2013-09-01 – Poets Ride

My thanks also to Alex and Dan for organizing the ride and preparing spoke cards and poetry booklet.
It was a perfect excursion for a late summer Sunday.

*The Return
by Ezra Pound *

See, they return; ah, see the tentative
Movements, and the slow feet,
The trouble in the pace and the uncertain
Wavering!

See, they return, one, and by one,
With fear, as half-awakened;
As if the snow should hesitate
And murmur in the wind,

        and half turn back;    

These were the "Wing'd-with-Awe,"

        inviolable.    

Gods of the wingèd shoe!
With them the silver hounds,

        sniffing the trace of air!    

Haie! Haie!

These were the swift to harry;    

These the keen-scented;
These were the souls of blood.

Slow on the leash,

        pallid the leash-men!