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“Twentyfour hours” is a clumsy mode of expression

Wake! for the Sun who scatter’d into flight The Stars before him from the Field of Night, Drives Night along with them from Heav’n, and strikes The Sultán’s Turret with a Shaft of Light. OMAR KHAYYAM, The Rubaiyat The change from night to day and day to night is so obvious that names to distinguish one from the other must… (more…)