Hymn from a Watermelon Pavilion

"Hymn From A Watermelon Pavilion" is a poem from Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, Harmonium.

[1] You dweller in the dark cabin, To whom the watermelon is always purple, Whose garden is wind and moon,

Of the two dreams, night and day, What lover, what dreamer, would choose The one obscured by sleep?

The dweller in the dark cabin may be understood to be the specifically poetical dreamer, like the old sailor in "Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock".

Doggett interprets the poem differently, without imputing a dream world explored by the poet.