In night when colours all to black are cast,
Distinction lost, or gone down with the light;
The eye - a watch to inward senses placed,
Not seeing, yet still having power of sight -
Gives vain alarums to the inward sense. (Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke)

In night when colours all to black are cast, Distinction lost, or gone down with the light; The eye - a watch to inward senses placed, Not seeing, yet still having power of sight - Gives vain alarums to the inward sense.

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

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