“"And shall I die? and unrevenged?" she said:
"Yes! let me die! thus—thus I plunge in night."”
Charles Symmons (1749–1826) Welsh poet
Book IV, lines 887–888
The Æneis (1817)
“These are the desolate, dark weeks
when nature in its barrenness
equals the stupidity of man. The year plunges into night
and the heart plunges
lower than night”
"These"
Complete Collected Poems (1938)
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