<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=428975" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Far-Darting Apollo</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I saw the sun step like a gentleman<br>Dressed in black and proud as sin.<br>I saw the sun walk across London <br>Like a young M. P., risen to the occasion.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His step was light, his tread was dancing,<br>His lips were smiling, his eyes glancing.<br>Over the Cenotaph in Whitehall<br>The sun took the wicket with my skull.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sun plays tennis in the court of Geneva<br>With the guts of a Finn and the head of an Emperor.<br>The sun plays squash in a tomb of marble,<br>The horses of Apocalypse are in his stable.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sun plays a game of darts in Spain<br>Three by three in flight formation.<br>The invincible wheels of his yellow car<br>Are the discs that kindle the Chinese war.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sun shows the world to the world,<br>Turns its own ghost on the terrified crowd,<br>Then plunges all images into the ocean<br>Of the nightly mass emotion.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Games of chance and games of skill,<br>All his sports are games to kill.<br>I saw the murderer at evening lie<br>Bleeding on his death-bed sky.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His hyacinth breath, his laurel hair,<br>His blinding sight, his moving air,<br>My love, my grief, my weariness, my fears<br>Hid from me in a night of tears.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Kathleen+Jessie+Raine">Kathleen Jessie Raine</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=428975" data-title="Far-Darting Apollo de Kathleen Jessie Raine" data-description="I saw the sun step like a gentleman Dressed in black and proud as sin. I saw the sun walk across London Like a young M. P., risen to the occasion. His step was light, his tread was dancing, His lips were smiling, his eyes glancing. Over the Ceno..."></div> </div> </div>

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