Song of Light
Space, the mind of man outreaching, Stretching to infinity;Can aught bring thee, all dividing Stubborn distance, to thy knee?
I can never find a limit On from sun to sun I race,Touching lightly on the planet Islands of the sea of space.
In my youth I dreamed a border Must be built about it all,And I thought to it to wander, And peer o'er some outer wall.
But I little knew existence, Little guessed the starry slopes,And deception of that distance To the summit of my hopes.
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