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“De Aegypto” by Ezra Pound 🇺🇸🇮🇹 (30 Oct 1885 – 1 Nov 1972)
I even I, am he who knoweth the roads
Through the sky, and the wind thereof is my body.
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I have beheld the Lady of Life,
I, even I, who fly with the swallows.
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Green and gray is her raiment,
Trailing along the wind.
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I, even I, am he who knoweth the roads
Through the sky, and the wind thereof is my body.
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Manus animam pinxit,
My pen is in my hand
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To write the acceptable word …
My mouth to chant the pure singing!
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Who hath the mouth to receive it,
The song of the Lotus of Kumi?
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I, even I, am he who knoweth the roads
Through the sky, and the wind thereof is my body.
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I am flame that riseth in the sun,
I, even I, who fly with the swallows.
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The moon is upon my forehead,
The winds are under my lips.
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The moon is a great pearl in the waters of sapphire,
Cool to my fingers the flowing waters.
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I, even I, am he who knoweth the roads
Through the sky, and the wind thereof is my body.
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I will return to the halls of the flowing,
Of the truth of the children of Ashu.
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I, even I, am he who knoweth the roads
Of the sky, and the wind thereof is my body.