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from Blue Dark
by Deborah Landau
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But Men Loved Darkness Rather Than Light  
by Richard Crashaw

The world's light shines, shine as it will,
The world will love its darkness still.
I doubt though when the world's in hell,
It will not love its darkness half so well.



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