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
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