Constable John Stevens

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    I do love thee as each flower
    Loves the sun’s life-giving power,
    For, dead, thy breath to life might move me.
    —Henry Constable (1562–1613)

    Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
    —Bible: New Testament St. John the Divine, in Revelation, 2:10.

    Politic man ordained
    Imagination as the fateful sin.
    Grandmother and her basketful of pears
    Must be the crux for our compendia.
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)