ABSTRACT
This fragment of a sunset scene resembles some of S.’s other fragmentary notations of atmospheric conditions in mid- to late 1819, such as Now the day has died away (no. 268), One atom of golden cloud, like a fiery star (no. 269), The gentleness of rain is in the Wind (no. 229). Its position in Nbk 11 would seem to confirm a date before early December 1819, as Nancy Goslee argues in BSM xviii p. xli, while the presence of drafts for Misery.—A Fragment (no. 202) on either side of it would indicate composition in summer 1819. Some time within that range of dates is probable.
