Middle-Aged: A Study in an EmotionAuthor(s): Ezra PoundSource: Poetry, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Oct., 1912), p. 8Published by: Poetry FoundationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20569626 .

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POETRY: A Magazine of Verse

MIDDLE-AGED A STUDY IN AN EMOTION

"'Tis but a vague, invarious delight As gold that rains about some buried king.

As the fine flakes, When tourists frolicking Stamp on his roof or in the glazing light Try photographs, wolf down their ale and cakes And start to inspect some further pyramid;

As the fine dust, in the hid cell beneath Their transitory step and merriment, Drifts through the air, and the sarcophagus Gains yet another crust Of useless riches for the occupant, So I, the fires that lit once dreams Now over and spent, Lie dead within four walls And so now love Rains down and so enriches some stiff case, And strews a mind with precious metaphors,

And so the space Of my still consciousness Is full of gilded snow,

The which, no cat has eyes enough To see the brightness of." Ezra Pound

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