Richard Crashaw


DIVINE EPIGRAMS.

JOHN III.

But Men loved Darkness rather than Light.
THE world's Light shines :  shine as it will,
The world will love its darkness still ;
I doubt though, when the world's in hell,
It will not love its darkness half so well.




Source:
The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw. William B. Turnbull, Ed.
London: John Russell Smith, 1858.  28.



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