They’re lights to them who seek; though devils they may scare.”
If every man had strength, and faculty of sight,
To look straight at the sun, trust him alone for light,
What need were for the stars, or lamps, of feeble ray,
To help them on their path, in quest of source of day?160
The moon declares to man, as do the clouds, the shade,
“I, too, ’d been human, but for revelation made.[399]
Like you, I had been darksome, as within, without.
But revelation gave me sunlight, shade to rout.
Compared with the sun, I’m darksome as a cloud;