Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
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The opening
ODE POUR L'ÉLECTION DE SON SÉPULCHRE
(LIFE AND CONTACTS)
FOR three years, out of key with his time, He strove to resuscitate the dead art Of poetry; to maintain “the sublime” In the old sense. Wrong from the start—
No hardly, but, seeing he had been born In a half savage country, out of date; Bent resolutely on wringing lilies from the acorn; Capaneus; trout for factitious bait;
Ἴδμεν γάρ τοι πάνθ’, ὅσ ‘ένι Τροίη Caught in the unstopped ear; Giving the rocks small lee-way The chopped seas held him, therefore, that year.
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