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Theodore Roethke - In a dark time, the eye begins to see
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Theodore Roethke – Collected Poems
In a dark time, the eye begins to see
What’s madness but nobility of soul
At odds with circumstance? The day’s on fire
I know the purity of pure despair
My shadow pinned against a sweating wall
That place among the rocks – is it a cave
Or winding path? The edge is what I have