Stars.
OO COLD blue night, and deep the cloudless skyGleams, sown with lucid keen and trembling stars;—A ravishment of glory shines on high,And the rapt soul yearns upward. Fiery MarsShines with a baleful redness in the west;While mail’d Orion, frozenly severe,Stands like an armed skeleton opprestWith centuries of sentinelship. Thro’ clearSmooth ether the keen-silvered Plough upheavesIts seven diamonds; and far awayPoor Cassiopeia for her daughter grieves—Andromeda cold-touch’d by windy spray,While faintly watching with tear-misted eyne,Perseus flying shoreward o’er the gleaming brine.
OO COLD blue night, and deep the cloudless skyGleams, sown with lucid keen and trembling stars;—A ravishment of glory shines on high,And the rapt soul yearns upward. Fiery MarsShines with a baleful redness in the west;While mail’d Orion, frozenly severe,Stands like an armed skeleton opprestWith centuries of sentinelship. Thro’ clearSmooth ether the keen-silvered Plough upheavesIts seven diamonds; and far awayPoor Cassiopeia for her daughter grieves—Andromeda cold-touch’d by windy spray,While faintly watching with tear-misted eyne,Perseus flying shoreward o’er the gleaming brine.
OO COLD blue night, and deep the cloudless skyGleams, sown with lucid keen and trembling stars;—A ravishment of glory shines on high,And the rapt soul yearns upward. Fiery MarsShines with a baleful redness in the west;While mail’d Orion, frozenly severe,Stands like an armed skeleton opprestWith centuries of sentinelship. Thro’ clearSmooth ether the keen-silvered Plough upheavesIts seven diamonds; and far awayPoor Cassiopeia for her daughter grieves—Andromeda cold-touch’d by windy spray,While faintly watching with tear-misted eyne,Perseus flying shoreward o’er the gleaming brine.
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