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LYRIC by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE

Poet Analysis

First Line: LOW LAUGHTER OF LIGHT
Last Line: THAT SPANS THE SKY.
Subject(s): MEMORY; SEA; TIME; OCEAN;
Low laughter of light
In gleaming sky
Dawns over deeps
Of memory.

If I could listen
I should hear,
If I could look,
I should see
The moving waves
Of soundless sea.

But eyes blind me,
Thoughts bind me,
Time ties me,
I turn away.

It was I who laughed
And I was the day,
The tremor of joy
And the arch of light
That spans the sky.



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