It is that of three horsemen galloping to save the life of their town; galloping without rest, from Moonset to sunrise, from sunrise into the blaze of noon; one horse dropping dead on the way, the second, within sight of the goal; and the third, Roland, urged on by frantic exertions on his rider's part-the blood filling his nostrils, and starting in red circles round his eyes-galloping into the market-place of Aix; to rest there with his head between his master's knees: while the last measure of wine which the city contains is being poured down his throat.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
The total amount of the refraction at the horizon is a little more than half a degree, and since the diameters of the sun and moon subtend an angle of about half a degree, we have the remarkable result that in reality the whole disk of either sun or moon is below the horizon at the instant that the lower edge appears to touch the horizon and sunset or Moonset begins.
"A Text-Book of Astronomy"
George C. Comstock
Moonset Past seven o'clock: time to be gone; Twelfth-night's over and dawn shivering up: A hasty cut of the loaf, a steaming cup, Down to the door, and there is Coachman John.
"Collected Poems 1897 - 1907"
Henry Newbolt