"Mysterious Night! when our first parent knew
Thee from report divine, and heard thy name,
Did he not tremble for this lovely frame,
This glorious canopy of light and blue?"
Joseph Blanco White (1775-1841), British poet. To Night (l. 1-4). . .
Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press. |
"Why do we then shun death with anxious strife?
If Light can thus deceive, wherefore not Life?"
Joseph Blanco White (1775-1841), British poet. To Night (l. 13-14). . .
Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press. |
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