Lewis Carroll Quote

O bitter is it to abide
In weariness alway:
At dawn to sigh for eventide,
At eventide for day.
Thy noon hath fled: thy sun hath shone:
The brightness of thy day is gone:
What need to lag and linger on
Till life be cold and gray?

The Valley of the Shadow of Death (1868). - Three Sunsets and Other Poems (1898)