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Steve Luker

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  • on Sure On This Shining Night by James Agee, on June 29
    This is a poem about what lies beyond this Earth and realm.

    It's about longing for a place that must certainly eclipse the seemingly insurmountable beauty and light of this life.

    In this poem, Agee is weeping for that place...

    "On this night, when the stars are so bright as to leave shadows on the ground, Fate (or maybe a Guardian Angel) had better keep a close eye on me."

    "Because, though all is warm and happy around me here on Earth, I long for what lies beyond this life."

    "Though the starlight is beautiful and bright, I long for death, when I can exist in some place where shadows from some greater, unseen Heavenly light fall upon the very stars that seem to shine so brightly tonight."

    Morten Lauridsen's composition of this poem, I feel, may give one a glimpse of what Agee was trying say.