The sun comes up in the morning through branches, dispels the dew, the eyes, on the grass, and defeats stars envisioned as armies. "Brave" has its old sense of showy as well as its modern sense. courage. This sun is not aftaid to show its face, but the person in the poem is afraid. He moght have been up all night. That is the revealing part of how Steven saves that 4th stanza, where runaway has become a refrain. This person might want to runaway too, but fortified by the sun’s example, he might just rise. Stevens saves that sonically odd word “meditation” for the end. Unlike the sun, human being think. We meditate on past and future, life and death, above and below. And it can make us afraid. Poems, the pattern in poems, show us not just what somebody throught or what someone did or what happened but what it was to be a person like that, which is to be anxious, lonely, so inquisitive, goofy, preposterous and so brave.