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Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.

Amitiés

Ezra Pound

  • Old friends the most.
  • W. B. Y.
  • I
    To one, on returning certain years after.

    YOU wore the same quite correct clothing,

    You took no pleasure at all in my triumphs,

    You had the same old air of condescension

    Mingled with a curious fear

    That I, myself, might have enjoyed them.

    Te voila, man Bourrienne, you also shall be immortal.

    II
    To another.

    And we say good-bye to you also,

    For you seem never to have discovered

    That your relationship is wholly parasitic;

    Yet to our feasts you bring neither

    Wit, nor good spirits, nor the pleasing attitudes

    Of discipleship.

    III
    But you, bos amic, we keep on,

    For to you we owe a real debt:

    In spite of your obvious flaws,

    You once discovered a moderate chop-house.

    IV
  • Iste fuit vir incultus,
  • Deo laus, quod est sepultus,
  • Vermes habent eius vultum
  • A-a-a-a—A-men.
  • Ego autem jovialis
  • Gaudebo in contubernalis
  • Cum jocunda femina.