<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour</div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Light the first light of evening, as in a room<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Lucida Grande";" class=""><br class="">
</span>In which we rest and, for small reason, think<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Lucida Grande";" class=""><br class="">
</span>The world imagined is the ultimate good. <span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Lucida Grande";" class=""><br class="">
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</span>This is, therefore, the intensest rendezvous.<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Lucida Grande";" class=""><br class="">
</span>It is in that thought that we collect ourselves,<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Lucida Grande";" class=""><br class="">
</span>Out of all the indifferences, into one thing: <span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Lucida Grande";" class=""><br class="">
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</span>Within a single thing, a single shawl<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Lucida Grande";" class=""><br class="">
</span>Wrapped tightly round us, since we are poor, a warmth,<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Lucida Grande";" class=""><br class="">
</span>A light, a power, the miraculous influence. <span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Lucida Grande";" class=""><br class="">
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</span>Here, now, we forget each other and ourselves.<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Lucida Grande";" class=""><br class="">
</span>We feel the obscurity of an order, a whole,<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Lucida Grande";" class=""><br class="">
</span>A knowledge, that which arranged the rendezvous. <span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Lucida Grande";" class=""><br class="">
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</span>Within its vital boundary, in the mind.<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Lucida Grande";" class=""><br class="">
</span>We say God and the imagination are one...<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Lucida Grande";" class=""><br class="">
</span>How high that highest candle lights the dark. <span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Lucida Grande";" class=""><br class="">
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</span>Out of this same light, out of the central mind,<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Lucida Grande";" class=""><br class="">
</span>We make a dwelling in the evening air,<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Lucida Grande";" class=""><br class="">
</span>In which being there together is enough.</p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Wallace Stevens</div></div>
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