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Van Gogh in The Sky (New York): photo by DavidWatts1978, 23 December 2009
Another and another and another
And still another sunset and sunrise,
The same yet different, different and the same,
Seen by me now in my declining years
As in my early childhood, youth and manhood;
And by my parents and my parents’ parents,
And by the parents of my parents’ parents,
And by their parents counted back for ever,
Seen, all their lives long, even as now by me;
And by my children and my children’s children
And by the children of my children’s children
And by their children counted on for ever
Still to be seen as even now seen by me;
Clear and bright sometimes, sometimes dark and clouded
But still the same sunsetting and sunrise;
The same for ever to the never ending
Line of observers, to the same observer
Through all the changes of his life the same:
Sunsetting and sunrising and sunsetting,
And then again sunrising and sunsetting,
Sunrising and sunsetting evermore.
James Henry (1798-1816): Another
Hura, Israel: A policeman on horseback chases demonstrators during a protest against the Prawer Plan, an Israeli government plan to forcibly remove up to 70,000 Palestinian Bedouins from their historic land in the Negev desert: photo by Oliver Weiken/EPA via The Guardian, 1 December 2013