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HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY: 10 by EZRA POUND

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First Line: BENEATH THE SAGGING ROOF
Last Line: THE DOOR HAS A CREAKING LATCH.
Beneath the sagging roof
The stylist has taken shelter,
Unpaid, uncelebrated,
At last from the world's welter

Nature receives him;
With a placid and uneducated mistress
He exercises his talents
And the soil meets his distress.

The haven from sophistications and contentions
Leaks through its thatch;
He offers succulent cooking;
The door has a creaking latch.



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