Obscura caeli verius umbra quam lux, nocti similis, premit terram, vix ut quae  prope sunt conspici possint.
What may be called a dim shadow of the sky rather than light, and resembling night, broods over the earth, so that objects which are near at hand can hardly be made  out.
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