My shadow leaving work, astonished

I had a very hard time leaving my office today not knowing when we'd return. As I was leaving, the golden hour settled into campus and it looked magnificent. For some reason, I was reminded of Edmund Burke (of whom, I should add, I am rarely reminded): "The passion caused by the great and sublime in nature . . . is Astonishment; and astonishment is that state of the soul, in which all its motions are suspended, with some degree of horror. In this case the mind is so entirely filled with its object, that it cannot entertain any other."