Daybreak

The greatest show on Earth (non stop twenty four hours around the world) Begins with a curtain-rise of soft pink cloud and a blare of golden trumpets; The Sun's rebirth we have seen it all before we don't even bother to get out of bed, or, if we're up already, we take heed only to see will it be fine today for our trip to the shore, or the mountains; will it rain for the school picnic, will the races go on or the test match be postponed? And yet, one day, if the sun should not rise, what a loud refrain of despair and horror would run, circling the whole Earth as each place found that today the golden trumpets would not sound, and the show was over! We should think of each day as our last for seeing the sun.