2.05.2021

things that used to turn To gold in broadest blue

The exceeding brightness of this early sun 
Makes me conceive how dark I have become, 
 
And re-illuminates things that used to turn 
To gold in broadest blue, and be a part 
 
Of a turning spirit in an earlier self. 
That, too, returns from out the winter's air, 
 
Like an hallucination come to daze 
The corner of the eye. Our element, 
 
Cold is our element and winter's air 
Brings voices as of lions coming down. 
 
Oh! Rabbi, rabbi, fend my soul for me 
And true savant of this dark nature be. 
 
[Wallace Stevens {1879-1955} 'The Sun this March', from The Collected Poems

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