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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LOOK DOWN, YOU WATCHERS, by MARGARET WITTER FULLER
First Line: You watchers of the stars in the clear night
Last Line: And die, not seeing one retreating bar.
First Line: You watchers of the stars in the clear night
Last Line: And die, not seeing one retreating bar.
You watchers of the stars in the clear night,
You who have marked and weighed their constant pace,
And nightly tell the instant and the place
Where each will reappear or pass from sight;
Look down, you watchers -- scan the timeless fight
By finite beings of a fleeting race
To track eternity, to transcend space,
Transcend disease, transcend the source of light.
It is no sight less earthly than of star
To see a mortal man, regardless death,
Regardless multitudes without a dream,
Fight on to push the flicker of a gleam,
Fight to resolve the essence of a breath
And die, not seeing one retreating bar.
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