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“Tea” by
Wallace Stevens
🇺🇸
(
2 Oct 1879
–
2 Aug 1955
)
When the elephant’s-ear in the park
Shrivelled in frost,
And the leaves on the paths
Ran like rats,
Your lamp-light fell
On shining pillows,
Of sea-shades and sky-shades
Like umbrellas in Java.