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

The Coming of War: Actaeon

Ezra Pound

AN IMAGE of Lethe,

and the fields

Full of faint light

but golden,

Gray cliffs,

and beneath them

A sea

Harsher than granite,

unstill, never ceasing;

High forms

with the movement of gods,

Perilous aspect;

And one said:

“This is Actaeon.”

Actaeon of golden greaves!

Over fair meadows,

Over the cool face of that field,

Unstill, ever moving,

Host of an ancient people,

The silent cortège.