Wallace Stevens - Waving Adieu, Adieu, Adieu lyrics
[Wallace Stevens - Waving Adieu, Adieu, Adieu lyrics]
That would be waving and
That would be crying
Crying and shouting and meaning farewell
Farewell in the eyes and
Farewell at the centre
Just to stand still without moving a hand
In a world without heaven to follow
The stops would be endings, more poignant
Than partings, profounder
And that would be saying
Farewell, repeating farewell
Just to be there and just to behold
To be one’s singular self, to despise
The being that yielded so little, acquired
So little, too little to care, to turn
To the ever-jubilant weather, to sip
One’s cup and never to say a word
Or to sleep or just to lie there still
Just to be there, just to be beheld
That would be bidding farewell
Be bidding farewell
One likes to practice the
Thing they practice
Enough, for heaven ever-jubilant
What is there here but weather, what spirit
Have I except it comes from the sun?
That would be crying
Crying and shouting and meaning farewell
Farewell in the eyes and
Farewell at the centre
Just to stand still without moving a hand
In a world without heaven to follow
The stops would be endings, more poignant
Than partings, profounder
And that would be saying
Farewell, repeating farewell
Just to be there and just to behold
To be one’s singular self, to despise
The being that yielded so little, acquired
So little, too little to care, to turn
To the ever-jubilant weather, to sip
One’s cup and never to say a word
Or to sleep or just to lie there still
Just to be there, just to be beheld
That would be bidding farewell
Be bidding farewell
One likes to practice the
Thing they practice
Enough, for heaven ever-jubilant
What is there here but weather, what spirit
Have I except it comes from the sun?