IV

Scattered Moluccas
Not knowing, day to day,
The first days end, in the next noon;
The placed water
Unbroken by the Simoon;

Thick foliage
Placid beneath warm suns
Tawn fore-shores
Washed in the cobalt of oblivions;

Or through dawn-mist
The grey and rose
Of the juridical
Flamingoes;

A consciousness disjunct,
Being but this overblotted
Series
of intermittences;

Coracle of Pacific voyages,
The unforecasted beach:
Then on an oar
Read this:

"I was
And I no more exist;
Here drifted
An hedonist"

Ezra Pound, Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, Kissinger Publishing (s.d.)