Fading Sun

Why fade these children of the spring? born but to smile & fall.
Ah! Thel is like a watery bow, and like a parting cloud;
Like a reflection in a glass; like shadows in the water;
Like dreams of infants,like a smile upon an infants face;
Like the doves voice;like transient day;like music in the air;
Ah! gentle may I lay me down, and gentle rest my head.
And gentle sleep the sleep of death
---Blake

Coined there among
Lonely horizontals
You exist openly.
Our needs hourly
Climb and return like angels.
Unclosing like a hand,
You give for ever.
---Larkin, from 'Solar'

Things are going to slide, slide in all directions.
Won't be nothing
Nothing you can measure any more.
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world
has crossed the threshold
And it has overturned
the order of the soul.
---Leonard Cohen (courtesy of Jonah)