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Carrol, you are the expert, but the following you sent from Pound _is_ dreary. It sure ain't happy.
Charles ^^^^^^ From: Carrol Cox
And because that son of a bitch,
Franz Josef of Austria. . . . . . And because that son of a bitch Napoleon Barbiche... They put him on Hill 70, in a trench
dug through corpses With a lot of kids of sixteen, Howling and crying for their mamas, And he sent a chit back to his major:
I can hold out for ten minutes With my sergeant and a machine-gun.
And they rebuked him for levity. And Henri Gaudier went to it,
and they killed him, And killed a good deal of sculpture, . . . .
(Canto XVI)
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"Dreary" -- you've got to be kidding.