Source: A line from a poem/song: Sweetest Love, I Do Not Go. Full version https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Song:_Sweetest_love,_I_do_not_go
Context: SWEETEST love, I do not go,
For weariness of thee,
Nor in hope the world can show
A fitter love for me;
But since that I
At the last must part, 'tis best,
Thus to use myself in jest
By feigned deaths to die.
Yesternight the sun went hence,
And yet is here to-day;
He hath no desire nor sense,
Nor half so short a way;
Then fear not me,
But believe that I shall make
Speedier journeys, since I take
More wings and spurs than he.
O how feeble is man's power,
That if good fortune fall,
Cannot add another hour,
Nor a lost hour recall;
But come bad chance,
And we join to it our strength,
And we teach it art and length,
Itself o'er us to advance.
When thou sigh'st, thou sigh'st not wind,
But sigh'st my soul away;
When thou weep'st, unkindly kind,
My life's blood doth decay.
It cannot be
That thou lovest me as thou say'st,
If in thine my life thou waste,
That art the best of me.
Let not thy divining heart
Forethink me any ill;
Destiny may take thy part,
And may thy fears fulfil.
But think that we
Are but turn'd aside to sleep.
They who one another keep
Alive, ne'er parted be.
“you are my sun, and if the sun went out, the shadow would die.”
1980s, First term of office (1981–1985), First Inaugural address (1981)
Context: To a few of us here today this is a solemn and most momentous occasion, and yet in the history of our nation it is a commonplace occurrence. The orderly transfer of authority as called for in the Constitution routinely takes place, as it has for almost two centuries, and few of us stop to think how unique we really are. In the eyes of many in the world, this every-four-year ceremony we accept as normal is nothing less than a miracle.
“The sun is invisible in men, but visible in the world, yet both are of one and the same sun.”
Theatrum Chemicum Volume 1 Spec. phil.
Attributed to Nampo Jomyo in: Richard Bryan McDaniel.Zen Masters of Japan. The Second Step East. Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle Publishing, 2013.
“The sun has not yet set for all time.”
Book XXXIX, sec. 26
History of Rome
“Yet the moonlight is the sunlight and the sun himself will pass.”
Source: Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886), Line 182
“You see a long time ago life had begun
Everyone went to the sun”
Song: Everyone's gone to the Moon
“People here worship the sun." "Yes, but my people worship the God who made the sun.”
Source: Till Shiloh Comes
Book 1, Ch. 10
De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (1543)
