 One other point , already mentioned , was how to deal with the problem of rendering the poem ’ s fourth line . Gray remarked to Anstey , “ ’ That leaves the world to darkness and to me ’ is good English , but has not the turn of a Latin phrase , and therefore , I believe , you were in the right to drop it . ” In fact , all that Anstey had dropped was reproducing an example of zeugma with a respectable Classical history , but only in favour of replicating the same understated introduction of the narrator into the scene : et solus sub nocte relinqor ( and I alone am left under the night ) . Some other translators , with other priorities , found elegant means to render the original turn of speech exactly . 
