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A PICTURE by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI

First Line: EMERALD, THE RIM OF THE SEA
Last Line: That the dawn of day
Subject(s): ART & ARTISTS; PICTURES; PORTRAITS;

Emerald, the rim of the sea;
Purple sentinels, the hills;
The breeze half-dead or dying:
It is a song without singing.

The sun, the sweeper of the sky,
Washes it with the white of day;
For the moon, later, to paint
Her portrait of light and shade.

No sun-washed heaven that tells not of the moon;
No moon that doth not limn
Her frail, faery dream
On the sea's fluctuating rim.



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