Now Goes Under

Ok this is somthing along time ago I got on an AP mock test and wanted to post thought it was kind of neat thought it would be a good thing to do as a last thing to Kristin yea, it's kind of dead and past but its still a decent piece of literature so here it is

Now Goes Under. . .
by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Now goes under, and I watch it go under, the sun
That will not rise again.
Today has seen the setting, in your eyes cold
and senseless as the sea,
Of friendship better than bread, and of bright charity
That lifts a man a little above the beasts that run.

That this could be!
That I should live to see
Most vulgar Pride, that stale obstrperous clown,
So fitted out with purple robe and crown
With outraged me in this once holy place,
Where Wisdom was a favoured guest and hunted
Truth was harboured out of danger,
He bulks enthroned, a lewd, and insupportable stranger!

I would have sworn, indeed I swore it:
The hills may shift, the waters may decline,
Winter may twist the stem from the twig that bore it,
But never your love from me, your hand from mine.

Now goes under the sun, and I watch it go under.
Farewell, sweet light, great wonder!
You, too farewell--but fare not well enough to dream
You have done wisely to invite the night before the darkness came.