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The Revolutionists stop for Orangeade is a poem from the second 1931edition of Wallace Stevens’s first book of poetryHarmonium.Although the poem’s title is not atypical in being gaudy it may be anexception to the rule that the titles of Stevens’s poems are notguides to their content. The revolutionists are imploringtheir leader to let them stop singing in the sun or at least toresume singing in the shade.