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For all this sea-hoard of deciduous things,
Strange woods half sodden, and new brighter stuff:
In the slow float of differing light and deep,
No! there is nothing! In the whole and all,
Nothing that's quite your own.
Yet this is you.

Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound (1885–1972), U.S. poet. Portrait d'une Femme (l. 25–30). . .

The Selected Poems of Ezra Pound. (1957) New Directions.

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