Oh, the darkening of my
sun! Oh, the craving to crave!
He showed me also, in one of his books, the figures of the
sun, moon, and stars, the zodiac, the tropics, and polar circles, together with the denominations of many plains and solids.
People only think they need these things because they have been trained in fear instead of being trained in power and courage, just as the silly nurses tell children not to stare at the
sun, and so they can't do it without blinking.
"When we had passed the [Wandering] rocks, with Scylla and terrible Charybdis, we reached the noble island of the sun-god, where were the goodly cattle and sheep belonging to the
sun Hyperion.
'Do you really imagine, brave son of the earth, that you can pluck an apple so easily from the Tree of the
Sun? Before you can do that, you have a difficult task before you.
`Suddenly I noticed that the circular westward outline of the
sun had changed; that a concavity, a bay, had appeared in the curve.
The
Sun's rim dips; the stars rush out: At one stride comes the dark; With far-heard whisper, o'er the sea.
The King's Son got some scratches too; but the
sun shone on his path, and it is him that we will follow, for he was an excellent and resolute youth.
The immense stretch of meadow had been mown and was sparkling with a peculiar fresh brilliance, with its lines of already sweet-smelling grass in the slanting rays of the evening
sun. And the bushes about the river had been cut down, and the river itself, not visible before, now gleaming like steel in its bends, and the moving, ascending peasants, and the sharp wall of grass of the unmown part of the meadow, and the hawks hovering over the stripped meadow--all was perfectly new.
"I just reckon the
sun himself is trying to play the game now, don't you?" she cried, forgetting for the moment that Mr.
"But will the
sun show himself through this fog?" said I, looking at the leaden sky.
If the observer had then specially directed his attention to one of the more humble and less brilliant of these stellar bodies, a star of the fourth class, that which is arrogantly called the
Sun, all the phenomena to which the formation of the Universe is to be ascribed would have been successively fulfilled before his eyes.