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D. H. Lawrence

Darkness comes out of the earth
  And swallows dip into the pallor of the west;
From the hay comes the clamour of children’s mirth;
  Wanes the old palimpsest.

The night-stock oozes scent,
  And a moon-blue moth goes flittering by:
All that the worldly day has meant
  Wastes like a lie.

The children have forsaken their play;
  A single star in a veil of light
Glimmers: litter of day
  Is gone from sight.

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From New Poems | B. W. Huebsch, 1918

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