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PÁGS. 30-31 NEW ALBA MM MODELO REGISTRADO [DORMITORIOS] ESCENA 06
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Sun, great giver of all that is,
Once more I return from dream to your times
and places. As geese wing over London in
this morning’s dawn. Before the human city
invades your immaculate spaces.
Sun, greatest of givers, your speeding rays
Weave again familiar quotidian things,
epiphanies. Of trees, leaves, wings, jewelled
rain, shining wonders.
Your golden mask covers the unknown
Presence of the awakener of all eyes
On whose blinding darkness none can gaze.
Clouds and hills and gardens and forests
and seas, High-rise buildings, dust and
ordure, derelict and broken things.
To the Sun
Receive alike from holiest, purest source
Meaning and being, messages each morning
brings. To this threshold where I am.
Old, I marvel that I have been, have seen
Your everything and nothing realm, all-giving
sun.
How address you, greatest of givers,
God, angel, these words served once, but no
longer. Apollo’s chariot or Surya’s horses
imaged in stone. Of Konarak, glorious metaphor
of the advancing power. Of the unwearied
sun from the eternal East. My time.
Has other symbols, speeding light waves,
light-years, rays. Cycling for ever the boundless
sphere of space. Vast emptiness of what is or is
not, Unsolid matter’s equivocal seeming.
Science only another grandiose myth we
have dreamed, Ptolemaic or Copernican, or
Einstein’s paradigm. Less real than those
magnificent stone horses. As light triumphs
over darkness for yet one more day.
But no myth, as before our eyes you are, or
seem! In your numinous glory I have seen you rise
From beyond the Farne Isles casting your
brilliance. Over cold northern seas, or over the
seas of Greece, Have seen your great rim rising
from India’s ocean. As you circle the earth birds
sing your approach each morning.
New flowers open in wilderness, gardens,
waste-places, All life your retinue, as before all
eyes you summon, Greatest of givers, your
heavens outspread. Our earth’s vast and minute
spaces, to each the whole.
And today I receive yet again from your inex-
haustible treasury. Of light, this room,
this green garden, my boundless universe.
