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Most viewed - Total Solar Eclipse - March 2006 |
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Post-Totality 3473 viewsCome! And in the fires of Spring
The winter garment of Repentance fling;
The Bird of Time hath but a little way to fly
And Lo! The Bird is on the wing!
- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
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Pre-Totality 9461 viewsAnd Spain go under and the shore
Of Africa the gilded sand
And evening vanish and no more
The low pale light across that land
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Totality 3456 viewsA longer exposure shows up the corona somewhat better. We are now approaching the end of totality.
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Pre-Totality 3453 viewsTo feel creep up the curving east
The earthy chill of dusk and slow
Upon those under lands the vast
And ever climbing shadow grow
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Post-Totality 2447 viewsBut at my back I always hear
Time's winged chariot hurrying near
And yonder all before us lie
Deserts of vast eternity.
- Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress
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Pre-Totality 8438 viewsAnd over Sicily the air
Still flashing with the landward gulls
And loom and slowly disappear
The sails above the shadowy hulls
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