William Stanley Merwin

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    Then I will no longer
    Find myself in life as in a strange garment
    —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)