONOS~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER PI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH TONOS~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER THETA~}', {~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON WITH TONOS~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA~}' {~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON WITH TONOS~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~} {~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH TONOS~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA~}_ +Caught in the unstopped ear; +Giving the rocks small lee-way +The chopped seas held him, therefore, that year. + +His true Penelope was Flaubert, +He fished by obstinate isles; +Observed the elegance of Circe's hair +Rather than the mottoes on sun-dials. + +Unaffected by "the march of events," +He passed from men's memory in _l'an trentiesme +De son eage_; the case presents +No adjunct to the Muses' diadem. + + +II. + +THE age demanded an image +Of its accelerated grimace, +Something for the modern stage, +Not, at any rate, an Attic grace; + +Not, not certainly, the obscure reveries +Of the inward gaze; +Better mendacities +Than the classics in paraphrase! + +The "age demanded" chiefly a mould in plaster, +Made with no loss of time, +A prose kinema, not, not assuredly, alabaster +Or the "sculpture" of rhyme. + + +III. + +THE tea-rose tea-gown, etc. +Supplants the mousseline of Cos, +The pianola "replaces" +Sappho's barbitos. + +Christ follows Dionysus, +Phallic and ambrosial +Made way for macerations; +Caliban casts out Ariel. + +All things are a flowing, +Sage Heracleitus says; +But a tawdry cheapness +Shall reign throughout our days. + +Even the Christian beauty +Defects--after Samothrace; +We see _{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON WITH TONOS~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}_ +Decreed in the market place. + +Faun's flesh is not to us, +Nor the saint's vision. +We have the press for wafer; +Franchise for circumcision. + +All men, in law, are equals. +Free of Peisistratus, +We choose a knave or an eunuch +To rule over us. + +O bright Apollo, +_{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH TONOS~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}' {~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH TONOS~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER DELTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}, {~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH TONOS~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}' {~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA WITH TONOS~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}, {~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH TONOS~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER THETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}_, +What god, man, or hero +Shall I place a tin wreath upon! + + +IV. + +THESE fought, in any case, +and some believing, pro domo, in any case . . +Some quick to arm, +some for adventure, +some from fear of weakness, +some from fear of censure, +some for love of slaughter, in imagination, +learning later . . . + +some in fear, learning love of slaughter; +Died some "pro patria, non dulce non et decor". . + +walked eye-deep in hell +believing in old men's lies, then unbelieving +came home, home to a lie, +home to many deceits, +home to old lies and new infamy; + +usury age-old and age-thick +and liars in public places. + +Daring as never before, wastage as never before. +Young blood and high blood, +Fair cheeks, and fine bodies; + +fortitude as never before + +frankness as never before, +disillusions as never told in the old days, +hysterias, trench confessions, +laughter out of dead bellies. + + +V. + +THERE died a myriad, +And of the best, among them, +For an old bitch gone in the teeth, +For a botched civilization, + +Charm, smiling at the good mouth, +Quick eyes gone under earth's lid, + +For two gross of broken statues, +For a few thousand battered books. + + +YEUX GLAUQUES + +GLADSTONE was still respected, +When John Ruskin produced +"Kings Treasuries"; Swinburne +And Rossetti still abused. + +Foetid Buchanan lifted up his voice +When that faun's head of hers +Became a pastime for +Painters and adulterers. + +The Burne-Jones cartons +Have preserved her eyes; +Still, at the Tate, they teach +Cophetua to rhapsodize; + +Thin like brook-water, +With a vacant gaze. +The English Rubaiyat was still-born +In those days. + +The thin, clear gaze, the same +Still darts out faun-like from the half-ruin'd fac +Questing and passive .... +"Ah, poor Jenny's case"... + +Bewildered that a world +Shows no surprise +At her last maquero's +Adulteries. + + +"SIENA MI FE', DISFECEMI MAREMMA" + +AMONG the pickled