In these lines, the allusion to the great seventeenth-century
portrait painter Rembrandt highlights the theme
Read this excerpt from "The Legend."
There's a Rembrandt glow on his face,
a triangle of orange in the hollow of his cheek
as a last flash of sunset
blazes the storefronts and lit windows of the street.
O "Youth is the best time of life."
O "People are nothing next to nature."
O "Individual lives are important."
O "Our lives depend on the sun."