On a blue island in a sky-wide water The wild orange trees … - Wallace Stevens

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On a blue island in a sky-wide water The wild orange trees continued to bloom and to bear, Long after the planter’s death.

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

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