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To: N who wrote (5301)3/17/2000 2:46:00 PM
From: Volsi Mimir  Respond to of 13018
 
Not Ideas About the Thing But the Thing Itself
~Wallace Stevens

At the earliest ending of winter,
In March, a scrawny cry from outside
Seemed like a sound in his mind.

He knew that he heard it,
A bird's cry, at daylight or before,
In the early March wind.

The sun was rising at six,
No longer a battered panache above snow...
It would have been outside.

It was not from the vast ventriloquism
Of sleep's faded papier-mache...
The sun was coming from outside.

That scrawny cry- it was
A chorister whose c preceded the choir.
It was part of the colossal sun,

Surrounded by its choral rings,
Still far away. It was like
A new knowledge of reality.

~.~

Oh, how cruelly sweet are the echoes that start when memory
plays an old tune on the heart!

~Eliza Cook
1818-1889
British Poet