“And, in the darkness, David closed his eyes as all that was lost was found again.”
Source: The Book of Lost Things
“… For a lifetime was but a moment in that place, and each man dreams his own heaven.
And in the darkness David closed his eyes, as all that was lost was found again.”
Source: The Book of Lost Things
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Pt. II, l. 104.
The True-Born Englishman http://www.luminarium.org/editions/trueborn.htm (1701)
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Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 338.