Pinie

And the old man sweeping leaves:
“Damned to you Midas, Midas lacking a Pan!”
And now in the valley,
Valley under the day’s edge:
“Grow with the Pines of Ise;
“As the Nile swells with Inopos.
“As the Nile falls with Inopos.”



[Ezra Pound, Canto IV]