Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?

Sir Philip Sidney

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IN DISPRAISE OF THE MOON

I would not be the Moon, the sickly thing,

To summon owls and bats upon the wing;

For when the noble Sun is gone away,

She turns his night into a pallid day.

She hath no air, no radiance of her own,

That world unmusical of earth and stone.