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“Octave” by Ezra Pound 🇺🇸🇮🇹 (30 Oct 18851 Nov 1972)
Fine songs, fair songs, these golden usuries
A Her beauty earns as but just increment,
And they do speak with a most ill intent
Who say they give when they pay debtor’s fees.
I call him bankrupt in the courts of song
Who hath her gold to eye and pays her not,
Defaulter do I call the knave who hath got
Her silver in his heart, and doth her wrong.