“For many a day, and many a dreadful night,
Incessant lab'ring round the stormy cape.”
James Thomson (poet) The Seasons
Source: The Seasons (1726-1730), Summer (1727), l. 1002.
“And to 'scape stormy days, I choose an everlasting night.”
Source: The Complete English Poems
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English poet 1572–1631Related quotes
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Context: p>O little town of Bethlehem,
How still we see thee lie!
Above thy deep and dreamless sleep
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Are met in thee to-night.</p
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