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Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)


		In the Carolinas

	The lilacs wither in the Carolinas.
	Already the butterflies flutter above the cabins.
	Already the new-born children interpret love
	In the voices of mothers.

	Timeless mothers,
	How is it that your aspic nipples
	For once vent honey?

	The pine-tree sweetens my body
	The white iris beautifies me.

	[(from Harmonium, 1923, 1931)
	The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, 1982]
	Copyright (c) 1923, 1931, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1942, 1943, 1944,
	1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1954 Wallace Stevens

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I've compiled the above information referring to some standard reference materials, including The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry, Grolier Encyclopedia, etc.


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