All 4 Uses of
twilight
in
The Prophet
- A noontide have you been in our twilight, and your youth has given us dreams to dream.†
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- For even as you have home-comings in your twilight, so has the wanderer in you, the ever distant and alone.†
- Only then shall you know that the erect and the fallen are but one man standing in twilight between the night of his pigmy-self and the day of his god self,
*twilight = a condition of decline following successes (in this case, just before sunrise, but in other usage, it could refer to just after sunset)
- If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more, we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song.†
Definitions:
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(twilight as in: the twilight of her career) a condition of decline following successes
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(twilight as in: pink clouds in a twilight sky) the time of day between daylight and darkness (just after sunset or just before sunrise); or the light from the sky at that time