Decades and decades before Puff the Magic Dragon, The Rainbow Connection, and Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds, there were these sunbeam wishes of a floating song in Rainbow Verse: A Book of Helpful Sunny Philosophy by W. Dayton Wegefarth, 1919.

"Trying to prevent the sun from rising," from Grip, 1890.

This is one of the dangers of painting a realistic sun.  From Le Rire, 1903.

"Half-inch piece of sun will guide night flyers."  From Popular Mechanics, 1930.

Please do join (if only as a spectator) my psychic battle against vintage Popular Mechanics magazine.  The phrase "printed matter can be demonic" delivers zero Google results, but that simply testifies to a massive coverup.  Vintage Popular Mechanics is the dragon to my St. George.  Root for me, even if my anachronistic quest to vanquish this beast perplexes you.  Merely recall that linear time is an illusion, and have faith that it's never "too late" to stop the toxic waste of vintage Popular Mechanics from contaminating our world.

"Pull down the blinds!  The sunset is assuming a shape I stongly object to!"  From Pick Me Up, 1894.

"Planets with four suns in their sky may be more common than previously thought, a new study suggests" (Space.com).  From Mocca, 1930.

You've seen faces drawn on the sun, but the trend goes all the way back.  From Le Rire, 1896.

From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1883.

From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1883.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click to transform the sunlight into moonlight.

"The old fellow winked at me," from The Sketch, 1901.

The day meteorologists took their heads out of their asses long enough to discover what everybody else always knew: "Temperature found to vary with solar changes."  We wonder if meteorologists of today have forgotten this bombshell (given their track record).  From Popular Mechanics, 1930.