“"Yes," I answered you last night;
"No," this morning, Sir, I say.
Colours seen by candlelight,
Will not look the same by day.”

—  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The Lady's Yes http://www.webterrace.com/browning/The%20Ladys%20Yes.htm, st. 1 (1844).

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