“Long, long may it be, ere he comes again! His hour is one of darkness, and adversity, and peril.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne , book The Gray Champion

"The Gray Champion" (1835) from Twice Told Tales (1837, 1851)
Context: Long, long may it be, ere he comes again! His hour is one of darkness, and adversity, and peril. But should domestic tyranny oppress us, or the invader's step pollute our soil, still may the Gray Champion come, for he is the type of New England's hereditary spirit; and his shadowy march, on the eve of danger, must ever be the pledge, that New England's sons will vindicate their ancestry.

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Long, long may it be, ere he comes again! His hour is one of darkness, and adversity, and peril." by Nathaniel Hawthorne?

Nathaniel Hawthorne 128

American novelist and short story writer (1804 – 1879) 1804–1864

Enya (1961) Irish singer, songwriter, and musician

Song lyrics, Amarantine (2005)

“Think gently of the erring:
Ye know not of the power
With which the dark temptation came
In some unguarded hour.”

Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney (1823–1908) American writer

"The Erring" in the Orphan's Advocate (1844) and the Social Monitor (1844), as quoted in Our Woman Workers: Biographical Sketches of Women Eminent in the Universalist Church for Literary, Philanthropic and Christian Work http://books.google.com/books?id=GQK3D5X9E4kC (1881) by E. R. Hanson, p. 170.
Context: Think gently of the erring:
Ye know not of the power
With which the dark temptation came
In some unguarded hour.
Ye may not know how earnestly
They struggled, or how well,
Until the hour of weakness came,
And sadly thus they fell.

“Life is one long struggle in the dark.”
Omnis cum in tenebris praesertim vita laboret.

Lucretius (-94–-55 BC) Roman poet and philosopher

Book II, line 54 (tr. Rouse)
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)

“It won’t be forever. You’ll be in the dark for as long as it takes and then you’ll come out.”

Sophie Kinsella book Finding Audrey

Source: Finding Audrey

“The hour that followed was a long hour.”

Cormac McCarthy book Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian (1985)

“So he died, because for a split second he got brave. But not then. He died much later, after the split second of bravery had faded into long hours of wretched gasping fear, and after the long hours of fear had exploded into long minutes of insane screaming panic.”

Lee Child book Die Trying

Die Trying, Ch. 1 (1998).

“Buttercups and Daisies—
Oh, the pretty flowers,
Coming ere the spring time,
To tell of sunny hours.”

Mary Howitt (1799–1888) English poet, and author

"Buttercups and Daisies," http://books.google.com/books?id=jrwkAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Buttercups+and+daisies+Oh+the+pretty+flowers+Coming+ere+the+Spring+time+To+tell+of+sunny+hours%22&pg=PA119#v=onepage The Christmas Library: Birds and flowers and other country things, Volume 1 http://books.google.com/books?id=ezkGfAEACAAJ&q=%22Buttercups+and+daisies+Oh+the+pretty+flowers+Coming+ere+the+Spring+time+To+tell+of+sunny+hours%22 (1837).