"The Surprises of the Superhuman" is a poem from Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, Harmonium.
[1] The palais de justice of chambermaids Tops the horizon with its colonnades.
For somehow the brave dicta of kings Make more awry our faulty human things.
It was extracted as "The Surprises of the Superhuman" for the second edition of Harmonium, along with "Negation"; the two poems adjoin each other near the end of the book.
Bates comments that it contrasts the bourgeois concept of justice with that suitable to "Űbermenschlichkeit".