Isaac Watts (1674–1748) English hymnwriter, theologian and logician
Psalm 90 st. 4.
1710s, "Our God, our help in ages past" (1719)
Source: Les Misérables
Isaac Watts (1674–1748) English hymnwriter, theologian and logician
Psalm 90 st. 4.
1710s, "Our God, our help in ages past" (1719)
Loreena McKennitt (1957) Canadian musician and composer
The Mask and Mirror (1994), The Dark Night of The Soul
“It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn.”
Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist
Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 132.
“Suns may set and rise again. For us, when the short light has once set, remains to be slept the sleep of one unbroken night.”
Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus<br/>rumoresque senum severiorum<br/>omnes unius aestimemus assis
soles occidere et redire possunt:
nobis cum semel occidit brevis lux,
nox est perpetua una dormienda.
Gaio Valerio Catullo list of poems by Catullus
V, lines 1–6
Thomas Campion's translation:
My sweetest Lesbia, let us live and love;
And though the sager sort our deeds reprove,
Let us not weigh them: Heaven's great lamps do dive
Into their west, and straight again revive,
But, soon as once set is our little light,
Then must we sleep one ever-during night.
From A Book of Airs (1601)
Carmina
Context: Let us live, my Lesbia, and love, and value at one farthing all the talk of crabbed old men. Suns may set and rise again. For us, when the short light has once set, remains to be slept the sleep of one unbroken night.