“The sacred lamp of day
Now dipt in western clouds his parting ray.”
William Falconer (1732–1769) British writer
Canto II, line 27.
The Shipwreck (1762)
“The soul of man is like the rolling world,
One half in day, the other dipt in night;
The one has music and the flying cloud,
The other, silence and the wakeful stars.”
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