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Poems 1918-21 :

including three portraits and four cantos
Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)
  
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CONTENTS

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HOMAGE TO SEXTUS PROPERTIUS
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LANGUE D'OC
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MOEURS CONTEMPORAINES
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HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY
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CANTOS

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2

His brother has taken to gipsies,
But the son-in-law of Mr. H. Styrax
Objects to perfumed cigarettes.
In the parlance of Niccolo Macchiavelli,
"Thus things proceed in their circle";
And thus the empire is maintained.
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