| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| The Night Sky |
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| O DEEP of Heaven, ’t is thou alone art boundless, | |
| ’T is thou alone our balance shall not weigh, | |
| ’T is thou alone our fathom-line finds soundless,— | |
| Whose infinite our finite must obey! | |
| Through thy blue realms and down thy starry reaches | 5 |
| Thought voyages forth beyond thy furthest fire, | |
| And homing from no sighted shoreline, teaches | |
| Thee measureless as is the soul’s desire. | |
| O deep of Heaven! No beam of Pleiad ranging | |
| Eternity may bridge thy gulf of spheres! | 10 |
| The ceaseless hum that fills thy sleep unchanging | |
| Is rain of the innumerable years. | |
| Our worlds, our suns, our ages,—these but stream | |
| Through thine abiding like a dateless dream. | |
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