When one goes forth at night, and has the eventide befor...

When one goes forth at night, and has the eventide before him, he sees still at the farthest end of the gloomy sky the last bright garment of a splendid day slowly moving downwards, – thus is it with me in my remembrance of thee.  Be the time ever so gloomy and mournful, I still know where my day has set.

Bettine von Arnim to Goethe, from Goethe’s Correspondence with a Child