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ANCORA by EZRA POUND

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First Line: GOOD GOD! THEY SAY YOU ARE RISQUE
Last Line: HAD WE EVER SUCH AN EPITHET CAST UPON US!!

Good God! They say you are @3risque,@1
O canzonetti!
We who went out into the four A. M. of the world
Composing our albas,
We who shook off our dew with the rabbits,
We who have seen even Artemis a-binding her sandals,
Have we ever heard the like?
O mountains of Hellas!!
Gather about me, O Muses!
When we sat upon the granite brink in Helicon
Clothed in the tattered sunlight,
O Muses with delicate shins,
O Muses with delectable knee-joints,
When we splashed and were splashed with
The lucid Castalian spray,
Had we ever such an epithet cast upon us!!



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