Alfred, Lord Tennyson Quote

And the suns of the limitless universe sparkled and shone in the sky, Flashing with fires as of God, but we knew that their light was a lie — Bright as with deathless hone — but, however they sparkled and shone, The dark little worlds running round them were worlds of woe like our own.

Alfred Tennyson's Poetical Works, Despair, Stanza III