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Слушать(AI)Metaphors of a Magnifico
Twenty men crossing a bridge,
Into a village,
Are twenty men crossing twenty bridges,
Into twenty villages,
Or one
Crossing a single bridge into a village.
This is old
That will not declare itself . . .
Twenty men crossing a bridge,
Into a village,
Twenty men crossing a
Into a village.
That will not declare
Yet is certain as meaning . . .
The boots of the men
On the boards of the bridge.
The first white wall of the
Rises through fruit-trees.
Of what was it I was thinking?
So the meaning escapes.
The first white wall of the village…The fruit-trees…
Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was an American modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and
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