<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div id="poem-top" class="active tab-content" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto;"><h1 class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 10px 0px 3px; padding: 0px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101" size="3" style="font-weight: normal;">Hymn from a Watermelon Pavilion</font></h1></div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;"></span></font><div id="poem" class="active tab-content" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto;"><div class="poem" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 24px; margin: 25px 0px 0px;"><div class="" style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101">You dweller in the dark cabin,</font></div><div class="" style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101">To whom the watermelon is always purple, </font></div><div class="" style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101">Whose garden is wind and moon,</font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101"><br class=""></font><div class="" style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101">Of the two dreams, night and day,</font></div><div class="" style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101">What lover, what dreamer, would choose </font></div><div class="" style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101">The one obscured by sleep?</font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101"><br class=""></font><div class="" style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101">Here is the plantain by your door </font></div><div class="" style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101">And the best cock of red feather </font></div><div class="" style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101">That crew before the clocks.</font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101"><br class=""></font><div class="" style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101">A feme may come, leaf-green, </font></div><div class="" style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101">Whose coming may give revel </font></div><div class="" style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101">Beyond revelries of sleep,</font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101"><br class=""></font><div class="" style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101">Yes, and the blackbird spread its tail, </font></div><div class="" style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101">So that the sun may speckle, </font></div><div class="" style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101">While it creaks hail.</font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101"><br class=""></font><div class="" style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101">You dweller in the dark cabin, </font></div><div class="" style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101">Rise, since rising will not waken, </font></div><div class="" style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101">And hail, cry hail, cry hail.</font></div><div class="" style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101"><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Wallace Stevens</font></div></div></div><br class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">“Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.”</div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Wendell Berry</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div class="">
<div class=""><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
</div>
<br class=""></body></html>