Poems 1918-21 : :: :: University of Virginia Library

Poems 1918-21 :

including three portraits and four cantos

Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)

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XI. XI

CONSERVATRIX of Milésien"
Habits of mind and feeling,
Possibly. But in Ealing
With the most bank-clerkly of Englishmen?

No, "Milésian" is an exaggeration.
No instinct has survived in her
Older than those her grandmother
Told her would fit her station.