Midwinter thoughts...

And as the old year went down into its grave,
they knew at last the Great Darkness was brought
not by death,
but by distraction.
So they looked up,
on this very night,
up, up, above the sleepless wires and ordered lines,
above the mad words colliding in the lower aires.
And in that one moment at midwinter,
they gazed upon the ever-living stars,
and the darkness fell away from them,
and for all the season,
and always.