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First Line: Time tells the rosary of the sun
Last Line: Time tells the rosary of the sun.
Alternate Author Name(s): Roux, Paul Pierre; Roux, P0l
Subject(s): Angels; Butterflies; Colors; Insects; Spring; Bugs


Time tells the rosary of the sun.

In these hours colored like the treasure of the church, angel-cheeks soon to
be devoured smile on the green branches of candelabra where dry-grass wags are
calling. By the white bands of the light lowlands, where one slope is an idyll
of Theocritus, one a bucolic of Virgil, come and go tunicked pilgrims, wreathed
with a diadem that stubborn springs again, despite the puff of cloth whereby the
peremptory hand, every twenty paces, effaces it. In an orchard milord Scarecrow
over a desk is beating time to the cherry-notes played on a fife by a shepherd
whose flock bleats under a lively flight of swallows knitting space. Meanwhile,
before his threshold honeysuckle-decked, an old man come before his time
sharpens the annual scythe, as if he were polishing a groundswell with the north
wind.

Time tells the rosary of the sun.





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