In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where …

Samuel Johnson
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In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die. ✨ Samuel Johnson (1787). The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In Eleven Volumes ..., p.366
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