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“The Rest” by Ezra Pound 🇺🇸🇮🇹 (30 Oct 1885 – 1 Nov 1972)
O helpless few in my country,
O remnant enslaved!
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Artists broken against her,
A-stray, lost in the villages,
Mistrusted, spoken-against,
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Lovers of beauty, starved,
Thwarted with systems,
Helpless against the control;
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You who can not wear yourselves out
By persisting to successes,
You who can only speak,
Who can not steel yourselves into reiteration;
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You of the finer sense,
Broken against false knowledge,
You who can know at first hand,
Hated, shut in, mistrusted:
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Take thought:
I have weathered the storm,
I have beaten out my exile.