“Snow, snow over the whole land
across all boundaries.
The candle burned on the table,
the candle burned.”
As translated by Richard McKane (1985)
Doctor Zhivago (1957)
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Wallace Stevens book Harmonium
"Valley Candle"
Harmonium (1923)
Context: My candle burned alone in an immense valley.
Beams of the huge night converged upon it,
Until the wind blew.
Then beams of the huge night
Converged upon its image,
Until the wind blew.
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Source: Moby-Dick or, The Whale