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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=580981" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Twenty-nine Thousand Four Hundred Seven Sunsets</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Twenty-nine thousand four hundred seven sunsets<br>With one same sun on the one same sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the early days by my mother’s side, <br>Though she’d often tell me of the sun and of the sea, <br>I seldom watched, and never for long, <br>The slow dissolve, <br>The melt and plunge, <br>Now you see it, now you don’t-<br>So many sunsets lost.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Twenty-nine thousand four hundred seven sunsets<br>With one same sun on the one same sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The years of my youth were marked by friends and sport, <br>Often whole days on the beach-<br>Raging winds and mammoth waves<br>Or a still, glass sea, not a cloud in the sky, <br>And every shade in between.<br>I rarely fathomed the myriad shapes and colors, <br>An ever-changing landscape-<br>So very many sunsets lost.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Twenty-nine thousand four hundred seven sunsets<br>With one same sun on the one same sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The middle-aged years pinned me to my work; <br>Yet through a window from time to time, <br>Or on holiday, if I risked the break, <br>I’d notice how lovely a sunset could be-<br>So very many sunsets lost forever.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Twenty-nine thousand four hundred seven sunsets<br>With one same sun on the one same sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At last, in these final days, each sunset is anticipated, craved.<br>Regardless the mood of the sea, it will receive the sun.<br>No matter the face of the sky, it will let go the same.<br>The sun itself, always churning, always burning, <br>Swells with new brilliance, new radiance and splendor<br>Each time it approaches the sea, <br>Then morphs into a molten pool on the sea’s surface<br>Before plunging from view-<br>Never more a sunset lost.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Twenty-nine thousand four hundred seven sunsets<br>With one same sun on the one same sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then one glorious day, <br>The day of my twenty-nine thousand four hundred and sixth sunset, <br>And I at my usual place along the shore, <br>Saw the sun rise out of the sea from where it had just set! <br>The sun rose back up into the sky, and<br>In the very next moment on the very same day, it set again. <br>I experienced my twenty-nine thousand four hundred and seventh sunset, <br>The second in one day! <br>Oh glorious day! <br>A sunset gained.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Twenty-nine thousand four hundred seven sunsets<br>With one same sun on the one same sea.<br> </div><div style="margin:10px 0">(In 2 Kings 20: 9-11 the Lord made the shadow go back 10 steps. Certainly, at that exact moment, somewhere in the world, someone saw the sun dissolve on the horizon and then rise again.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Hm.+Nes">Hm. Nes</a><div class=q>
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With one same sun on the one same sea.

In the early days by my mother’s side, 
Though she’d often tell me of the sun and of the sea, 
I seldom watched, and never for long, 
The slow dissolve, 
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