Cantico del Sole
By Ezra Pound
The thought of what America would be like
If the Classics had a wide circulation
Troubles my sleep,
The thought of what America,
The thought of what America,
The thought of what America would be like
If the Classics had a wide circulation
Troubles my sleep.
Nunc dimittis, now lettest thou thy servant,
Now lettest thou thy servant
Depart in peace.
The thought of what America,
The thought of what America,
The thought of what America would be like
If the Classics had a wide circulation . . .
Oh well!
It troubles my sleep.
Copyright Credit: Ezra Pound, "Cantico del Sole" from Personae, copyright 1926 by Ezra Pound. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation.
Source: Ezra Pound: Poems and Translations (The Library of America, 2003)