“Bethou him, you
And you, bethou him and bethou. It is
A sound like any other. It will end.”

—  Wallace Stevens

Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Change
Context: Eye without lid, mind without any dream —These are of minstrels lacking minstrelsy,
Of an earth in which the first leaf is the tale
Of leaves, in which the sparrow is a birdOf stone, that never changes. Bethou him, you
And you, bethou him and bethou. It is
A sound like any other. It will end.

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