Setting sun

About Setting sun

“There was strong music in the sky: the music of sunset. In the west, a wall of clear red amber through which the sun went blazing down. The remainder of the sky was smoky rose, a color like a perfume—musk. The earth had given up its tinctures. Heights and depths and long dunes were melting into the air.”
— Tanith Lee, Delusion's Master (1981), Part 1 “The Souring of the Fruit”, Chapter 1 “Storytellers”
“Utu, shepherd of the land, father of the black-headed, when you go to sleep, the people go to sleep with you; youth Utu, when you rise, the people rise with you.”
— Lugalbanda to Utu, the ancient Mesopotamian , in Lugalbanda in the Mountain Cave, Ur III Period (21st century BCE).
“When the sun sets, who doth not look for night?”
— William Shakespeare, Richard III (c. 1591), Act II, scene 3, line 34.
“Long on the wave reflected lustres play.”
— Samuel Rogers, The Pleasures of Memory, Part I, line 94.
“When the sun is setting outside so that you cannot even recognise the hand in front of you, go indoors!”
— Sumerian proverb, Collection III at , .

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