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Lustra

by Ezra Pound

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It is true that you say the gods are more use to you than fairies,
But for all that I have seen you
        on a high, white, noble horse,
Like some strange queen in a story.

It is odd that you should be covered with long robes
        and trailing tendrils and flowers;
It is odd that you should be changing your face
        and resembling some other woman to plague me;
It is odd that you should be hiding yourself
In the cloud of beautiful women who do not concern me.

And I, who follow every seed-leaf upon the wind?
You will say that I deserve this.

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