| George William (“A. E.”) Russell (1867–1935). Collected Poems by A.E. 1913. |
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| 13. Star Teachers |
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| EVEN as a bird sprays many-coloured fires, | |
| The plumes of paradise, the dying light | |
| Rays through the fevered air in misty spires | |
| That vanish in the heights. | |
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| These myriad eyes that look on me are mine; | 5 |
| Wandering beneath them I have found again | |
| The ancient ample moment, the divine, | |
| The God-root within men. | |
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| For this, for this the lights innumerable | |
| As symbols shine that we the true light win: | 10 |
| For every star and every deep they fill | |
| Are stars and deeps within. | |
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