May 23, 2008

An Immortality by Ezra Pound

An Immortality


Sing we for love and idleness,

Naught else is worth the having.


Though I have been in many a land,

There is naught else in living.


And I would rather have my sweet,

Though rose-leaves die of grieving,


Than do high deeds in Hungary

To pass all men's believing.


Ezra Pound

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