The night knows nothing of the chants of night

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The night knows nothing of the chants of night.

It is what it is as I am what I am:

And in perceiving this I best perceive myself

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And you. Only we two may interchange

Each in the other what each has to give.

Only we two are one, not you and night,

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Nor night and I, but you and I, alone,

So much alone, so deeply by ourselves,

So far beyond the casual solitudes,

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That night is only the background of our selves,

Supremely true each to its separate self,

In the pale light that each upon the other throws.

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~ Wallace Stevens

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