More lightly than this word—“The night is black.”

E’en though the eye were jaundiced, ’tis past credence

That jaundiced eye were paired by jaundiced ear,

Yea, and by instinct, heart, and every manner

Of organ that is buttress to the senses.

And this time all are tuned so fine together

That they could never clash in contradiction,

Yea, and had God upon that festal night

Called unto me from out the heights of Heaven,

“Say from what evil I shall give your earth