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. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MODERN PARAPHRASE OF SHAKESPEARE'S SONNET 29 by GEORGE SANTAYANA THE DESERTED HOUSE by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE A TEMPLE TO FRIENDSHIP by THOMAS MOORE PEG OF LIMAVADDY by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY BEAUTY by KENNETH SLADE ALLING THE INCURABLE; A SONG by PHILIP AYRES |