Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour
Light the first light of evening
In which we rest and, for small reason,
think the world imagined
is the ultimate good.
This is, therefore,
the intensest rendezvous.
It is in that thought
that we collect ourselves,
Out of all the indifferences,
into one thing:
Within a single thing, a single shawl
Wrapped tightly round us,
since we are poor, a warmth,
A light, a power,
the miraculous influence.
Here, now, we forget each other
and ourselves.
We feel the obscurity of an order,
a whole, a knowledge,
that which arranged the rendezvous.
Within its vital boundary,
in the mind.
We say God and the imagination are one...
How high that highest candle
lights the dark.
Out of this same light,
out of the central mind,
We make a dwelling in the evening air,
In which being there together
is enough.
Wallace Stevens
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