benight

How far might I have been on my way by this time! I am made to tread thoſe ſteps thrice over, which I needed not to have trod but once: Yea now alſo I am like to be benighted, for the day is almost ſpent.

The King with half the East at heel is marched from lands of morning; / Their fighters drink the rivers up, their shafts benight the air.

Can we whose souls are lighted

With Wisdom from on high,

Can we to men benighted

The lamp of life deny?