From the Pound Cantos: CENTO X
I want it to be quite clear that
he did among other things
from the other side, from inside
the chateau, & then out by the
lower river, the ball as of melted
amber, coiled lozenge of the
pavement, clear shapes, broken —
on les pèse à un centigramme —
pouring there into the cataract,
with noise of sea over shingle.
About ten years after this inci-
dent he pulled his sword on a
student for laughing. Then the
telephone didn’t work for a week.