Yet voluble of dumb violence. You look Across the roofs as sigil and as ward And in your centre mark them and are cowed... (Wallace Stevens)

Yet voluble of dumb violence. You look Across the roofs as sigil and as ward And in your centre mark them and are cowed...

Wallace Stevens

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