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THE LAST SONG OF THE SPHERES.
Once, when the calm day, in its beauty departing,On lingering light-beams sent farewells to earth,Methought through the golden-barred gates of the sunsetI passed to the land where my spirit had birth.
Afar in the Pleiades gleamed Alcyone;And thither my spirit directed its flight.While powers unseen all around me were hov'ring,A spirit voice whisperèd, "Follow the light!"
Then earth, sun, and planets grew dim to my vision,And, led by the beams that were shining from far,I journeyed through spaces all solemn and silent,Till welcomed at last to that radiant star.
Said one, o'er this Pleiad the guardian angel,"O dweller erewhile of a far solar sphere!Now come unto us from that realm of creation,Both seraphs and angels we welcome thee here.
"Ere long, by the solemn decree of Jehovah,The planets and sun of thy system sublime

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