new-rising

Updated: May 20, 2025

Come up and fight or we blast you in your spaceport! Just to prove we can do it watch!" Bors said, "Fire one," and a missile went off toward the planet. It was fused to detonate at the very tip of the fringes of the planet's atmosphere. It did. There was light more brilliant than a thousand suns. The long low shadows of sunrise vanished. The new-rising sun turned dim by comparison.

Murray Leinster - Talents, Incorporated

Still grows the vivacious lilac a generation after the door and lintel and the sill are gone, unfolding its sweet-scented flowers each spring, to be plucked by the musing traveller; planted and tended once by children's hands, in front-yard plots now standing by wallsides in retired pastures, and giving place to new-rising forests; the last of that stirp, sole survivor of that family.

Henry David Thoreau - Walden