[{"node":{"title":"Greacen030","Collections":"Unpublished Poems","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"19 Jan","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Greacen030","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Night now","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacen030","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Greacen030_0.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffNight Now\n\nNight now; all London\u2019 s varnished over with the dark;\nDark now, dark as the buried and unseeing root,\nAnd as the cowering earth-worm dark ...\nThe green leaves shudder in the everning, chilled\nHostages in a giant city, skeletal and bare\nOf love. 0 exiled one in this leprous time\nWalking the damply grey and heedless streets\nWith not an echo in the wide and thoughtless world\nNow render up your strange, innocent, cleansing light!\nNor else can cure nor wake the shuttered eye;\nSo prisoned in the bewitched dark\nSee now all summer glide away in a deep trance;\nGoodbye the loveliness, goodbye the ache\nFor other summers lost long centuries ago.\nThen let us choose another time to dance.\n","Type":"Text"}}]