Un Pacte.(Translation) . Poem by Michael Walker

See Poem Hunter/ Ezra Pound/ 5/250 for the English. I used 'Ezra Pound. Selected Poems 1908-1959', p.45.

'A Pact' is addressed to the prominent American nineteenth-century poet, Walt Whitman (1819-1892) , whose work Pound used to dislike, but now he wants to be friends with Whitman: Pound acknowledges that Whitman broke new ground in American poetry by writing so expansively of the U.S.A., 'these states' and about his own inner self, in a way that no one had done before. Whitman's long poem 'Song of Myself' is exciting to read again and again, I found a few years ago. Pound, who is similar yet also different from Whitman, concludes: 'Let there be commerce between us'.