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PICCADILLY by EZRA POUND

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First Line: BEAUTIFUL, TRAGICAL FACES

Beautiful, tragical faces,
Ye that were whole, and are so sunken;
And, O ye vile, ye that might have been loved,
That are so sodden and drunken,
Who hath forgotten you?


O wistful, fragile faces, few out of many!


The gross, the coarse, the brazen,
God knows I cannot pity them, perhaps, as I should do,
But, oh, ye delicate, wistful faces,
Who hath forgotten you?




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