LA DONZELLA BEATA: O The Philadelphia Press de 26 de Março de 1914 anunciava o casamento de Ezra Pound com Dorothy Shakespear: "Poet in love song extols his bride". Sempre com Hilda no pensamento, "Lily " Pound podia bem ter-lhe dedicado nessa altura o La Donzella Beata:
"Soul Caught in the rose hued mesh Of o'er faith earthly flesh Stooped you again to bear This Thing for me And be rare light For me, gold white In the shadowy path I tread? Surely a bolder maid art thou That one in tearful fearful longing That would wait Lily-cinctured Star-diademed at the gate Of high heaven crying that I should come To thee."
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