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Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.

The Curtains in the House of the Metaphysician

Wallace Stevens

IT comes about that the drifting of these curtains

Is full of long motions; as the ponderous

Deflations of distance; or as clouds

Inseparable from their afternoons;

Or the changing of light, the dropping

Of the silence, wide sleep and solitude

Of night, in which all motion

Is beyond us, as the firmament,

Up-rising and down-falling, bares

The last largeness, bold to see.