Thursday, July 2, 2020

Nightfall


the twilight-loving bats    begin to flit about
-- Washington Irving ,“The Legend of the Enchanted Soldier”, in The Alhambra (1832)


The shadows of the valley
grew deeper and deeper,
until all was dark.
-- Washington Irving ,“The Legend of the Moor’s Legacy”, in The Alhambra (1832)


They sat on the boarding-house porch  and saw the sun plunge  into the same crack in the earth  from which the night emerged.
-- Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)

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