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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SUN IMAGE, by ORRICK JOHNS Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun makes no shadows of leaf-shape
Last Line: This freedom, at least, the grave will give you.
Subject(s): Sun
First Line: The sun makes no shadows of leaf-shape
Last Line: This freedom, at least, the grave will give you.
Subject(s): Sun
The sun makes no shadows of leaf-shape,
But photographs itself in perfect series
Of circled light on ground.
A pin-prick in a cloud
Prints a small sun upon an eagle's wing,
Halves a pebble, spots the sea like a leopard.
Escape the mark of his mint, O mortal,
The brand of his tyrant iron, if you can!
This freedom, at least, the grave will give you.
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