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A Perspective by On Robert Frostfs gAcquainted with the Nighth Acquainted with the Night Robert Frost "I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain -- and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain. I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-by; And further still at an unearthly height One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right. I have been one acquainted with the night." ~ "What can we know? What are we all? Poor, silly, half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instincts of beasts." Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Munro Stark Letters. The nature of men has both its light and its dark sides. An idea that Confucius believed in was Yin and Yang, the balance of light and dark. "Yin represents eternity, dark, feminine, left side of the body, etc. Yang is its opposite and represents history, light, masculine, right side of t