“Yet why evoke the spectres of black night
To blot the sunshine of exultant years?”

— James Thomson (B.V.)

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The City of Dreadful Night (1870–74)

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Scottish writer (1834-1882) 1834–1882

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“Yet why evoke the spectres of black nightTo blot the sunshine of exultant years?”

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