NIGHT STONES AND THE QUICK EARTH

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0Perhaps the clue is here:02br 02br 01table 01tr 01td 01font 01b 00You, Andrew Marvell02b 02br 02font 02td 01td 02br 02td 02tr 02table 00 01table 01tr 01td 00 02td 01td 01font 00 And here face down beneath the sun02br 00And here upon earth's noonward height02br 00To feel the always coming on02br 00The always rising of the night:02br 02br 00To feel creep up the curving east02br 00The earthy chill of dusk and slow02br 00Upon those under lands the vast02br 00And ever climbing shadow grow02br 02br 00And strange at Ecbatan the trees02br 00Take leaf by leaf the evening strange02br 00The flooding dark about their knees02br 00The mountains over Persia change02br 02br 00And now at Kermanshah the gate02br 00Dark empty and the withered grass02br 00And through the twilight now the late02br 00Few travelers in the westward pass02br 02br 00And Baghdad darken and the bridge02br 00Across the silent river gone02br 00And through Arabia the edge02br 00Of evening widen and steal on02br 02br 00And deepen on Palmyra's street02br 00The wheel rut in the ruined stone02br 00And Lebanon fade out and Crete02br 00high through the clouds and overblown02br 02br 00And over Sicily the air02br 00Still flashing with the landward gulls02br 00And loom and slowly disappear02br 00The sails above the shadowy hulls02br 02br 00And Spain go under and the shore02br 00Of Africa the gilded sand02br 00And evening vanish and no more02br 00The low pale light across that land02br 02br 00Nor now the long light on the sea:02br 02br 00And here face downward in the sun02br 00To feel how swift how secretly02br 00The shadow of the night comes on... 02br 02br 01b 00Archibald MacLeish02b 02font 00 02td 02tr 02table 0-

— Mister Micawber