The Queen consented with many tears, and the King at once bade his son set forth in search of the Tree of the
Sun, from which he was to pluck a golden apple.
Overhead it was a deep Indian red and starless, and south-eastward it grew brighter to a glowing scarlet where, cut by the horizon, lay the huge hull of the
sun, red and motionless.
Are those her sails that glance in the
Sun, Like restless gossameres!
I remember that our astronomer, one day, spoke of the nature and magnitude of the
sun. The manner that he chose to render clear to the imagination of his hearers some just notions of its size, though so familiar to astronomers, produced a deep and unexpected impression on me.
The
sun was shining gloriously; the children that had been confirmed went out of the town; and from the wood was borne towards them the sounds of the unknown bell with wonderful distinctness.
"Look'ee, the little emmets crawling!" he said, pointing to them, and he shaded his eyes with his hand to look at the
sun. They mowed two more rows; the old man stopped.
"The
sun shouldn't strike it at all but it does in the morning."
Methinks now this coined
sun wears a ruddy face; but see!
But the fog did not lift, and at eleven the
sun had not yet shown itself.
Unfair to the shining one in its innermost heart, cold to the
suns:--thus travelleth every
sun.
Another phenomenon would now have passed before the observer's eye, and the molecules situated on the plane of the equator, escaping like a stone from a sling of which the cord had suddenly snapped, would have formed around the
sun sundry concentric rings resembling that of Saturn.
I choked out some words through my grief and misery; as much as to say I would spare the
sun; for which the lad's eyes paid me back with such deep and loving gratitude that I had not the heart to tell him his good-hearted foolishness had ruined me and sent me to my death.