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. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...I'VE NOTHING TO OFFER by DAVID IGNATOW FREE FANTASIA ON JAPANESE THEMES by AMY LOWELL |