A glowing lantern floats above a small farmhouse and trees in a dark blue landscape beneath an orange evening sky.

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John Milton

What hath night to do with sleep?

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A rhetorical question implying that night and sleep have little to do with each other. The speaker seems to treat night as a time for waking pleasures and activity rather than rest, dismissing the idea that darkness is meant for slumber.

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