| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. (1878–1962). Anthology of Massachusetts Poets. 1922. |
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| Nocturne |
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| NIGHT of infinite power and infinite silence and space, | |
| From you may mortals infer, if ever, the scope divine! | |
| The jealous sun conceals all but his arrogant face, | |
| You bid the Milky Way and a million suns to shine. | |
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| Each star to numberless planets gives light and motion and heat, | 5 |
| But you enmantle them all, the nearest and most remote; | |
| And the lustres of all the suns are but spangles under your feet,— | |
| Mere bubbles and beads of noon, they circle and shine and float. | |
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