POEM: The Desert Sun
The Desert Sun
1.
blinded by the desert sun
the Hebrew prophets
divined in darkness
a beauty deeper
than had been known
2.
an old retainer
of Charles The First
asked to defect
to Cromwell’s side
replied as follows
I have eaten
the king’s bread
for thirty years
I will not desert him
in his hour of need
3.
the beauty of the moral act
