18 Feb 2019: "The Return" by Ezra Pound

See, they return; ah, see the tentative 
Movements, and the slow feet, 
The trouble in the pace and the uncertain 
Wavering! 
 
See, they return, one, and by one,         
With fear, as half-awakened; 
As if the snow should hesitate 
And murmur in the wind, 
            and half turn back; 
These were the “Wing’d-with-Awe,"         
            inviolable. 
 
Gods of the wingèd shoe! 
With them the silver hounds, 
            sniffing the trace of air! 
 
Haie! Haie!         
    These were the swift to harry; 
These the keen-scented; 
These were the souls of blood. 
 
Slow on the leash, 
            pallid the leash-men!