Nobler than a dream

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Photo by Richard Fogg

How beautiful a new sun is when it rises,


flashing out its greeting, like an explosion!


Happy, whoever hails with sweet emotion


its descent, nobler than a dream, to our eyes!


I remember! I’ve seen all, flower, furrow, fountain,


swoon beneath its look, like a throbbing heart…


–Let’s run quickly, it’s late, towards the horizon,


to catch at least one slanting ray as it departs!
~ Charles Baudelaire.