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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
COMES NOW THE DUSK, by D. SANIAL GILL
First Line: Comes now the slow, unstayable release
Last Line: Should, softly, as the dusk comes, close the breath.
Subject(s): Dusk
First Line: Comes now the slow, unstayable release
Last Line: Should, softly, as the dusk comes, close the breath.
Subject(s): Dusk
Comes now the slow, unstayable release
From day, -- the impalpable inflow of night;
The truth of stars no longer hid by light;
The induction into the undreamable abyss.
Comes now the exalted hour wherein to drink
With grateful laughter a toast to life's defeat:
The earth-stripped hour of spirit, humble-sweet, --
Human residuum at the eternal brink.
Comes now the hour when men in silence feel
The awful puissance of the Cosmic Wheel:
The statured Ego shrunken to the dust
Before the imminent, unknowable MUST;
But this for comfort: inevitable death
Should, softly, as the dusk comes, close the breath.
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