Our science says it’s much too hot to burn.
If this is so, I have i lots to unlearn.
It shoots great tongues of flame in leaping masses;
It gives off quantities of well-known gases;
It is the source of nearly all our light,
And moon Is too, which illuminates our night.
Almost a hundred million miles its heat
Has carried, to depopulate the street
Of even insects, whose dry .. dusty whir-r
Rasps from such little shade as does occur.
Our panting hound dog blames the sun. By thunder,
If it’s not burning, then what is, I wonder?
by Ray Romine Tuesday, March 30, 1954