William Shakespeare on Nature
1564–1616 England
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How hard it is to hide the sparks of Nature!
The night is long that never finds the day.
Men shut their doors against a setting sun.
Come, gentle night, come, loving, blackbrow'd night.
In the dead vast and middle of the night.
It is the very error of the moon:
She comes more nearer earth than she was wont,
And makes men mad.
I 'gin to be aweary of the sun,
And wish the estate o' the world were now undone.
When the sun shines let foolish gnats make sport,
But creep in crannies when he hides his beams.
The selfsame sun that shines upon his court
Hides not his visage from our cottage, but
Looks on alike.
Study is like the heaven's glorious sun,
That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks.
The moon of Rome, chaste as the icicle
That's curded by the frost from purest snow.
I must become a borrower of the night
For a dark hour or twain.
And night is fled,
Whose pitchy mantle overveil'd the earth.
That orbed continent the fire
That severs day from night.
What wind blew you hither, Pistol?
Not the ill wind which blows no man to good.
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