Canto LI (исполнитель: Ezra Pound)
Shines in the mind of heaven God who made it more than the sun in our eye. Fifth element; mud; said Napoleon With usury has no man a good house made of stone, no paradise on his church wall With usury the stone cutter is kept from his stone the weaver is kept from his loom by usura Wool does [bad word] into market the peasant does not eat his own grain the girl's needle goes blunt in her hand The looms are hushed one after another ten thousand after ten thousand Duccio was not by usura Nor was 'La Calunnia' painted. Neither Ambrogio Praedis nor Angelico had their skill by usura Nor St Trophime its cloisters; Nor St Hilaire its proportion. [bad word] the man and his chisel It destroys the craftsman, destroying craft; Azure is caught with cancer. [bad word] to no Memling Usury kills the child in the womb And breaks short the young man's courting Usury brings age into youth; it lies between the bride and the bridegroom Usury is against Nature's increase. Whores for Eleusis; Under usury no stone is cut smooth Peasant has no gain from his sheep herd Blue dun; number 2 in most rivers for dark days, when it is cold starling's wing will give you the colour or duck widgeon, if you take feather from under the wing Let the body be of blue fox fur, or a water rat's or grey squirrel's. Take this with a portion of mohair and a [bad word] s hackle for legs. 12th of March to 2nd of April Hen pheasant's feather does for a fly, green tail, the wings flat on the body Dark fur from a hare's ear for a body a green shaded partridge feather grizzled yellow [bad word] s hackle green wax; harl from a peacock's tail bright lower body; about the size of pin the head should be. can be fished from seven a.m. till eleven; at which time the brown marsh [bad word] on. As long as the brown continues, no fish will take Granham That hath the light of the doer, as it were a form cleaving to it. Deo similis quodam modo hic intellectus adeptus Grass; nowhere out of place. Thus speaking in Königsberg Zwischen die Volkern erzielt wird a modus vivendi. circling in eddying air; in a hurry; the 12: close eyed in the oily wind these were the regents; and a sour song from the folds of his belly sang Geryone; I am the help of the aged; I pay men to talk peace; Mistress of many tongues; merchant of chalcedony I am Geryon twin with usura, You who have lived in a stage set. thousand were dead in his folds; in the eel-fishers basket Time was of the League of Cambrai