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

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