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SUN & MOON
Splitting
the horizon
rising
up out of the night,
Into the brightness of the morning
radiating heat and light,
It guides the stretching sundial shadow
through
the seasons of its way,
The sun is for a reckoning
until
we meet our final day.
Displayed
by day a blazing lamp
crossing the heavens on charted arc,
It falls enshrouded by the night
to
leave us resting in the dark.
Yet when the shadows gather
and the
daylight's course has run,
We see the moon swim through the sky
reflecting on the trail of the sun.
But
as days turn to weeks
the
full moon turns thin,
Then leaves only starlight
in the
heavens again,
Until bent like a palm bough
the
moon reappears,
Letting us count the months
that
divide up the years.
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