The Virgin Carrying a Lantern
Wallace Stevens
1879 to 1955
There are no bears among the roses,
Only a negress who supposes
Things false and wrong
About the lantern of the beauty
Who walks there, as a farewell duty,
Walks long and long.
The pity that her pious egress
Should fill the vigil of a negress
With heat so strong!
Wallace Stevens's The Virgin Carrying a Lantern
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