foetuses and bottled bones, +Engaged in perfecting the catalogue, +I found the last scion of the +Senatorial families of Strasbourg, Monsieur Verog. + +For two hours he talked of Gallifet; +Of Dowson; of the Rhymers' Club; +Told me how Johnson (Lionel) died +By falling from a high stool in a pub . . . + +But showed no trace of alcohol +At the autopsy, privately performed-- +Tissue preserved--the pure mind +Arose toward Newman as the whiskey warmed. + +Dowson found harlots cheaper than hotels; +Headlam for uplift; Image impartially imbued +With raptures for Bacchus, Terpsichore and the Church. +So spoke the author of "The Dorian Mood", + +M. Verog, out of step with the decade, +Detached from his contemporaries, +Neglected by the young, +Because of these reveries. + + +BRENNBAUM. + +THE sky-like limpid eyes, +The circular infant's face, +The stiffness from spats to collar +Never relaxing into grace; + +The heavy memories of Horeb, Sinai and the forty years, +Showed only when the daylight fell +Level across the face +Of Brennbaum "The Impeccable". + + +MR. NIXON + +IN the cream gilded cabin of his steam yacht +Mr. Nixon advised me kindly, to advance with fewer +Dangers of delay. "Consider + "Carefully the reviewer. + +"I was as poor as you are; +"When I began I got, of course, +"Advance on royalties, fifty at first", said Mr. Nixon, +"Follow me, and take a column, +"Even if you have to work free. + +"Butter reviewers. From fifty to three hundred +"I rose in eighteen months; +"The hardest nut I had to crack +"Was Dr. Dundas. + +"I never mentioned a man but with the view +"Of selling my own works. +"The tip's a good one, as for literature +"It gives no man a sinecure." + +And no one knows, at sight a masterpiece. +And give up verse, my boy, +There's nothing in it. + + * * * + +Likewise a friend of Bloughram's once advised me: +Don't kick against the pricks, +Accept opinion. The "Nineties" tried your game +And died, there's nothing in it. + + +X. + +BENEATH the sagging roof +The stylist has taken shelter, +Unpaid, uncelebrated, +At last from the world's welter + +Nature receives him, +With a placid and uneducated mistress +He exercises his talents +And the soil meets his distress. + +The haven from sophistications and contentions +Leaks through its thatch; +He offers succulent cooking; +The door has a creaking latch. + + +XI. + +"CONSERVATRIX of Milesien" +Habits of mind and feeling, +Possibly. But in Ealing +With the most bank-clerkly of Englishmen? + +No, "Milesien" is an exaggeration. +No instinct has survived in her +Older than those her grandmother +Told her would fit her station. + + +XII. + +"DAPHNE with her thighs in bark +Stretches toward me her leafy hands",-- +Subjectively. In the stuffed-satin drawing-room +I await The Lady Valentine's commands, + +Knowing my coat has never been +Of precisely the fashion +To stimulate, in her, +A durable passion; + +Doubtful, somewhat, of the value +Of well-gowned approbation +Of literary effort, +But never of The Lady Valentine's vocation: + +Poetry, her border of ideas, +The edge, uncertain, but a means of blending +With other strata +Where the lower and higher have ending; + +A hook to catch the Lady Jane's attention, +A modulation toward the theatre, +Also, in the case of revolution, +A possible friend and comforter. + + * * * + +Conduct, on the other hand, the soul +"Which the highest cultures have nourished" +To Fleet St. where +Dr. Johnson flourished; + +Beside this thoroughfare +The sale of half-hose has +Long since superseded the cultivation +Of Pierian roses. + + +ENVOI (1919) + +GO, dumb-born book, +Tell her that sang me once that song of Lawes; +Hadst thou but song +As thou hast subjects known, +Then were there cause in thee that should condone +Even my faults that heavy upon me lie +And build her glories their longevity. + +Tell her that sheds +Such treasure in the air, +Recking naught else but that her graces give +Life to the moment, +I would bid them live +As roses might, in magic amber laid, +Red overwrought with orange and all made +One substance and one colour +Braving time. + +Tell her that goes +With song upon her lips +But sings not out the song, nor knows +The maker of it, some other mouth, +May be as fair as hers, +Might, in new ages, gain her worshippers, +When our two dusts with Waller's shall be laid, +Siftings on siftings in oblivion, +Till change hath broken down +All things save Beauty alone. + + +1920 + +(MAUBERLEY) + + I. + +TURNED from the "eau-forte +Par Jaquemart" +To the strait head +Of Mcssalina: + +"His true Penelope +Was Flaubert", +And his tool +The engraver's + +Firmness, +Not the full smile, +His art, but an art +In profile; + +Colourless +Pier Francesca, +Pisanello lacking the skill +To forge Achaia. + + II. + + _"Qu'est ce qu'ils savent de l'amour, et + gu'est ce qu'ils peuvent comprendre? + S'ils ne comprennent pas la poesie, + s'ils ne sentent pas la musique, qu'est ce + qu'ils peuvent comprendre de cette pas- + sion en comparaison avec laquelle la rose + est grossiere et le parfum des violettes un + tonnerre?"