<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;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">Nocturne</span><div style="font-size: 22px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The stars emerge one</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">by one into the names</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">that were last found for them</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">far back in other</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">darkness no one remembers</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">by watchers whose own</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">names were forgotten</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">later in the dark</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">and as the night deepens</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">other lumens begin</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">to appear around them</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">as though they were shining</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">through the same instant</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">from a single depth of age</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">though the time between</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">each one of them</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">and its nearest neighbor</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">contains in its span</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">the whole moment of the earth</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">turning in a light</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">that is not its own</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">with the complete course</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">of life upon it</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">born to brief reflection</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">recognition and anguish</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">from one cell evolving</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">to remember daylight</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">laughter and distant music</span></div><div style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- W.S. Merwin</span></div></div></body></html>