Darkness (a Fragment)
by Arthur Hugh Clough
188106Darkness (a Fragment)Arthur Hugh Clough

But that from slow dissolving pomps of dawn
No verity of slowly strengthening light
Early or late hath issued; that the day
Scarce-shown, relapses rather, self-withdrawn,
Back to the glooms of ante-natal night,
For this, O human beings, mourn we may.

This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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