Inducing a mood 

Extinguish the guiding lights

All sense of the divine, and of science

Revert to ruder times

Imbue your savage lines with a primal jaggedness, and worrying ice

Write by night using the right’s wicked companion

Until the desk wax slick, the wick low

Ride by night across Wicklow

Darkness thick and sticky, never slow

Write by night.

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