To ΚΑΛῸΝAuthor(s): Ezra PoundSource: Poetry, Vol. 4, No. 5 (Aug., 1914), p. 169Published by: Poetry FoundationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20570106 .

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VOL. IV No. V

~oetv 0aline of Verse

AUGUST, 1914

POEMS

TO KAAON

VEN in my dreams you have denied yourself to me,

You have sent me only your handmaids.

_,6 THE STUDY IN AESTHETICS

The very small children in patched clothing,

Being smitten with an unusual wisdom,

Stopped in their play as she passed them And cried up from their cobbles:

Guarda! Ahi, Guarda! ch'e b'ea!

But three years after this I heard the young Dante, whose last name I do not know

For there are, in Sirmione, twenty-eight young Dantes and

thirty-four Catulli;

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