“Far in the pillared dark
Thrush music went —
Almost like a call to come in
To the dark and lament.

But no, I was out for stars;
I would not come in.
I meant not even if asked;
And I hadn't been.”

—  Robert Frost

" Come In http://plagiarist.com/poetry/691" (1942), st. 4, 5
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