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I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill.

Wallace Stevens
Art, Nature, Tennessee
"Anecdote of the Jar" l. 1 (1923)
I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill.