Wallace Stevens - Autumn Refrain lyrics
[Wallace Stevens - Autumn Refrain lyrics]
The skreak and skritter of evening gone
And grackles gone and sorrows of the sun
The sorrows of sun, too, gone the
Moon and moon, the yellow moon of words
About the nightingale
In measureless measures, not a bird for me
But the name of a bird and
The name of a nameless air
I have never shall never hear and yet beneath
The stillness of everything gone
And being still
Being and sitting still, something resides
Some skreaking and skrittering residuum
And grates these evasions of the nightingale
Though I have never shall
Never hear that bird
And the stillness is in the
Key, all of it is
The stillness is all in the
Key of that desolate sound
And grackles gone and sorrows of the sun
The sorrows of sun, too, gone the
Moon and moon, the yellow moon of words
About the nightingale
In measureless measures, not a bird for me
But the name of a bird and
The name of a nameless air
I have never shall never hear and yet beneath
The stillness of everything gone
And being still
Being and sitting still, something resides
Some skreaking and skrittering residuum
And grates these evasions of the nightingale
Though I have never shall
Never hear that bird
And the stillness is in the
Key, all of it is
The stillness is all in the
Key of that desolate sound