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THE SPRING by EZRA POUND

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First Line: CYDONIAN [OR, CYDONION] SPRING WITH HER ATTENDANT TRAIN
Last Line: MOVES ONLY NOW A CLINGING TENUOUS GHOST.

Cydonian Spring with her attendant train,
Maelids and water-girls,
Stepping beneath a boisterous wind from Thrace,
Throughout this sylvan place
Spreads the bright tips,
And every vine-stock is
Clad in new brilliancies.
And wild desire
Falls like black lightning.
O bewildered heart,
Though every branch have back what last year lost,
She, who moved here amid the cyclamen,
Moves only now a clinging tenuous ghost.



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