This was their ceremonial hymn: Anon We loved but would no … - Wallace Stevens

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This was their ceremonial hymn: Anon We loved but would no marriage make. Anon The one refused the other one to take,<p> Foreswore the sipping of the marriage wine.

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Wallace Stevens (2 October 1879 – 2 August 1955) was an American modernist poet and businessman.

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Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her,
Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams
And our desires.

In solitude the trumpets of solitude Are not of another solitude resounding; A little string speaks for a crowd of voices.

Abysmal instruments make sounds like pips Of the sweeping meanings that we add to them.

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