Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume IV. The Higher Life. 1904. | | | | VII. Death: Immortality: Heaven | | Star-Mist | | John Keble (1792–1866) |
| | From “Stars”
MORE and more stars! behold yon hazy arch | |
| Spanning the vault on high, | |
| By planets traversed in majestic march, | |
| Seeming to earth’s dull eye | |
| A breath of gleaming air: but take thou wing | 5 |
| Of Faith and upward spring:— | |
| Into a thousand stars the misty light | |
| