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proximoceptionThe splendours of the intellect's advance,
The sweetness of the home with babes and wife;
The social pleasures with their genial wit:
The fascination of the worlds of art,
The glories of the worlds of nature, lit
By large imagination's glowing heart;
The rapture of mere being, full of health;
The careless childhood and the ardent youth,
The strenuous manhood winning various wealth,
The reverend age serene with life's long truth:
All the sublime prerogatives of Man;
The storied memories of the times of old,
The patient tracking of the world's great plan
Through sequences and changes myriadfold.
Far, far out of context piece of "The City of Dreadful Night." I'd presumed Stevens got the phrase "of mere being" from Hegel or Jung, but who can say? Reminds me a bit of the Rossi litany that's epigraph to "Evening Without Angels."
The sweetness of the home with babes and wife;
The social pleasures with their genial wit:
The fascination of the worlds of art,
The glories of the worlds of nature, lit
By large imagination's glowing heart;
The rapture of mere being, full of health;
The careless childhood and the ardent youth,
The strenuous manhood winning various wealth,
The reverend age serene with life's long truth:
All the sublime prerogatives of Man;
The storied memories of the times of old,
The patient tracking of the world's great plan
Through sequences and changes myriadfold.
Far, far out of context piece of "The City of Dreadful Night." I'd presumed Stevens got the phrase "of mere being" from Hegel or Jung, but who can say? Reminds me a bit of the Rossi litany that's epigraph to "Evening Without Angels."
