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THE WHITE STAG by EZRA POUND

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First Line: I HA' SEEN THEM 'MID THE CLOUDS ON THE HEATHER
Last Line: "BID THE WORLD'S HOUNDS COME TO HORN!"
I ha' seen them 'mid the clouds on the heather.
Lo! they pause not for love nor for sorrow,
Yet their eyes are as the eyes of a maid to her lover,
When the white hart breaks his cover
And the white wind breaks the morn.

@3" 'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting,
Bid the world's hounds come to horn!"@1



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