A STELLAR RHYTHM
(Cosmic Songs)
Across the heavens the Stars are spilled
Like the heathery flowers of spring,
Tenderly led by the breath of time
They dance in an exulting, joyous ring.
We can barely see them up on high,
To number them, you I would defy.
Though a master at numbers and answers
The Earth and the Moon glide hand in hand,
While the Earth sweeps in a mighty sphere
Around the Sun that shines above,
With a host of planets, lustrous, clear . . .
And even the timeless, burning Sun
Madly revolves ‘round another One.
And where is this Sun heading?
Whither its light is shedding?
Let your thoughts soar as they may;
There the stars are as thick as the heathery bloom;
And though you were as old as the Sun itself
Your thoughts could not fathom eternity’s doom.
I kneel and gaze at the heaven’s face,
My thoughts fly upward into space,
Higher and higher, above the skies . . .
A tear over fills the gazing eyes.
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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was legally published within the United States (or the United Nations Headquarters in New York subject to Section 7 of the United States Headquarters Agreement) between 1929 and 1977 (inclusive) without a copyright notice. The longest-living author of this work died in 1987, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 36 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.
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