Song, por Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens

Song

There are great things doing

In the world,

Little rabbit.

There is a damsel,

Sweeter than the sound of the willow,

Dearer than shallow water

Flowing over pebbles.

Of a Sunday,

She wears a long coat,

With twelve buttons on it.

Tell that to your mother.

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