And here face down beneath the
And here upon earth's noonward
To feel the always coming
The always rising of the night:
To feel creep up the curving
The earthy chill of dusk and
Upon those under lands the
And ever climbing shadow
And strange at Ecbatan the
Take leaf by leaf the evening
The flooding dark about their
The mountains over Persia change And now at Kermanshah the
Dark empty and the withered
And through the twilight now the
Few travelers in the westward
And Baghdad darken and the
Across the silent river
And through Arabia the
Of evening widen and steal
And deepen on Palmyra's
The wheel rut in the ruined
And Lebanon fade out and Cretehigh through the clouds and
And over Sicily the
Still flashing with the landward
And loom and slowly
The sails above the shadowy
And Spain go under and the
Of Africa the gilded
And evening vanish and no
The low pale light across that
Nor now the long light on the sea:
And here face downward in the
To feel how swift how
The shadow of the night comes on…
