To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.
Beyond is all abyss, eternity, whose end no eye can reach.
If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble.
Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.
O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!
Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.