Quotation by Shakespeare

Now entertain conjecture of a time
When creeping murmur and the poring dark
Fills the wide vessel of the universe.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Chorus, in Henry V, act 4, prologue, l. 1-3.

The dark is "poring" because people strain to see.
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