When the Golden Sun Is Setting

DESCRIPTION: "When the golden sun is setting And your face I cannot see, Will you step before the looking-glass And kiss yourself for me?" Or, "When the golden sun is setting, And your mind from care is free... Won't you sometimes think of me."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1884 (J. S. Ogilvie, "One Thousand Popular Quotations... Suitable for Writing in Autograph Albums")
KEYWORDS: love separation
FOUND IN: US(Ap,MW)
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Henry-SongsSungInTheSouthernAppalachians, p. 231, (third of several "Fragments from Tennessee") (1 fragment)
Sackett/Koch-KansasFolklore, p. 134, "(When the golden sun is setting And your mind from care is free)"; ("When the golden sun is setting and your mind from care is free)"; "(When the golden sun is setting and your mind from care is free)"; p. 135, "When the golden sun is setting And your heart from all care is free)" (4 short texts)
ADDITIONAL: J. S. Ogilvie, _One Thousand Popular Quotations Comprising the Choicest Thoughts and Sayings of Eminent Writers of All Ages, Together With Nearly Three Hundred Original and Choice Selections, Suitable for Writing in Autograph Albums_, J. S. Ogivie, Publisher (New York & Chicago), 1884 (available on Google Books), p. 14 of part II, "When the golden sun is setting" (1 text); p. 104 of Part II, "(when the golden sun is setting)
NOTES [93 words]: Henry's version calls this a "fragment," but all the Sackett/Koch-KansasFolklore versions are from autograph books (one being that of Laura Day from 1891, a second from her husband's of about the same period, and a third from Maggie Mohler in the 1880s). There are two forms in Ogilvie's authograph collection, and I found another autograph book version online. I think it highly likely that this piece was created for that particular 1880s-era rage (mentioned, e.g., in the chapter "Name Cards" in Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little Town on the Prairie"). - RBW
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File: MHAp231C

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