Ezra Pound: The black panther lies under his rose-tree

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Black Leopard (Panthera pardus): photo by Qilinmon, 2007

The black panther lies under his rose-tree.
J'ai pitié des autres.
...........Pas assez! Pas assez!
For me nothing. But that the child
.....walk in peace in her basilica,
the light there almost solid.

Grandidier's Baobab (Adansonia grandidieri) near Morondava, Madgascar: photo by Bernard Gagnon, 2007

Ezra Pound, from Canto XCIII (1954) in Section: Rock-Drill De Los Cantares LXXXV-XCV (1955)