dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge failPresented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expung'd and ras'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light,... Oeuvres - Page 310by Jacques Delille - 1824Full view - About this book
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