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Now twilight lets her curtain down
And pins it with a star.
Now twilight lets her curtain down
And pins it with a star.
The spacious firmament on high,
With all the blue ethereal sky,
And spangled heavens, a shining frame,
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The spacious firmament on high,
With all the blue ethereal sky,
And spangled heavens, a shining frame,
Their great Original proclaim.
Forever singing, as they shine,
The hand that made us is divine.
Or soar aloft to be the spangled skies
And gaze upon her with a thousand eyes.
Or soar aloft to be the spangled skies
And gaze upon her with a thousand eyes.
Where Andes, giant of the western star,
With meteor standard to the winds unfurl'd.
Where Andes, giant of the western star,
With meteor standard to the winds unfurl'd.
Like the lost pleiad seen no more below.
Like the lost pleiad seen no more below.
In yonder pensile orb, and every sphere
That gems the starry girdle of the year.
In yonder pensile orb, and every sphere
That gems the starry girdle of the year.
While twilight's curtain gathering far,
Is pinned with a single diamond star.
While twilight's curtain gathering far,
Is pinned with a single diamond star.
No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars.
[Lat., Quod est ante pedes read more
No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars.
[Lat., Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur
plagas.]
The stars,
Which stand as thick as dewdrops on the fields
Of heaven.
The stars,
Which stand as thick as dewdrops on the fields
Of heaven.
