The golden lair

spider and web in evening light
Evening light gilds a spider and its web.

The spider’s touch, how exquisitely fine!
Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.

Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man, I (1733), l.217

All that glisters is not gold,
Often have you heard that told.

William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, II.vii

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