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STARLIGHT MUSINGS.
Ye glorious stars !
Ye shone like blessed spirits of the sky
On Eden's groves and fountains, ere the pall
Of sin had fallen there; ye shone upon
A dark, and wild, and shoreless world of waves,
A lone and billowy desert, when the ark
That held all mortal breath was drifting o'er
The mountain tops; ye shone on Sinai's tall
Anal awful summit, when a mortal man
Was talking face to face with God; ye shone
On Calvary's sacred height, while yet the blood
That flowed to wash the human race from guilt
Was red upon the tree; ye shone on all
The prophets and the patriarchs of old,
And saw their tears as forth they stole and wept
In agony beneath your silent light;
Ye shone upon the meek and reverend heads
Of those who went forth in the strength of God,
To bear His message to a fallen world,
And on the dark brows and the gleaming steel
Of the fierce hosts that spread their prophet's creed
Ye shone like blessed spirits of the sky
On Eden's groves and fountains, ere the pall
Of sin had fallen there; ye shone upon
A dark, and wild, and shoreless world of waves,
A lone and billowy desert, when the ark
That held all mortal breath was drifting o'er
The mountain tops; ye shone on Sinai's tall
Anal awful summit, when a mortal man
Was talking face to face with God; ye shone
On Calvary's sacred height, while yet the blood
That flowed to wash the human race from guilt
Was red upon the tree; ye shone on all
The prophets and the patriarchs of old,
And saw their tears as forth they stole and wept
In agony beneath your silent light;
Ye shone upon the meek and reverend heads
Of those who went forth in the strength of God,
To bear His message to a fallen world,
And on the dark brows and the gleaming steel
Of the fierce hosts that spread their prophet's creed