_ CAID ALI + +FOR three years, diabolus in the scale, +He drank ambrosia, +All passes, ANANGKE prevails, +Came end, at last, to that Arcadia. + +He had moved amid her phantasmagoria, +Amid her galaxies, +NUKTIS AGALMA + +Drifted....drifted precipitate, +Asking time to be rid of.... +Of his bewilderment; to designate +His new found orchid.... + +To be certain....certain... +(Amid aerial flowers)..time for arrangements-- +Drifted on +To the final estrangement; + +Unable in the supervening blankness +To sift TO AGATHON from the chaff +Until he found his seive... +Ultimately, his seismograph: + +--Given, that is, his urge +To convey the relation +Of eye-lid and cheek-bone +By verbal manifestation; + +To present the series +Of curious heads in medallion-- + +He had passed, inconscient, full gaze, +The wide-banded irises +And botticellian sprays implied +In their diastasis; + +Which anaesthesis, noted a year late, +And weighed, revealed his great affect, +(Orchid), mandate +Of Eros, a retrospect. + + . . . + +Mouths biting empty air, +The still stone dogs, +Caught in metamorphosis were, +Left him as epilogues. + + +"THE AGE DEMANDED" + +VIDE POEM II. + +FOR this agility chance found +Him of all men, unfit +As the red-beaked steeds of +The Cytheraean for a chain-bit. + +The glow of porcelain +Brought no reforming sense +To his perception +Of the social inconsequence. + +Thus, if her colour +Came against his gaze, +Tempered as if +It were through a perfect glaze + +He made no immediate application +Of this to relation of the state +To the individual, the month was more temperate +Because this beauty had been + ...... + The coral isle, the lion-coloured sand + Burst in upon the porcelain revery: + Impetuous troubling + Of his imagery. + ...... + +Mildness, amid the neo-Neitzschean clatter, +His sense of graduations, +Quite out of place amid +Resistance to current exacerbations + +Invitation, mere invitation to perceptivity +Gradually led him to the isolation +Which these presents place +Under a more tolerant, perhaps, examination. + +By constant elimination +The manifest universe +Yielded an armour +Against utter consternation, + +A Minoan undulation, +Seen, we admit, amid ambrosial circumstances +Strengthened him against +The discouraging doctrine of chances + +And his desire for survival, +Faint in the most strenuous moods, +Became an Olympian _apathein_ +In the presence of selected perceptions. + +A pale gold, in the aforesaid pattern, +The unexpected palms +Destroying, certainly, the artist's urge, +Left him delighted with the imaginary +Audition of the phantasmal sea-surge, + +Incapable of the least utterance or composition, +Emendation, conservation of the "better tradition", +Refinement of medium, elimination of superfluities, +August attraction or concentration. + +Nothing in brief, but maudlin confession +Irresponse to human aggression, +Amid the precipitation, down-float +Of insubstantial manna +Lifting the faint susurrus +Of his subjective hosannah. + +Ultimate affronts to human redundancies; + +Non-esteem of self-styled "his betters" +Leading, as he well knew, +To his final +Exclusion from the world of letters. + + + IV. + +SCATTERED Moluccas +Not knowing, day to day, +The first day's end, in the next noon; +The placid water +Unbroken by the Simoon; + +Thick foliage +Placid beneath warm suns, +Tawn fore-shores +Washed in the cobalt of oblivions; + +Or through dawn-mist +The grey and rose +Of the juridical +Flamingoes; + +A consciousness disjunct, +Being but this overblotted +Series +Of intermittences; + +Coracle of Pacific voyages, +The unforecasted beach: +Then on an oar +Read this: + +"I was +And I no more exist; +Here drifted +An hedonist." + + +MEDALLION + +LUINI in porcelain! +The grand piano +Utters a profane +Protest with her clear soprano. + +The sleek head emerges +From the gold-yellow frock +As Anadyomene in the opening +Pages of Reinach. + +Honey-red, closing the face-oval +A basket-work of braids which seem as if they were +Spun in King Minos' hall +From metal, or intractable amber; + +The face-oval beneath the glaze, +Bright in its suave bounding-line, as +Beneath half-watt rays +The eyes turn topaz. + + +THIS EDITION OF 200 COPIES IS THE THIRD BOOK + OF THE OVID PRESS: WAS PRINTED BY JOHN + RODKER: AND COMPLETED APRIL + 23RD. 1920 + +OF THIS EDITION:-- + +15 Copies on Japan Vellum numbered 1-15 & not for sale. +20 Signed copies numbered 16-35 +165 Unsigned copies numbered 36-200 + +The initials & colophon by E. 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