Ezra Pound, We have the press for wafer

From E. P. Ode pour l'election de son sepulchre, from Hugh Selwyn Mauberley

III

THE tea-rose tea-gown, etc.
Supplants the mousseline of Cos,
The pianola "replaces"
Sappho's barbitos.

Christ follows Dionysus,
Phallic and ambrosial
Made way for macerations;
Caliban casts out Ariel.

All things are a flowing,
Sage Heracleitus says;
But a tawdry cheapness
Shall outlast our days.

Even the Christian beauty
Defects- after Samothrace;
We see to kalon
Decreed in the market place.

Faun's flesh is not to us,
Nor the saint's vision.
We have the press for wafer;
Franchise for circumcision.

All men, in law, are equals.
Free of Pisistratus,
We choose a knave or an eunuch
To rule over us.

O bright Apollo,
tin andra, tin eroa, tina theon,
What god, man, or hero
Shall I place a tin wreath upon!

   Cf. Ibsen, No taste for glory,   Hugh of St. Victor, Learn gladly from everyone,
Samuel Johnson, Prepare for eternity,   Hoelderlin, The God is near, and hard to grasp,
Gregory Theologian, Education is the highest good,     Papacy

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