“Bethou me, said sparrow, to the crackled blade,
And you, and you, bethou me as you blow,
When in my coppice you behold me be.”

— Wallace Stevens

Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Change

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American poet 1879–1955

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