crime seen {land grab} all tied up
in a bloody bow

Pull down thy vanity, I say pull down.

Learn of the green world what can be thy place

In scaled invention or true artistry,

Pull down thy vanity...

Pull down thy vanity

                        How mean thy hates

Fostered in falsity,

                        Pull down thy vanity,

Rathe to destroy, niggard in charity,

Pull down thy vanity,

                       I say pull down.


cantoLXXXI
ezra pound 


*kids, it ain't common,  it's archaic and litterary. so lemme say rathe means:

1. (of a person or their actions) prompt and eager.

   • (of flowers or fruit) blooming or ripening early in the year.

     also, coming before others, also expand. like, empire, kids. it's rathe to destroy.

     they call it creative destruction. it creates destruction, see?