One’s grand flights, one’s Sunday baths,
One’s tootings at the weddings of the soul
Occur as they occur.

In these lines Stevens juxtaposes the exalted and the ordinary—“grand flights” (imagination, aspiration) beside “Sunday baths” (routine bodily maintenance)—and then folds both into a strangely ceremonial image, “tootings at the weddings of the soul,” suggesting private moments of self-renewal or inner celebration. The closing refrain, “Occur as they occur,” stresses contingency: such episodes are not fully willed or schedulable but happen in their own time, like weather or inspiration. The effect is both comic and metaphysical, characteristic of Stevens’s tendency to treat spiritual or imaginative experience as something embedded in daily life yet resistant to moralizing control.