Sunset On A Long Boat.

(You can watch a sunset from a hill, from the plain or from the shore and the sensations are all different. But my favorite view of the setting sun is while adrift on a boat with nothing between me and the sinking sun. I had that opportunity again two days ago just after a timely rain cleared the air for the sun to display its full brilliance.)

Softly the evening came. The sun from the western horizon

Like a magician extended his golden want o'er the landscape;

Trinkling vapors arose; and sky and water and forest

Seemed all on fire at the touch, and melted and mingled together.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline

Drifting on a long boat as the sky and sea burns, you do not witness a sunset, you are part of it.

- Ghostwise

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After a day of cloud and wind and rain

Sometimes the setting sun breaks out again,

And touching all the darksome woods with light,

Smiles on the fields until they laugh and sing,

Then like a ruby from the horizon's ring,

Drops down into the night.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hanging of the Crane

On the day you witness a setting sun, the night always appear a little kinder.

- Ghostwise