<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><font face="Helvetica" class="">To The New Year</font></div><div class=""><font face="Helvetica" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><div class="o-vr o-vr_12x"><div class="c-feature"><div class="c-feature-sub_vast c-feature-sub"></div><div class="c-feature-bd"><div class="o-poem isActive" data-view="PoemView"><div class="" style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;"><font face="Helvetica" class="">With what stillness at last<br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;"><font face="Helvetica" class="">you appear in the valley<br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;"><font face="Helvetica" class="">your first sunlight reaching down<br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;"><font face="Helvetica" class="">to touch the tips of a few<br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;"><font face="Helvetica" class="">high leaves that do not stir<br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;"><font face="Helvetica" class="">as though they had not noticed<br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;"><font face="Helvetica" class="">and did not know you at all<br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;"><font face="Helvetica" class="">then the voice of a dove calls<br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;"><font face="Helvetica" class="">from far away in itself<br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;"><font face="Helvetica" class="">to the hush of the morning<br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;"><font face="Helvetica" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;"><font face="Helvetica" class="">so this is the sound of you<br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;"><font face="Helvetica" class="">here and now whether or not<br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;"><font face="Helvetica" class="">anyone hears it this is<br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;"><font face="Helvetica" class="">where we have come with our age<br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;"><font face="Helvetica" class="">our knowledge such as it is<br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;"><font face="Helvetica" class="">and our hopes such as they are<br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;"><font face="Helvetica" class="">invisible before us<br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;"><font face="Helvetica" class="">untouched and still possible<br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;"><font face="Helvetica" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;"><font face="Helvetica" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- </font>W.S. Merwin.</div><div class=""><font face="Helvetica" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Helvetica" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Helvetica" class=""><br class=""></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>