“These
Are the music of meet resignation; these
The responsive, still sustaining pomps for you
To magnify, if in that drifting waste
You are to be accompanied by more
Than mute bare splendors of the sun and moon.”

—  Wallace Stevens , book Harmonium

"On the Manner of Addressing Clouds"
Harmonium (1923)

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American poet 1879–1955

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