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