Spell

“Soon fades the spell, soon comes the night:

Say will it not be then the same,

Whether we played the black or white,

Whether we lost or won the game?”

-Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay,

“Sermon in a Churchyard” (1825), quoted in “The Miscellaneous Writings of Lord Macaulay, Vol. II” (1860)