SalutationAuthor(s): Ezra PoundSource: Poetry, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Apr., 1913), p. 6Published by: Poetry FoundationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20569742 .

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POETRY: A Magazine of Verse

There is none like thee among the dancers; None with swift feet.

SALUTATION

O generation of the thoroughly smug and thoroughly uncomfortable,

I have seen fishermen picnicking in the sun, I have seen them with untidy families, I have seen their smiles full of teeth

and heard ungainly laughter.

And I am happier than you are, And they were happier than I am; And the fish swim in the lake

and do not even own clothing.

SALUTATION THE SECOND

You were praised, my books, because I had just come from the country;

I was twenty years behind the times so you found an audience ready.

I do not disown you, do not you disown your progeny.

Here they stand without quaint devices, Here they are with nothing archaic about them.

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