The Needle

by

Ezra Pound


Come, or the stellar tide will slip away.

Eastward avoid the hour of its decline,

Now! for the needle trembles in my soul!


Here have we had the vantage, the good hour.

Here we have had our day, your day and mine.

Come now, before this power

That bears us up, shall turn against the pole.

Mock not the flood of stars, the thing's to be.

O Love, come now, this land turns evil slowly.

The waves bore in, soon will they bear away.


The treasure is ours, make we fast land with it.

Move we and take the tide, with its next favour,

Abide

Under some neutral force

Until this course turneth aside.



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