the return

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!

[(from "The Return") Personae]Copyright (c) 1926, 1935, 1971 Ezra Pound