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The orb of day had scarcely descended behind the unbroken line of forest trees in the west ere the full moon appeared in the east, rising in majesty through the trees. The silvery globe stretched from the base almost to the tops of the trees.
A piece of the moon, far gone in the third quarter, was rising above a mass of evergreens. She had a courageous young soul, and the waning brightness of the lovers' orb did not affect her as a disheartening sign. "It is not right," she said to herself. "I will not do it.
But when an eclipse of the sun occurs, caused by the interposition of the opaque globe of the moon, we see its immediate surroundings, which in some respects are more wonderful than the glowing central orb. These surroundings, although not in the sense in which we apply the term to the gaseous envelope of the earth, may be called the sun's atmosphere.
A purple twilight hangs over the deep, and a golden mist on the Laguna announces the sun's approach. The heavens and the sea are wrapped in expectant silence. In two seconds the orb of day appears, casting a flood of fiery light on the waves. It is an enchanting sight.
At daylight the boats moved off on their return; and soon after the sun's bright orb had sunk into the same vast dead level from which it rose, we reached the entrance. Being anxious that the surgeon should see Mr.
"Really, chevalier, I am curious to know where you will stop. Suns, I own, please me; gods also." Croustillac continued with a languorous softness: "Ah! if gods, would they work me ill? If the heavens, would add more sorrow still? Two suns? 'tis false that orb is one " "Ah, heavens, chevalier, you delight me; among all these charming comparisons there remains nothing more for me but lightening "
Within the concave that held my brain, were the fathomless deeps of blue; clouds floated there, and the winds of heaven rolled them together, and there shone the orb of the sun. It was though I thought not of that at the time like a revelation of the mystery of omnipresence. It is difficult to describe this sensation, or the rapidity with which it mastered me.
And, O bull of Bharata's race, the mighty-armed Bhishma, O king, with his standard which was made of silver and graced with the device of the palmyra with five stars, setting upon his great car, shone like the lunar orb under the peak of Meru." And protected by those five mighty car-warriors, O bull of Bharata's race, that great car-warrior penetrated the Pandava host.
In the first we read: 'Then was my Soul my only All to me, A living endless Ey, Scarce bounded with the Sky Whose Power, and Act, and Essence was to see: I was an inward Sphere of Light, Or an interminable Orb of Sight, Exceeding that which makes the Days . . . In the second poem the same experience is expressed in richer detail. There he says of his own soul that it
Suddenly a halo on the upper edge of the black cloud heralded the struggling through of the moon: she shot out a crescent, reddish in the mist, then labored into her full orb, wellnigh golden as the sun. Spinoza started from his reverie: his doublet was wet with dew, he felt the mist in his throat.
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