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When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Yet from those flames
No light, but rather darkness visible.
Yet from those flames
No light, but rather darkness visible.
And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward
heaven, that there may be darkness over the read more
And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward
heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even
darkness which may be felt.
Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness.
Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness.
There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.
There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.
Or, if there were a sympathy in choice,
War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,
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Or, if there were a sympathy in choice,
War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,
Making it momentany as a sound,
Swift as a shadow, short as any dream,
Brief as the lightning in the collied night,
That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,
And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!'
The jaws of darkness do devour it up:
So quick bright things come to confusion.
Lo! darkness bends down like a mother of grief
On the limitless plain, and the fall of her hair
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Lo! darkness bends down like a mother of grief
On the limitless plain, and the fall of her hair
It has mantled a world.
The charm dissolves apace;
And as the morning steals upon the night,
Melting the darkness, so their read more
The charm dissolves apace;
And as the morning steals upon the night,
Melting the darkness, so their rising senses
Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle
Their clearer reason.
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.