Darkness

I had a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless, and pathless, And the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air Morn came and went and brought no day, And men forgot their passions in the dread Of this their desolation and all hearts Were chill'd into a selfish prayer for light.