Ortus

by Ezra Pound

How have I labored? How have I not labored To bring her soul to birth, To give these elements a name and a centre! She is beautiful as the sunlight, and as fluid. She has no name, and no place. How have I labored to bring her soul into separation; To give her a name and her being! Surely you are bound and entwined, You are mingled with the elements unborn; I have loved a stream and a shadow. I beseech you enter your life. I beseech you learn to say ā€œIā€ When I question you: For you are no part, but a whole; No portion, but a being.

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