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Richard Crashaw (1613-1649)

But Men Loved Darkness rather than Light


              1   The world's light shines, shine as it will,
              2The world will love its darkness still.
              3I doubt though when the world's in hell,
              4It will not love its darkness half so well.

Notes

1] See John iii.19.


Online text copyright © 2009, Ian Lancashire (the Department of English) and the University of Toronto.
Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries.

Original text: Richard Crashaw, Steps to the Temple (1646); facs. edn. (Scolar Press, 1970). PR 3386 A75 1970 Robarts Library
First publication date: 1646
RPO poem editor: N. J. Endicott
RP edition: 2RP 1.342.
Recent editing: 4:2002/2/12

Form: Short Couplets
Rhyme: aabb


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