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“The Choice” by Ezra Pound 🇺🇸🇮🇹 (30 Oct 18851 Nov 1972)
It is true that you say the gods are more use to you than fairies,
But for all that I have seen you on a high, white, noble horse,
Like some strange queen in a story.
It is odd that you should be covered with long robes and trailing tendrils and flowers;
It is odd that you should be changing your face and resembling some other woman to plague me;
It is odd that you should be hiding yourself in the cloud of beautiful women, who do not concern me.
And I, who follow every seed-leaf upon the wind!
They will say that I deserve this.