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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE STARRY HOST, by JOHN LANCASTER SPALDING Poet's Biography
First Line: The countless stars, which to our human eye
Last Line: So that for them to be is to advance?
First Line: The countless stars, which to our human eye
Last Line: So that for them to be is to advance?
THE countless stars, which to our human eye
Are fixed and steadfast, each in proper place,
Forever bound to changeless points in space,
Rush with our sun and planets through the sky,
And like a flock of birds still onward fly;
Returning never whence began their race,
They speed their ceaseless way with gleaming face
As though God bade them win Infinity.
Ah whither, whither is their forward flight
Through endless time and limitless expanse?
What power with unimaginable might
First hurled them forth to spin in tireless dance?
What beauty lures them on through primal night,
So that for them to be is to advance?
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