The Sun in Fond Submission
My dazzling disc raised in the sky!
My mien — a gushing face!
This sprawling earth I beautify,
And tend with perfect grace.
And when I’ve championed the day,
With all my vigour gone,
The silhouettes make shadow play,
My lusty candor wan.
Aye, when the booming day is done,
I need to rest again,
Descending, by my lover won—
Retiring from all men.
Enticed unto a bed of dark,
Beyond the rim of earth,
That brilliancy that lit the park?
Renews in night’s rebirth.
The shadows are a part of me!
Just like the light, they live,
And from my presence faithfully,
Pronounce the love I give.
The briar thorn, with pointed tip,
The outline of the rose,
Their dainty shapes in shadows slip—
Their contours in repose.
My flashy flames are softly shed,
My robes of gold laid down,
I take the crown from off my head,
My precious cloak and gown.
At dusk I yawn a luscious yawn,
And rest my weary mind,
Away — to dream about the dawn,
In sleeping stillness blind.
I pass my baton to the moon,
My little sister fair,
And she ignites the picture soon,
Within her pallid stare.
My love is surely too refined,
And monumental large,
To be by constancy defined,
And so it must recharge.
I pray a prayer before I go,
An affirmation true,
My service now an afterglow,
In waning orange hue…
“I love thee with a fondness,
Knit by soft angelic hands!
Tomorrow I do pledge myself,
To light again these lands…”
AD Lovkis, 14/08/25
The painting is titled “Sunset, Woodland Scene” by the French artist Léon Bonvin.
Artist: Charles Léon Bonvin (1834–1866) was a French watercolor artist known for his delicate and melancholic landscapes, among other subjects.
Subject: The painting depicts a sunset in a woodland setting, with silhouettes of thorny branches and other vegetation against the fading light.
Date: 1864.
Collection: The Walters Art Museum.
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