The Always Rising Of The Night

and here
face down
beneath the sun
and here
upon earth's
noonward height
to feel
the always
coming on
the always
rising of
the night

to feel
creep up
the curving east
the earthy chill
of dusk and slow
upon these
underlands
the vast
and everclimbing shadow grow

--archibald macleish (from "you, andrew marvell ")