the twilight thereof that is, the morning twilight of that night. Let its morning stars, that should herald its day, go out as the next clause explains: let it look for the light of a day that never breaks.

see the dawning of the day lit. behold the eyelids of the morning. This beautiful figure looks like an idea from Western poetry, just as the chamber of the Sun, Psalms 19:5. All commentators quote the parallel from Sophocles, χρυσέας ἁ μέρας βλέφαρον, Antigone, 103.

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