Our life is but a dark and stormy night, To which sense yields a weak and glimmering light, While wandering Man thinks he discerneth all By that which makes him but mistake and fall. (Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury)

Our life is but a dark and stormy night, To which sense yields a weak and glimmering light, While wandering Man thinks he discerneth all By that which makes him but mistake and fall.

Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury

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