| Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922. | | | | Song: ‘There ’s one great bunch of stars in heaven’ | | By Théophile Marzials (1850–1920) |
| | | THERE ’S one great bunch of stars in heaven | |
| That shines so sturdily, | |
| Where good Saint Peter’s sinewy hand | |
| Holds up the dull gold-wroughten key. | |
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| There ’s eke a little twinkling gem | 5 |
| As green as beryl-blue can be, | |
| The lowest bead the Blessèd Virgin | |
| Shakes a-telling her rosary. | |
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| There ’s one that flashes flames and fire, | |
| No doubt the mighty rubicel | 10 |
| That sparkles from the centre point | |
| I’ the buckler of stout Raphael. | |
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| And also there ’s a little star— | |
| So white, a virgin’s it must be;— | |
| Perhaps the lamp my love in heaven | 15 |
| Hangs out to light the way for me. | | | | |
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