a lesson by Ezra Pound
for Simon Tost
on Numbers
The earth revolves
around a central fire.
Water is
the source of all things.
All things are created
in accordance with number.
Its doors are the mysteries.
A scrap here, a scrap there:
nothing exists.
All is from number.
All is from a rain
unless I have missed an exception.
Pythagoras
imposed five years silence.
You have a concentration of treasures.
Don’t borrow money.
Numbers are the source
of all things.