| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | The Gipsy | | By Ezra Pound |
| | | | “Est-ce que vous avez vu des autres—des camarades—avec des singes ou des ours?” |
| A stray gipsy—A. D. 1912 |
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THAT was the top of the walk, when he said: | |
| “Have you seen any others, any of our lot, | |
“With apes or bears?”
—A brown upstanding fellow | |
Not like the half-castes,
up on the wet road near Clermont. | |
| The wind came, and the rain, | 5 |
| And mist clotted about the trees in the valley, | |
And I’d the long ways behind me,
gray Arles and Biaucaire, | |
| And he said, “Have you seen any of our lot?” | |
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I’d seen a lot of his lot …
ever since Rhodez, | |
Coming down from the fair
of St. John, | 10 |
| With caravans, but never an ape or a bear. | | | |
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