LII
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And I have told you of how things were under Duke
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Leopold in Siena
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And of the true base of credit, that is
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the abundance of nature
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with the whole folk behind it.
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‘Goods that are needed’ said Schacht (anno sedici)
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commerciabili beni, deliverable things that are wanted.
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neschek is against this, the serpent
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And Vivante was there in his paradise, the mild air
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the fields rolling eastward, and the tower half ruin’d
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with a peasant complaining that her son was taken for war
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and he said ‘plutocracies were less violent’.
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Stinkschuld’s sin drawing vengeance, poor yitts paying for
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Stinkschuld
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paying for a few big jews’ vendetta on goyim
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I think wrote Miss Bell to her mama
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that when not against the interests of Empire
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we shd/ keep our pledges to Arabs.
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Thus we lived on through sanctions, through Stalin
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Litvinof, gold brokers made profit
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rocked the exchange against gold
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Before which entrefaites remarked Johnnie Adams (the elder)
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IGNORANCE, sheer ignorance ov the natr ov money
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sheer ignorance of credit and circulation.
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Remarked Ben: better keep out the jews
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or yr/ grand children will curse you
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jews, real jews, chazims, and neschek
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also super-neschek or the international racket
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specialité of the Stinkschuld
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bomb-proof under their house in Paris
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where they cd/ store aht voiks
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fat slug with three body-guards
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soiling our sea front with a pot bellied yacht in the offing,
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governments full of their gun-swine, bankbuzzards, poppinjays.
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Did commit, that he did in the Kingdom of Italy ...
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of the two usuries, the lesser is now put down.
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(“Pericles,” near the beginning.)
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that he did in the Kingdom of Britain etc/
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Between KUNG and ELEUSIS
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Or under the Golden Roof, la Dorata
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her baldacchino
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Riccio on his horse rides still to Montepulciano
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the groggy church is gone toothless
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No longer holds against neschek
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the fat has covered their croziers
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The high fans and the mitre mean nothing
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Once only in Burgos, once in Cortona
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was the song firm and well given
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old buffers keeping the stiffness,
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Gregory damned, always was damned, obscurantist.
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Know then:
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Toward summer when the sun is in Hyades
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Sovran is Lord of the Fire
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to this month are birds.
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with bitter smell and with the odour of burning
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To the hearth god, lungs of the victim
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The green frog lifts up his voice
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and the white latex is in flower
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In red car with jewels incarnadine
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to welcome the summer
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In this month no destruction
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no tree shall be cut at this time
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Wild beasts are driven from field
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in this month are simples gathered.
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The empress offers cocoons to the Son of Heaven
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Then goes the sun into Gemini
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Virgo in mid heaven at sunset
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indigo must not be cut
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No wood burnt into charcoal
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gates are all open, no tax on the booths.
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Now mares go to grazing,
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tie up the stallions
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Post up the horsebreeding notices
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Month of the longest days
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Life and death are now equal
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Strife is between light and darkness
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Wise man stays in his house
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Stag droppeth antlers
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Grasshopper is loud,
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leave no fire open to southward.
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Now the sun enters Hydra, this is the third moon of summer
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Antares of Scorpio stands mid heaven at sunset
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Andromeda is with sunrise
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Lord of the fire is dominant
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To this month is SEVEN,
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with bitter smell, with odour of burning
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Offer to gods of the hearth
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the lungs of the victims
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Warm wind is rising, cricket bideth in wall
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Young goshawk is learning his labour
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dead grass breedeth glow-worms.
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In Ming T’ang HE bideth
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in the west wing of that house
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Red car and the sorrel horses
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his banner incarnadine.
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The fish ward now goes against crocodiles
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To take all great lizards, turtles, for divination,
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sea terrapin.
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The lake warden to gather rushes
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to take grain for the manes
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to take grain for the beasts you will sacrifice
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to the Lords of the Mountains
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To the Lords of great rivers
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Inspector of dye-works, inspector of colour and broideries
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see that the white, black, green be in order
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let no false colour exist here
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black, yellow, green be of quality
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This month are trees in full sap
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Rain has now drenched all the earth
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dead weeds enrich it, as if boil’d in a bouillon.
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Sweet savour, the heart of the victim
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yellow flag over Emperor’s chariot
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yellow stones in his girdle.
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Sagittarius in mid-course at sunset
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cold wind is beginning. Dew whitens.
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Now is cicada’s time,
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the sparrow hawk offers birds to the spirits.
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Emperor goes out in war car, he is drawn by white horses,
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white banner, white stones in his girdle
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eats dog and the dish is deep.
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This month is the reign of Autumn
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Heaven is active in metals, now gather millet
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and finish the flood-walls
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Orion at sunrise.
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Horses now with black manes.
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Eat dog meat. This is the month of ramparts.
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Beans are the tribute, September is end of thunder
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The hibernants go into their caves.
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Tolls lowered, now sparrows, they say, turn into oysters
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The wolf now offers his sacrifice.
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Men hunt with five weapons,
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They cut wood for charcoal.
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New rice with your dog meat.
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First month of winter is now
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sun is in Scorpio’s tail
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at sunrise in Hydra, ice starting
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The pheasant plunges into Houai (great water)
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and turns to an oyster
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Rainbow is hidden awhile.
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Heaven’s Son feeds on roast pork and millet,
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Steel gray are stallion.
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This month winter ruleth.
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The sun is in archer’s shoulder
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in crow’s head at sunrise
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Ice thickens. Earth cracks. And the tigers now move to mating.
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Cut trees at solstice, and arrow shafts of bamboo.
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Third month, wild geese go north,
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magpie starts building,
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Pheasant lifteth his voice to the Spirit of Mountains
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The fishing season is open,
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rivers and lakes frozen deep
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Put now ice in your ice-house,
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the great concert of winds
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Call things by the names. Good sovereign by distribution
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Evil king is known by his imposts.
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Begin where you are said Lord Palmerston
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began draining swamps in Sligo
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Fought smoke nuisance in London. Dredged harbour in Sligo.
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