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		<title>Stevenson, Robert Louis -- Poem (1885), &#8220;Bed in Summer,&#8221; st. 1, A Child&#8217;s Garden of Verses</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite the other way, I have to go to bed by day.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In winter I get up at night<br />
<span class="tab">And dress by yellow candle-light.<br />
In summer quite the other way,<br />
<span class="tab">I have to go to bed by day.</p>
<br><b>Robert Louis Stevenson</b> (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet<br>Poem (1885), &#8220;Bed in Summer,&#8221; st. 1, <i>A Child&#8217;s Garden of Verses</i> 
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		<title>Shackleton, Ernest -- Journal aboard the Hoghton Tower (1891)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[All I say is, if you wish to see Nature robed in her mantle of might, look at a storm at sea; if you want to see her robed in her mantle of glory, look at a sunset at sea.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>All I say is, if you wish to see Nature robed in her mantle of might, look at a storm at sea; if you want to see her robed in her mantle of glory, look at a sunset at sea.</p>
<br><b>Ernest Henry Shackleton</b> (1874-1922) Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer<br>Journal aboard the <i>Hoghton Tower</i> (1891) 
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		<title>Homer -- The Iliad [Ἰλιάς], Book  8, l. 485ff (8.485-486) (c. 750 BC) [tr. Fagles (1990)]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now down in the Ocean sank the fiery light of day, drawing the dark night across the grain-giving earth. [Ἐν δ&#8217; ἔπεσ&#8217; Ὠκεανῷ λαμπρὸν φάος ἠελίοιο ἕλκον νύκτα μέλαιναν ἐπὶ ζείδωρον ἄρουραν.] (Source (Greek)). Alternate translations: And now Sol’s glorious light Fell to the sea, and to the land drew up the drowsy night. [tr. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Now down in the Ocean sank the fiery light of day,<br />
drawing the dark night across the grain-giving earth.</p>
<p>[Ἐν δ&#8217; ἔπεσ&#8217; Ὠκεανῷ λαμπρὸν φάος ἠελίοιο<br />
ἕλκον νύκτα μέλαιναν ἐπὶ ζείδωρον ἄρουραν.]</p>
<br><b>Homer</b> (fl. 7th-8th C. BC) Greek author<br><i>The Iliad</i> [Ἰλιάς], Book  8, l. 485ff (8.485-486) (c. 750 BC) [tr. Fagles (1990)] 
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(<a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0133%3Abook%3D8%3Acard%3D469#:~:text=%E1%BC%90%CE%BD%20%CE%B4%E1%BE%BD%20%E1%BC%94%CF%80%CE%B5%CF%83%E1%BE%BD%20%E1%BD%A8%CE%BA%CE%B5%CE%B1%CE%BD%E1%BF%B7%20%CE%BB%CE%B1%CE%BC%CF%80%CF%81%E1%BD%B8%CE%BD%20%CF%86%CE%AC%CE%BF%CF%82%20%E1%BC%A0%CE%B5%CE%BB%CE%AF%CE%BF%CE%B9%CE%BF">Source (Greek)</a>). Alternate translations:<br><br>

<blockquote>And now Sol’s glorious light<br>
Fell to the sea, and to the land drew up the drowsy night.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://fiftywordsforsnow.com/ebooks/chapman/iliad1.html#:~:text=And%20now%20Sol%E2%80%99s,the%20drowsy%20night.">Chapman</a> (1611), ll. 426-27]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Now deep in ocean sunk the lamp of light,<br>
And drew behind the cloudy veil of night.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Iliad_of_Homer_(Pope)/Book_8#:~:text=Now%20deep%20in%20ocean%20sunk%20the%20lamp%20of%20light">Pope</a> (1715-20)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>And now the radiant Sun in Ocean sank,<br>
Drawing night after him o’er all the earth.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/16452/16452-h/16452-h.htm#:~:text=And%20now%20the%20radiant%20Sun%20in%20Ocean%20sank">Cowper</a> (1791)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>And the bright light of the sun fell into the ocean, drawing dark night over the fruitful earth.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/22382/22382-h/22382-h.htm#:~:text=And%20the%20bright%20light%20of%20the%20sun%20fell%20into%20the%20ocean%2C%20drawing%20dark%20night%20over%20the%20fruitful%20earth.">Buckley</a> (1860)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>The sun, now sunk beneath the ocean wave,<br>
Drew o’er the teeming earth the veil of night.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/6150/6150-h/6150-h.htm#:~:text=The%20sun%2C%20now%20sunk%20beneath%20the%20ocean%20wave">Derby</a> (1864)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>And the sul’s bright light dropped into Ocean, drawing black night across Earth the grain-giver.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3059/3059-h/3059-h.htm#:~:text=And%20the%20sul%E2%80%99s%20bright%20light%20dropped%20into%20Ocean%2C%20drawing%20black%20night%20across%20Earth%20the%20grain%2Dgiver.">Leaf/Lang/Myers</a> (1891)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>The sun's glorious orb now sank into Oceanus and drew down night over the land.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Iliad_(Butler)/Book_VIII#:~:text=The%20sun%27s%20glorious%20orb%20now%20sank%20into%20Oceanus%20and%20drew%20down%20night%20over%20the%20land.">Butler</a> (1898)]</blockquote><br>


<blockquote>Then into Oceanus fell the bright light of the sun <br>
drawing black night over the face of the earth, the giver of grain. <br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Iliad_(Murray)/Book_VIII#navigationNotes:~:text=Then%20into%20Oceanus%20fell%20the%20bright,the%20earth%2C%20the%20giver%20of%20grain.">Murray</a> (1924)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>And now the shining light of the sun was dipped in the Ocean trailing black night across the grain-giving land.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Iliad_of_Homer/VppP9t9CjFIC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PT212&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22shining%20light%20of%20the%20sun%22">Lattimore</a> (1951)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Now in the western Ocean the shining sun dipped,<br>
drawing dark night on over the kind grainbearing earth.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Iliad/OUbJC89bB2YC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA116&printsec=frontcover&bsq=grainbearing%20earth">Fitzgerald</a> (1974)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Helios' radiant sunlight then fell into the Ocean,<br>
drawing the black night over the grain-giving land.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Iliad/sos0paw_-cEC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PP1&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22radiant%20sunlight%20then%20fell%22">Merrill</a> (2007)]</blockquote><br>						</span>
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