How I Read Aloud, 15

[But I can be a partner to a sunset and a witness to the perfection of the day's end, seeing its absolute completeness.]

       And now the speaker/reader (you or I) and our audience’s lives are brought into the picture more closely for the last two lines.  This day that is coming to an end is one of “the days that keep dawning,” and by which we “age.”  Somehow the days’ dawning and setting and our dawning each day while we age, are encompassed in that single line.  And the “lived-out day” (how apt and affirming that phrase--think if the choice had been “used-up”) is perfectly parallelled with the physical day’s limits.  We donate the “lived-out day” back to something much vaster than a human life, but by which ours is measured, “eternity.”

       Those last two lines lure us magnetically back and forth between the poles of “age” and “eternity” through the field of “lived-out” and ever “dawning” days.