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Excerpt from Poems, 1947-1961 You know as well as I Darkness is not just the sun gone out of the sky. You know, too, though you may not choose to remember, Darkness as something intimate and near, Not the long nights advancing to December And then retreating slowly half a year. You too have understood: darkness can lie Behind the Observer's eye, A great darkness indeed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.