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[Day 311] June 23, 2026

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The Sunset of Life and Sun

I would rather look upon the evening,
as the sun fades away far upon the mountains,
than the early dawn, laughing in the sky,
because my own sunset calls to me softly.

Lorenzo Mavilis, Sonnets (Posthumous edition, 1915)

Poem "The Sunset of Life", Published in Collected Works of Lorenzo Mavilis, Estia Publishing.

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