horses of the night

"Ah, Faustus,
Now hast thou but one bare hour to live,
And then thou must be damn’d perpetually!

Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of Heaven,
That time may cease, and midnight never come;
Fair Nature’s eye, rise, rise again and make
Perpetual day; or let this hour be but
A year, a month, a week, a natural day,
That Faustus may repent and save his soul!

O lente, lente, curite noctis equi.

The stars move still, 2 time runs, the clock will strike,
The Devil will come, and Faustus must be damn’d..."

-- christopher marlowe (1564–1593). doctor faustus. scene xiv.