"For, you trow, nuncle, The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long, That it's had it head bit off by it young. So, out went the candle, and we were left darkling."
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William Shakespeare, in King Lear, Act I:IV
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Darkling
Darkling is a word that was initially used adverbially, modifying a verb, (e.g. leaving darkling, with the sense leaving in a dark sort of way); developing uses encompassed its use as an adjective (a darkling footpath), and as a noun. It may have moral reverberations - so that for example in Henry Porter's play Two Angry Women of Abingdon, it has the association with deeds which are 'shady'. Coleridge used it when he was talking about the Christian soul - (in Religious Musings, Christmas Eve, 17
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