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DIGITAL RESOURCES

The Sun 2

Have you ever seen anything in your life
More wonderful than the way the sun,
Every evening, relaxed and easy, floats toward the horizon
And into the clouds or the hills,

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Or the rumpled sea, and is gone –
And how it slides again out of the blackness,
Every morning, on the other side of the world,
Like a red flower steaming upward on its heavenly oils
Say, on a morning in early summer,
At its perfect imperial distance –

And have you ever felt for anything such wild love –

Do you think there is anywhere, in any language,
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A word billowing enough for the pleasure that fills you,
As the sun reaches out, as it warms you
As you stand there, empty-handed –
or have you too turned from this world –

Or have you too gone crazy for power, for things?

Mary Jane Oliver

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creased or ruffled in appearance
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filled with air and moving outwards
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