| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917. |
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| 284. The Coming of War: Actæon |
| | | By Ezra Pound |
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| AN image of Lethe, | |
| and the fields | |
| Full of faint light | |
| but golden, | |
| Gray cliffs, | 5 |
| and beneath them | |
| A sea | |
| Harsher than granite, | |
| unstill, never ceasing; | |
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| High forms | 10 |
| with the movement of gods, | |
| Perilous aspect; | |
| And one said: | |
| “This is Actaeon.” | |
| Actaeon of golden greaves! | 15 |
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| Over fair meadows, | |
| Over the cool face of that field, | |
| Unstill, ever moving, | |
| Host of an ancient people, | |
| The silent cortège. | 20 |
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