Then up a steep and dark and narrow stairWe wound, until the torches’ fiery tongueAmid the gushing day beamless and pallid hung.
1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, page 211