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“On His Own Face in a Glass” by
Ezra Pound
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(
30 Oct 1885
–
1 Nov 1972
)
O strange face there in the glass!
O ribald company, O saintly host,
O sorrow-swept my fool,
What answer? O ye myriad
That strive and play and pass,
Jest, challenge, counterlie?
I? I? I?
And ye?