Hugh Selwyn MauberleyFragment IThe tea-rose tea-gown, etc.

« Hugh Selwyn Mauberley Ezra Pound Fragment I The tea-rose tea-gown, etc. Supplants the mousseline of Cos, The pianola 'replaces' Sappho's barbitos. Christ follows Dionysus, Phallic and ambrosial Made way for macerations; Caliban casts out Ariel. All things are a flowing, Sage Heracleitus says; But a tawdry cheapness Shall outlast our days. Even the Christian beauty Defects — after Samothrace; We see  Decreed in the market place. Faun's flesh is not to us, Nor the saint's vision. We have the Press for wafer; Franchise for circumcision. All men, in law, are equals. Free of Pisistratus, We choose a knave or an eunuch To rule over us. O bright Apollo,  What god, man, or hero Shall I place a tin wreath upon!. »