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The glaring sun hath ceased to shine	A
The solemn stars invade the sky	B
Again the welcome night is mine	A
Wherein to view the worlds on high	B
The night when heaven bares its face	C
And man with reverent soul can trace	C
The awful mysteries of space	C
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Too long the shadeless solar blaze	D
Hath forced my vision toward the sod	E
'Tis night alone that helps us raise	D
Our thoughts from littleness to God	E
And by its darkness sets us free	F
To gaze across what seems to be	F
The portal of Eternity	F
	-
I watch the stellar hosts ascend	G
Their devious paths in slow array	H
And note the place where millions blend	G
To form the fabled Milky Way	H
That zone of radiant suns whose light	I
Hath needed centuries of flight	I
To reach our little earth to night	I
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Through lenses scanned its golden haze	D
Resolves itself to points that glow	J
In one stupendous brilliant maze	D
Of countless orbs that come and go	J
On pathways we may never learn	K
However long their light may burn	K
However ardently we yearn	K
	-
Apparently so densely strewn	L
But oh what gulfs those suns divide	M
As each pursues its course alone	N
Beyond an interval as wide	M
As that which yawns between our own	N
And any of those star seeds sown	N
In astral gardens still unknown	N
	-
Sometimes from that resplendent sheen	O
A new light gleams across the void	P
And awe struck we conceive the scene	O
Of two vast solar orbs destroyed	P
By fearful impact changed again	Q
Unnumbered miles beyond our ken	Q
To leagues of blazing hydrogen	R
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Before such marvels what are we	F
To plume ourselves in foolish pride	M
Within that dim immensity	M
How many suns and earths have died	M
The tiny mote on which we stand	M
However fair and finely planned	M
Is nothing but a grain of sand	M
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To day as through the ages gone	S
By law impelled by law restrained	M
Suns planets systems all sweep on	T
Toward bourns still dark and unexplained	M
Some bright with youth some dull with age	U
Their varied colors well presage	V
Their distance from the final stage	U
	-
For all are doomed at last to die	M
On heaven's blue sea each isle of fire	W
Of all that now enchant the eye	M
Must finally in gloom expire	X
Though all may still roll on unseen	O
As blackened cinders while between	O
Dark lifeless planets intervene	O
	-
And then The mind sinks back in dread	M
Such burnt out worlds may well appal	J
If they must still continue dead	M
And universal night end all	J
But one by one as speed shall fail	J
Each may some rival mass assail	J
Till nebulas again prevail	J
	-
But not for long A refluent spurge	Y
Shall that destructive course reverse	Z
And cause those sun mists to converge	Y
To mould another universe	Z
Again shall constellations rise	A2
And suns and planets light the skies	A2
And man regain his paradise	B2
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For thus with rhythmic sweep sublime	C2
Swings Chaos on to Cosmos then	Q
In ages measureless by time	C2
Rolls Cosmos back to mist again	Q
In one stupendous ebb and flow	J
As aeons come and aeons go	J
With all their freight of weal and woe	J
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Hard cruel hopeless It may be	F
We know too little to decide	M
Yet hope that o'er that starlit sea	F
Some steadfast God directed tide	M
Will one day bear us to a shore	D2
Where we shall find our lost once more	D2
And what was here unknown adore	D2

John L. Stoddard

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