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Ezra Pound - Canto XLIX: For the Seven LakesEzra Pound - Canto XLIX: For the Seven Lakes
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For the seven lakes, and by no man these verses:     Rain; empty river; a voyage,     Fire from frozen cloud, heavy rain in the twilight     Under the cabin roof was one lantern.     The reeds are heavy; bent;     and the bamboos speak as if weeping.     Autumn moon; hills rise about lakes     against sunset     Evening is like a curtain of cloud,     a blurr above ripples; and through it     sharp long spikes of the cinnamon,     a cold tune amid reeds.     Behind hill the monk`s bell     borne on the wind.     Sail passed here in April; may return in October     Boat fades in silver; slowly;     Sun blaze alone on the river.     Where wine flag catches the sunset     Sparse chimneys smoke in the cross light     Comes then snow scur on the river     And a world is covered with jade     Small boat floats like a lanthorn,     The flowing water closts as with cold. And at San Yin     they are a people of leisure.     Wild geese swoop to the sand-bar,     Clouds gather about the hole of the window     Broad water; geese line out with the autumn     Rooks clatter over the fishermen`s lanthorns,     A light moves on the north sky line;     where the young boys prod stones for shrimp.     In seventeen hundred came Tsing to these hill lakes.     A light moves on the South sky line.     State by creating riches shd. thereby get into debt?     This is infamy; this is Geryon.     This canal goes still to TenShi     Though the old king built it for pleasure     K E I M E N R A N K E I     K I U M A N M A N K E I     JITSU GETSU K O K W A     T A N FUKU T A N K A I     Sun up; work     sundown; to rest     dig well and drink of the water     dig field; eat of the grain     Imperial power is? and to us what is it?     The fourth; the dimension of stillness.     And the power over wild beasts.
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