“And to 'scape stormy days, I choose an everlasting night.”
John Donne (1572–1631) English poet
Source: The Complete English Poems
“For many a day, and many a dreadful night,
Incessant lab'ring round the stormy cape.”
Source: The Seasons (1726-1730), Summer (1727), l. 1002.
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