Wallace Stevens - Hibiscus on the Sleeping Shores lyrics

[Wallace Stevens - Hibiscus on the Sleeping Shores lyrics]

I say now, Fernando, that on that day
The mind roamed as a moth roams
Among the blooms beyond the open sand

And that whatever noise the
Motion of the waves
Made on the seaweeds and the covered stones
Disturbed not even the most idle ear

Then it was that that monstered moth
Which had lain folded against the blue
And the colored purple of the lazy sea

And which had drowsed along the bony shores
Shut to the blather that the water made
Rose up besprent and sought the flaming red

Dabbled with yellow pollen red as red
As the flag above the old cafe
And roamed there all the stupid afternoon

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