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Ye quenchless stars! so eloquently bright; Untroubled sentries of the shadowy night, While half the world is lapp’d in blissful dreams, And round the lattice creep your fairy beams, How sweet to gaze upon those placid eyes, In lambent beauty looking from the skies! And when, oblivious of the world, we stray At dead of night along some noiseless way, How the heart mingles with a moon-lit hour, And feels from heaven a sympathetic power! See! not a cloud careers yon pathless deep Of molten azure,—mute as lovely sleep; Full in her pallid light the moon presides, Shrined in a halo, mellowing as she rides; And far around, the forest and the stream Wear the rich garment of her woven beam. The lull’d winds, too, are sleeping in her caves, No stormy prelude rolls upon the waves; Nature is hush’d, as if her works ador’d, Still’d into homage of her living Lord!
Ye quenchless stars! so eloquently bright; Untroubled sentries of the shadowy night, While half the world is lapp’d in blissful dreams, And round the lattice creep your fairy beams, How sweet to gaze upon those placid eyes, In lambent beauty looking from the skies! And when, oblivious of the world, we stray At dead of night along some noiseless way, How the heart mingles with a moon-lit hour, And feels from heaven a sympathetic power! See! not a cloud careers yon pathless deep Of molten azure,—mute as lovely sleep; Full in her pallid light the moon presides, Shrined in a halo, mellowing as she rides; And far around, the forest and the stream Wear the rich garment of her woven beam. The lull’d winds, too, are sleeping in her caves, No stormy prelude rolls upon the waves; Nature is hush’d, as if her works ador’d, Still’d into homage of her living Lord!
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- R. Montgomery (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 419 · printed citation: R. Montgomery · subject: NIGHT
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