How to Live. What to Do

Wallace Stevens

1879 to 1955

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To seek a sun of fuller fire.
Instead there was this tufted rock
There was neither voice nor crested image,
Joyous and jubilant and sure.
To rest before the heroic height.
Massively rising high and bare
Like giant arms among the clouds.
Beyond all trees, the ridges thrown
The man and his companion stopped
It made, away from the muck of the land
In many majesties of sound:
And the two of them standing still to rest.
There was the cold wind and the sound
They that had left the flame-freaked sun
Impure upon a world unpurged:
Only the great height of the rock
Last evening the moon rose above this rock
Coldly the wind fell upon them
That they had left, heroic sound
No chorister, nor priest. There was