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There are songs for the morning and songs for the night, / For sunrise and sunset, the stars and the moon; / But who will give praise to the fulness of light, / And sing us a song of the glory of noon? / Oh, the high noon, the clear noon, / The noon with golden crest; / When the blue sky burns, and the great sun turns / With his face to the way of the west!
How swiftly he rose in the dawn of his strength! / How slowly he crept as the morning wore by! / Ah, steep was the climbing that led him at length / To the height of his throne in the wide summer sky. / Oh, the long toil, the slow toil, / The toil that may not rest, / Till the sun looks down from his journey's crown, / To the wonderful way of the west!