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“Les Millwin” by Ezra Pound 🇺🇸🇮🇹 (30 Oct 1885 – 1 Nov 1972)
The little Millwins attend the Russian Ballet.
The mauve and greenish souls of the little Millwins
Were seen lying along the upper seats
Like so many unused boas.
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The turbulent and undisciplined host of art students—
The rigorous deputation from “Slade”—
Was before them.
With arms exalted, with fore-arms
Crossed in great futuristic X’s, the art students
Exulted, they beheld the splendours of Cleopatra.
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And the little Millwins beheld these things;
With their large and anæmic eyes they looked out upon this configuration.
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Let us therefore mention the fact,
For it seems to us worthy of record.