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Definition

Lustrum : an offering for the sins of the whole

people, made by the censors at the expiration of their

five years of office.

Elementary Latin Dictionary of Charlton T. Lewis

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Certain of these poems have appeared in Poetry;

Blast, Poetry and Drama, Smart Set, and Others,

to the editors of which magazines the author

wishes to make due acknowledgment.

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E.P.

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Tenzone

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Will people accept them?

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(i.e. these songs).

As a timorous wench from a centaur

(or a centurion),

 Already they flee, howling in terror.

Will they be touched with the verisimilitudes?

Their virgin stupidity is untemptable.

I  beg you, my friendly critics,

Do not set  about to procure me an audience.

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I mate with my free kind upon the crags ;

the  hidden recesses

Have  heard the echo of my heels,

in the cool light,

in the darkness.

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Tenzone

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¿La gente las aceptará?

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(es decir, estas canciones).

Como una muchacha temerosa de un centauro

(o de un centurión)

Ya escapan, aullando de terror.

¿Van a ser conmovidas por las verosimilitudes?

Su estupidez virgen es inviolable.

Os ruego, amistosos críticos míos,

que no intentéis conseguirme una audiencia.

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Convivo con mi libre especie sobre los riscos;

los ocultos recovecos

han escuchado el eco de mis talones,

en la fría luz,

en la oscuridad.

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Lustra of Ezra Pound

London

Elkin Mathews, Cork Street

MCMXVI

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Ezra Pound photographed by David Lees in Piazza San Marco, Venice

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