POETRY: FRED CHAPPELL Hesperus. I envy your engagement with the night. To its great shadow you abandon your own. Omnipresent in the absence of light, You are everywhere at once till night is gone. The world is yours to reconnoiter at will When the sun departs the unreluctant sky And twilight smudges the steeple and the hill And the last breeze passes with a passive sigh. Then you join the anonymity Of numberless shades of shadows that crowd the dark With their numberless darknesses, a unity Of separate beings without name or mark. 101