That charm shall grow, while what fatigues the Ring Flaunts and goes down, an unregarded thing: So when the sun's broad beam has tired the sight, All mild ascends the moon's more sober light, Serene in virgin modesty she shines, And unobserved the glaring orb declines.

But Old Tlapallan was usually located to the West, where the sun disappears at night; while New Tlapallan, the goal of Quetzalcoatl's journey, was in the East, where the day-orb rises in the morning.

In that shoreless sea of splendor What is one faint wave of light? Worlds by millions are revolving Through that vast, unfathomed main; Should our tiny orb make shipwreck, Worlds by millions would remain; Where perchance a real advancement May prevail from pole to pole, Without losses, without lapses, Toward a final, perfect goal.

Sometimes, not often, a pale orb struggles through the clouds and glimmers faintly upon the grimy townsome poor relation of the sun, maybe, but not the godlike creature himself.

The last letter, M, they did not decompose like the rest, but kept it entire for a while, and glowed so deeply within it, that the silvery orb thereabout seemed burning with gold.

Now the broad Sun his golden orb unshrouds, Flames in the west, and paints the parted clouds; O'er heaven's wide arch refracted lustres flow, And bend in air the many-colour'd bow.