Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A SONG OF THE DEGREES, by EZRA POUND



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First Line: Rest me with chinese colours
Last Line: O filaments of amber, two-faced iridescence!


I

Rest me with Chinese colours,
For I think the glass is evil.

II

The wind moves above the wheat --
With a silver crashing,
A thin war of metal.

I have known the golden disc,
I have seen it melting above me.
I have known the stone-bright place,
The hall of clear colours.

III

O glass subtly evil, O confusion of colours!
O light bound and bent in, O soul of the captive,
Why am I warned? Why am I sent away?
Why is your glitter full of curious mistrust?
O glass subtle and cunning, O powdery gold!
O filaments of amber, two-faced iridescence!





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