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Darkness had stretched its colour,
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Deep blue across the pane:
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0No cloud to make night duller,
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0No moon with its tarnish stain;
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0But only here and there a star,
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0One sharp point of frosty fire,
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Hanging infinitely far
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In mockery of our life and death
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And all our small desire.
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Now in this hour of waking
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0From under brows of stone,
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A new pale day is breaking
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And the deep night is gone.
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Sordid now, and mean and small
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The daylight world is seen again,
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0With only the veils of mist that fall
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Deaf and muffling over all
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0To hide its ugliness and pain.
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0But to-day this dawn of meanness
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Shines in my eyes, as when
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The new world’s brightness and cleanness
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Broke on the first of men.
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0For the light that shows the huddled things
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Of this close-pressing earth,
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Shines also on your face and brings
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0All its dear beauty back to me
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In a new miracle of birth.
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I see you asleep and unimpassioned,
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0White-faced in the dusk of your hair–
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Your beauty so fleetingly fashioned
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0That it filled me once with despair
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0To look on its exquisite transience
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And think that our love and thought and laughter
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Puff out with the death of our flickering sense,
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0While we pass ever on and away
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Towards some blank hereafter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u00a0 But now I am happy, knowing
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0That swift time is our friend,
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And that our love’s passionate glowing,
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Though it turn ash in the end,
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Is a rose of fire that must blossom its way
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Through temporal stuff, nor else could be
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0More than a nothing. Into day
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The boundless spaces of night contract
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And in your opening eyes I see
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Night born in day, &, in time, eternity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
— Aldous Leonard Huxley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Darkness had stretched its colour,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Deep blue across the pane:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0No cloud to make night duller,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0No moon with its tarnish stain;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0But only here and there a star,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0One sharp point of frosty fire,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Hanging infinitely far\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In mockery of our life and death\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And all our small desire. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Now in this hour of waking\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0From under brows of stone,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A new pale day […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[9,8,10],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poems","tag-hints","tag-poetry","tag-void"],"yoast_head":"\n