<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The Eternal Return</span><br><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Because it is not here it is eternal</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">the stars we consider have long been gone</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">I cannot recall what I was saying</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">while clouds melted over the morning sea</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">here is the same child without a childhood</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">the whole sentence present in the last word</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">and the morning of what I do not know</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">brings back everything that I remember</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">even what is gone and I know it is gone</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">and know I will never look on it again</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">appears to me once more almost complete</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">in its own time and then gone again</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">it was watching over me while I slept</span><br><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- W. S. Merwin</span></div></body></html>