THE RETURN
See, they return; ah, see the tentativeMovements, and the slow feet,The trouble in the pace and the uncertainWavering!See, they return, one, and by one,With fear, as half-awakened;As if the snow should hesitateAnd murmur in the windand half turn back;These were the “Wing’d-with-Awe,”Inviolable.Gods of the winged shoe!With them the silver houndssniffing the trace of air!Haie! Haie!These were the swift to harry;These the keen-scented;These were the souls of blood.Slow on the leash,pallid the leash-men!Ezra Pound
See, they return; ah, see the tentativeMovements, and the slow feet,The trouble in the pace and the uncertainWavering!See, they return, one, and by one,With fear, as half-awakened;As if the snow should hesitateAnd murmur in the windand half turn back;These were the “Wing’d-with-Awe,”Inviolable.Gods of the winged shoe!With them the silver houndssniffing the trace of air!Haie! Haie!These were the swift to harry;These the keen-scented;These were the souls of blood.Slow on the leash,pallid the leash-men!Ezra Pound
See, they return; ah, see the tentativeMovements, and the slow feet,The trouble in the pace and the uncertainWavering!
See, they return; ah, see the tentative
Movements, and the slow feet,
The trouble in the pace and the uncertain
Wavering!
See, they return, one, and by one,With fear, as half-awakened;As if the snow should hesitateAnd murmur in the windand half turn back;These were the “Wing’d-with-Awe,”Inviolable.
See, they return, one, and by one,
With fear, as half-awakened;
As if the snow should hesitate
And murmur in the wind
and half turn back;
These were the “Wing’d-with-Awe,”
Inviolable.
Gods of the winged shoe!With them the silver houndssniffing the trace of air!Haie! Haie!These were the swift to harry;These the keen-scented;These were the souls of blood.
Gods of the winged shoe!
With them the silver hounds
sniffing the trace of air!
Haie! Haie!
These were the swift to harry;
These the keen-scented;
These were the souls of blood.
Slow on the leash,pallid the leash-men!
Slow on the leash,
pallid the leash-men!
Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound