XXIX
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Pearl, great sphere, and hollow,
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Mist over lake, full of sunlight,
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Pernella concubina
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The sleeve green and shot gold over her hand
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Wishing her son to inherit
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Expecting the heir ainé be killed in battle
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He being courageous, poisoned his brother puiné
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Laying blame on Siena
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And this she did by a page
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Bringing war once more on Pitigliano
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And the page repented and told this
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To Nicolo (ainé) Pitigliano
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Who won back that rock from his father
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“still doting on Pernella his concubine”.
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The sand that night like a seal’s back
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Glossy beneath the lanthorns.
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From the Via Sacra
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( fleeing what band of Tritons)
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Up to the open air
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Over that mound of the hippodrome:
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Liberans et vinculo ab omni liberatos
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As who with four hands at the cross roads
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By king’s hand or sacerdos’
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are given their freedom
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—Save who were at Castra San Zeno ...
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Cunizza for God’s love , for remitting the soul of her father
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—May hell take the traitors of Zeno.
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And fifth begat he Alberic
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And sixth the Lady Cunizza.
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In the house of the Cavalcanti
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anno 1265:
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Free go they all as by full manumission
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All serfs of Eccelin my father da Romano
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Save those who were with Alberic at Castra San Zeno
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And let them go also
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The devils of hell in their body.
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And sixth the Lady Cunizza
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That was first given Richard St Boniface
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And Sordello subtracted her from that husband
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And lay with her in Tarviso
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Till he was driven out of Tarviso
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And she left with a soldier named Bonius
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nimium amorata in eum
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And went from one place to another
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“The light of this star o’ercame me”
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Greatly enjoying herself
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And running up the most awful bills.
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And this Bonius was killed on a sunday
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and she had then a Lord from Braganza
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and later a house in Verona.
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And he looked from the planks to heaven,
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Said Juventus: “Immortal ...
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He said: “Ten thousand years before now ...
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Or he said: “Passing into the point of the cone
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You begin by making the replica.
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Thus Lusty Juventus, in September,
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In cool air, under sky,
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Before the residence of the funeral director
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Whose daughters’ conduct caused comment.
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But the old man did not know how he felt
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Nor cd. remember what prompted the utterance.
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He said: “What I know, I have known,
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“How can the knowing cease knowing?”
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By the lawn of the senior elder
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He continued his ambulation:
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“Matter is the lightest of all things,
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“Chaff, rolled into balls, tossed, whirled in the aether,
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“Undoubtedly crushed by the weight,
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“Light also proceeds from the eye;
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“In the globe over my head
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“Twenty feet in diameter, thirty feet in diameter
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“Glassy, the glaring surface—
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“There are many reflections
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“So that one may watch them turning and moving
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“With heads down now, and now up.
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He went on toward the amateur student of minerals
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That later went bankrupt;
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He went on past the house of the local funny man,
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Jo Tyson that had a camera. His daughter was bow-legged
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And married the assembly-man’s son.
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O-hon dit que-ke fois au vi’-a-ge ...
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Past the house of the three retired clergymen
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Who were too cultured to keep their jobs.
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Languor has cried unto languor
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about the marshmallow-roast
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(Let us speak of the osmosis of persons)
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The wail of the phonograph has penetrated their marrow
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(Let us ...
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The wail of the pornograph....)
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The cicadas continue uninterrupted.
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With a vain emptiness the virgins return to their homes
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With a vain exasperation
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The ephèbe has gone back to his dwelling,
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The djassban has hammered and hammered,
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The gentleman of fifty has reflected
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That it is perhaps just as well.
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Let things remain as they are.
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The mythological exterior lies on the moss in the forest
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And questions him about Darwin.
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And with a burning fire of phantasy
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he replies with “Deh! nuvoletta ...”
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So that she would regret his departure.
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Drift of weed in the bay:
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She seeking a guide, a mentor,
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He aspires to a career with honour
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To step in the tracks of his elders;
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a greater incomprehension?
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There is no greater incomprehension
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Than between the young and the young.
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The young seek comprehension;
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The middleaged to fulfill their desire.
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Sea weed dried now, and now floated,
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mind drifts, weed, slow youth, drifts,
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Stretched on the rock, bleached and now floated;
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Wein, Weib, TAN AOIDAN
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Chiefest of these the second, the female
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Is an element, the female
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Is a chaos
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An octopus
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A biological process
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and we seek to fulfill ...
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TAN AOIDAN, our desire, drift ...
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Ailas e que’m fau miey huelh
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Quar no vezon so qu’ieu vuelh.
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Our mulberry leaf, woman, TAN AOIDAN,
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Nel ventre tuo, o nella mente mia,
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“Yes, Milady, precisely, if you wd.
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have anything properly made.”
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“Faziamo tutte le due ...
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“No, not in the palm-room”. The lady says it is
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Too cold in the palm-room. Des valeurs,
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Nom de Dieu, et
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encore des valeurs.
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She is submarine, she is an octopus, she is
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A biological process,
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So Arnaut turned there
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Above him the wave pattern cut in the stone
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Spire-top alevel the well-curb
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And the tower with cut stone above that, saying:
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“I am afraid of the life after death.”
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and after a pause:
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“Now, at last, I have shocked him.”
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And another day or evening toward sundown by the arena
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(les gradins)
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A little lace at the wrist
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And not very clean lace either ...
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And I, “But this beats me,
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“Beats me, I mean that I do not understand it;
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“This love of death that is in them.”
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Let us consider the osmosis of persons
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nondum orto jubare;
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The tower, ivory, the clear sky
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Ivory rigid in sunlight
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And the pale clear of the heaven
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Phoibos of narrow thighs,
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The cut cool of the air,
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Blossom cut on the wind, by Helios
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Lord of the Light’s edge, and April
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Blown round the feet of the God,
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Beauty on an ass-cart
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Sitting on five sacks of laundry
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That wd. have been the road by Perugia
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That leads out to San Piero. Eyes brown topaz,
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Brookwater over brown sand,
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The white hounds on the slope,
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Glide of water, lights and the prore,
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Silver beaks out of night,
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Stone, bough over bough,
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lamps fluid in water,
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Pine by the black trunk of its shadow
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And on hill black trunks of the shadow
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The trees melted in air.