Merwin

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    all afternoon
    Their witless offspring flock like piped rats to its siren
    Crescendo, and agape on the crumbling ridge
    Stand in a row and learn.
    —William Stanley Merwin (b. 1927)

    Every year without knowing it I have passed the day
    When the last fires will wave to me
    —William Stanley Merwin (b. 1927)

    who should moor at his edge
    And fare on afoot would find gates of no gardens,
    But the hill of dark underfoot diving,
    Closing overhead, the cold deep, and drowning.
    He is called Leviathan, and named for rolling,
    —William Stanley Merwin (b. 1927)