A dead shepherd brought tremendous chords from hell<p>And b… - Wallace Stevens

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A dead shepherd brought tremendous chords from hell<p>And bad the sheep carouse. Or so they said. Children in love with them brought early flowers And scattered them about, no two alike.

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

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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.

The yellow glistens.
It glistens with various yellows,
Citrons, oranges and greens
Flowering over the skin.

You remain the more than natural figure. You Become the soft-footed phantom, the irrational<p>Distortion, however fragrant, however dear. That’s it: the more than rational distortion, The fiction that results from feeling. Yes, that.

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