TESTO DEL LIED

"Said King Pompey"
di Edith Sitwell (1887-1964)

Said King Pompey,
the emperor's ape
Shuddering black in his
temporal cape
Of dust: "The dust is everything -
The heart to love
And the voice to sing
Indianapolis,
And the Acropolis,
Also the hairy sky that we
Take for a coverlet comfortably." ...
Said the Bishop
Eating his ketchup
"There still remains Eternity
(Swelling the diocese) -
That elephantiasis
The flunkeyed and trumpeting Sea!"