The Sun Waters the Pastures of Heaven
The sun waters the pastures of heaven With warm rains of light;
For the golden-lambkins to graze . . The star-flocks of night.
Dhan Gopal Mukerji
The sun waters the pastures of heaven With warm rains of light;
For the golden-lambkins to graze . . The star-flocks of night.
The speaker imagines the sun not as a blazing object, but as a caretaker. Its light falls like warm rain, watering the pastures of heaven so that golden lambkins can graze there. Those lambs are really stars, and the night sky becomes a peaceful flock moving across an endless field.
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