Day

"[T]he great lady of heaven delivered those words to An. Having heard those words, An slapped his thighs in [annoyance], his voice filled with sighs of grief: "What has my child done? She has become greater than me! What has Inana done? She has become greater than me! From now on, the normal length of daylight becomes shorter, and daylight converts to night-time. From today, when the days watch is three units long, daylight is equal to night-time." And now, when day began, it was indeed so."

"Quantumvis cursum longum fessumque moratur Sol, sacro tandem carmine Vesper adest."

"What hath this day deservd? what hath it done, That it in golden letters should be set Among the high tides in the calendar?"

"A life that leads melodious days."

"On all important time, thro evry age, Tho much, and warm, the wise have urged; the man Is yet unborn, who duly weighs an hour, "Ive lost a day"—the prince who nobly cried Had been an emperor without his crown; Of Rome? say rather, lord of human race."

"Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn! Look to this Day! For it is Life, The very Life of Life. In its brief course lie all the Varieties And Realities of your Existence; The Bliss of Growth, The Glory of Action, The Splendor of Beauty; For Yesterday is but a Dream, And Tomorrow is only a Vision; But Today well lived Makes every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness, And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope. Look well therefore to this Day! Such is the Salutation of the Dawn."

"Daughters of Time, the hypocrite Days, Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes, And marching single in an endless file, Bring diadems and fagots in their hands; To each they offer gifts after his will, Bread, kingdom, stars, and sky that holds them all; I, in my pleachéd garden watched the pomp Forgot my morning wishes, hastily Took a few herbs and apples, and the Day Turned and departed silent. I too late Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn."

"So here hath been dawning Another blue day; Think, wilt thou let it Slip useless away? Out of eternity This new day is born, Into eternity At night will return."

"O summer day beside the joyous sea! O summer day so wonderful and white, So full of gladness and so full of pain! Forever and forever shalt thou be To some the gravestone of a dead delight, To some the landmark of a new domain."

"Virtus sui gloria. Think that day lost whose (low) descending sun Views from thy hand no noble action done."

"An lifted his head in pride and brought forth a good day."

"After the day there cometh the derke night; For though the day be never so longe, At last the belles ringeth to evensonge."