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Ezra Pound

What thou lovest well remains,                                                  the rest is drossWhat thou lov’st well shall not be reft from theeWhat thou lov’st well is thy true heritage — Ezra Pound, from “Canto LXXXI,” Cantos of Ezra Pound (New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1993

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