Poem by Ezra Weston Loomis Pound

The Garret

Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are.
Come, my friend, and remember
       that the rich have butlers and no friends,
And we have friends and no butlers.
Come, let us pity the married and the unmarried.

Dawn enters with little feet
       like a gilded Pavlova
And I am near my desire.
Nor has life in it aught better
Than this hour of clear coolness
       the hour of waking together.

1. Cantico del Sole
2. A Pact
3. Fan-Piece, for Her Imperial Lord
4. The Needle
5. Masks

William Thackeray The Garret ("WITH pensive eyes the little room I view")

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