From “By Dark:”
When it is time I follow the black dog
into the darkness that is the mind of day
I can see nothing there but the black dog
the dog I know is going ahead of me
not looking back oh it is the black dog
I trust now in my turn after the years
when I had all the trust of the black dog
through an age of brightness and through shadow
on into the blindness of the black dog
where the rooms of the dark were already known
and had no fear in them for the black dog
leading me carefully up the blind stairs
W.S. Merwin
Follow the black dog
Irene D. Nodell
December 12, 1921 - April 20, 2009
He has taken us out of the power of darkness and has made it
possible for us to join the saints and with them to inherit the light. Look
towards him and be radiant, let your faces not be abashed.
Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto. Sicut erat in
principio, et nunc, et semper, et in saecula saeculorum. Amen.