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I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

“Be sped, my Canzon, through the bitter air!
To him who speaketh words as fair as these,
Say that I also know the ‘Yearly Slain.’”

Ezra Pound | “Canzon: The Yearly Slain”