Ezra Pound. A Pact. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22.

A Pact

By Ezra Pound


From “Contemporania” I MAKE truce with you, Walt Whitman—
I have detested you long enough.
I come to you as a grown child
Who has had a pig-headed father;
I am old enough now to make friends.	5
It was you that broke the new wood,
Now is a time for carving.
We have one sap and one root—
Let there be commerce between us.