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Ezra Pound
Collected Shorter Poems (Faber and Faber, 1973)
The White Stag*

I ha' seen them mid the clouds on the heather.
Lo! they pause not for love nor for sorrow,
Yet their eyes are as the eyes of a maid to her lover,
When the white hart breaks his cover
And the white wind breaks the morn.

"'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting,
Bid the world's hounds come to horn!"


* An allusion to Malory's Tale of King Arthur. Gawain is given the task of killing a white stag (c)

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