Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ARCTURUS LENDS HIS LIGHT, by MARIE D'AUTREMONT GERRY


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ARCTURUS LENDS HIS LIGHT, by                    
First Line: Arcturus! Shepherd of the crimson beams
Last Line: To light an exposition with a star.
Subject(s): Light


Arcturus! shepherd of the crimson beams,
Thou lovely radiance of summer night,
Whose constant benediction gently streams
From out the heavens, forty years of light
Away, what vagrant dream directed thee
To fan thy living spark into a flame
Blazing a trail across infinity,
Giving to science an enduring name?

"Or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?"
Yea, over highways of celestial sod,
Where only silver heel of star mist runs,
Where only wing the cosmic rays of God.
Man's vision leaps another earthly bar,
To light an exposition with a star.





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