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Ecstatic bird songs pound / the hollow vastness of the sky / with metallic clinkings -- / beating color up into it / at a far edge -- beating it, beating it / with rising, triumphant ardor, -- / stirring it into warmth, / quickening in it a spreading change, -- / bursting wildly against it as / dividing the horizon, a heavy sun / lifts himself -- is lifted -- / bit by bit above the edge / of things, -- runs free at last / out into the open -- ! lumbering / glorified in full release upward -- / songs cease.