““It’s a dark night, sang the kettle, and the rotten leaves are lying by the way; and, above, all is mist and darkness, and, below, all is mire and clay; and there’s only one relief in all the sad and murky air; and I don’t know that it is one, for it’s nothing but a glare; of deep and angry crimson, where the sun and wind together; set a brand upon the clouds for being guilty of such weather; and the widest open country is a long dull streak of black; and there’s hoar–frost on the finger–post, and thaw upon the track; and the ice it isn’t water, and the water isn’t free; and you couldn’t say that anything is what it ought to be; but he’s coming, coming, coming!—””
![“The sky too is deep, the water immeasurably deep. Of heaven and earth we know nothing [unnamed poet]” quote by Alan Booth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/34e/alan-booth-105452_heaven-and-earth_the-sky-too-is-deep-the-water-immeasurab_179454.jpg)
