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that gold hour when the world exhales and pretends the day went fine
means Eventide is an old, poetic word for evening — the time around sunset when day fades into night.
from From Old English ǣfentīd, a tidy compound of ǣfen ('evening,' ancestor of our 'eve' and 'even') and tīd ('time, season,' the very same word that became 'tide'). So buried inside it is the old sense of 'tide' as a stretch of time rather than the sea's rising and falling — the same thread you can still feel in 'Yuletide' and 'Whitsuntide.' Literally, then: evening-time.
- old word
- Anglo-Saxon for evening, alive since before England was England
- blue light
- twilight scatters short wavelengths, painting the sky electric blue
- animal cue
- crepuscular creatures wake precisely now, dodging both day and night hunters
- poet bait
- Tennyson, Poe, and hymn writers all hoarded this single syllable
for instance
eventide software — audio processing company founded 1971, makes flagship h9 effects processor