_Lux venit in mundum, sed dilexerunt homines magis tenebras quam lucem._
Joan. iii. 19.
Luce sua venit ecce Deus, mundoque refulget;
Pergit adhuc tenebras mundus amare suas.
At Stygiis igitur mundus damnabitur umbris:
Pergit adhuc tenebras mundus amare suas?
_But men loved darkness rather than light._
The world's Light shines: shine as it will,
The world will love its darknesse still.
I doubt though, when the world's in hell,
It will not love its darknesse halfe so well. CR.