A PACT

Name: A Pact: From Lustra - A Pact
Author: Ezra Pound

I MAKE a pact with you, Walt Whitman-

I have detested you long enough.

I come to you as a grown child

Who has had a pig-headed father;

I am old enough now to make friends.

It was you that broke the new wood,

Now is a time for carving.

We have one sap and one root-

Let there be commerce between us.

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