OrtusAuthor(s): Ezra PoundSource: Poetry, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Apr., 1913), p. 4Published by: Poetry FoundationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20569740 .

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POETRY: A Magazine of Verse

She would like some one to speak to her, And is almost afraid that I

will commit that indiscretion.

ORTUS

How have I labored? How have I not labored To bring her soul to birth, To give these elements a name and a centre!

She is beautiful as the sunlight, and as fluid. She has no name, and no place. How have I laboured to bring her soul into separation; To give her a name and her being!

Surely you are bound and entwined, You are mingled with the elements unborn; I have loved a stream and a shadow.

I beseech you enter your life. I beseech you learn to say " I"

When I question you: For you are no part, but a whole; No portion, but a being.

DANCE FIGURE

For the Marriage in Cana of Galilee Dark eyed, O woman of my dreams,

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