Poem: “The Virgin Carrying a Lantern” by Wallace Stevens

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The Virgin Carrying a Lantern

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There are no bears among the roses,
Only a negress who supposes
Things false and wrong

About the lantern of the beauty
Who walks, there, as a farewell duty,
Walks long and long.

The pity that her pious egress
Should fill the vigil of a negress
With heat so strong!

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