“It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage…”

— Robert Frost

" Once by the Pacific http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/once-by-the-pacific-2/" (1928)
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Context: You could not tell, and yet it looked as if
The shore was lucky in being backed by cliff,
The cliff in being backed by continent;
It looked as if a night of dark intent
Was coming, and not only a night, an age.
Someone had better be prepared for rage.
There would be more than ocean-water broken
Before God's last Put out the Light was spoken.

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American poet 1874–1963

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