“To man, that was in th' evening made,
Stars gave the first delight;
Admiring, in the gloomy shade,
Those little drops of light.”

— Edmund Waller

An Apology for Having Loved Before (1664).
Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham (1857)

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English poet and politician 1606–1687

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“To man, that was in th' evening made,
Stars gave the first delight;
Admiring, in the gloomy shade,
Those little drops of light.”