Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE SONG OF THE STARS, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON


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First Line: In those high heavens, wherein the fair stars flower
Last Line: The waking rapture, and the fair, far place.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Stars


IN those high heavens wherein the fair stars flower,
They do God's praises sound from night till morn,
And till the smiling day is newly born
Chant each to each His glory and His power;
Then, silent, wait, through Day's brief triumph-hour,
Watching till Night shall come again, with scorn
Of those chameleon splendors that adorn
Day's death, and then before his victor cower.

Forever, to immortal ears, they sing, --
These shining stars that praise their Maker's grace --
And from far world to world their anthems ring:
They shine and sing because they see His face
We, cowards, dread the vision Death shall bring,
The waking rapture, and the fair, far place.





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