Look: the sun has spread its wingsover the earth
to dispel the darkness.
Like a great tree, with its roots in heaven,
and its branches reaching down to the earth.
~ translated from the Hebrew by T. Carmi
from A Book of Luminous Things edited by Czeslaw MiloszThe Sun by Judah Al-Harizi
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