Wallace Stevens - Anecdote of the Prince of Peacocks lyrics
[Wallace Stevens - Anecdote of the Prince of Peacocks lyrics]
In the moonlight i met Berserk
In the moonlight on the bushy plain
Oh, sharp he was as the sleepless!
And, "Why are you red in this milky blue?"
I said
"Why sun-colored, as if awake
In the midst of sleep?"
"You that wander" so he said
"On the bushy plain, forget so soon
But I set my traps in the midst of dreams"
I knew from this that the blue ground
Was full of blocks and blocking steel
I knew the dread of the bushy plain
And the beauty of the moonlight
Falling there, falling
As sleep falls in the innocent air
In the moonlight on the bushy plain
Oh, sharp he was as the sleepless!
And, "Why are you red in this milky blue?"
I said
"Why sun-colored, as if awake
In the midst of sleep?"
"You that wander" so he said
"On the bushy plain, forget so soon
But I set my traps in the midst of dreams"
I knew from this that the blue ground
Was full of blocks and blocking steel
I knew the dread of the bushy plain
And the beauty of the moonlight
Falling there, falling
As sleep falls in the innocent air