O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon,/ Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse / Without all hope of day!
Dim eclipse, disastrous twilight.
It was that fatal and perfidious bark, Built in th' eclipse, and rigg'd with curses dark.
In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds / On half the nations, and with fear of change / Perplexes monarchs.