Stedman and Hutchinson, comps. A Library of American Literature:
An Anthology in Eleven Volumes. 1891.
Vols. IX–XI: Literature of the Republic, Part IV., 1861–1889
Of the Heavenly Bodies
By Roger Williams (1604?–1683)[A Key into the Language of America. 1643.]
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Yet there ’s no need of Light,
God shines a Sun most glorious,
When Creatures all are Night.
To many Stars their name,
And know their Course and therein do
Excel the English tame.
Whose hand these Candles hold,
Who gives these Stars their Names, himself
More bright ten thousand-fold.