<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539382" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Codex</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was a late book given up for lost <br>again and again with its sentences</div><div style="margin:10px 0">bare at last and phrases that seemed transparent <br>revealing what had been there the whole way</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the poems of daylight after the day <br>lying open at last on the table</div><div style="margin:10px 0">without explanation or emphasis <br>like sounds left when the syllables have gone</div><div style="margin:10px 0">clarifying the whole grammar of waiting <br>not removing one question from the air</div><div style="margin:10px 0">or closing the story although single lights <br>were beginning by then above and below</div><div style="margin:10px 0">while the long twilight deepened its silence <br>from sapphire through opal to Athena’s iris</div><div style="margin:10px 0">until shadow covered the gray pages <br>the comet words the book of presences</div><div style="margin:10px 0">after which there was little left to say <br>but then it was night and everything was known</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From 'The Shadow Of Sirius'<br>Publisher: Copper Canyon Press (September 1, 2008)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Stanley+Merwin">William Stanley Merwin</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539382" data-title="A Codex de William Stanley Merwin" data-description="It was a late book given up for lost again and again with its sentences bare at last and phrases that seemed transparent revealing what had been there the whole way the poems of daylight after the day lying open at last on the table without ..."></div> </div> </div>

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