The Twenty-Sixth Canto opens promisingly:

And
          I came here in my young youth
                         and lay there under the crocodile
          By the column, looking East on the Friday,
And I said: Tomorrow I will lie on the South side
And the day after, south west.

But then Pound goes on to indulge in his habit of writing out epistolary Renaissance era logistics.

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