They say every cloud has their silver lining, right? Well, this morning brought a golden lining to a cloud at the far side of the valley. Which must be significant... Ah! I know! It is telling me that my love will be flying her way to us pretty soon, as in late next week! You have to admit it and the sentiment are beautiful - both the sunrise, and the thought that we will be reunited again soon, even though we are, of course, never far apart in mind and soul.
Pessimists will hold that ´every lining has a cloud´, but not us optimists, oh no. The glass is half full, not half empty. The phrase comes from a masque (a Frenchified word for ´dramatic entertainment´, by John Milton. Milton's Comus gave rise to the current proverb with the lines
'Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud
Turn forth her silver lining on the night?'
Charles Dickens, in his novel 'Bleak House' , recalled the lines with 'I turn my silver lining outward like Milton's cloud,' and the American impresario Phineas T. Barnum first recorded the wording of the modern saying in 'Struggles and Triumphs' with 'Every cloud,' says the proverb, 'has a silver lining.'"). (quoted in: The Phrase Finder).
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