Prodigious might that union prove,
Where Night and Day together move,
And the conjunction of our lips
Not kisses make but an eclipse;
In which the mixed black and white
Portends more terrour than delight.

"The Boy's answer" to "A Blackamore Maid to a fair Boy", printed, from MS., in The Gentleman's Magazine, vol. 12 (July 1742), p. 384, col. 2. See: Kim F. Hall, Things of Darkness: Economies of Race and Gender in Early Modern England (Cornell University Press, 1995), pp. 275–6, and Laurence Mason, English Poems of Henry King (New Haven, 1914), pp. 16–17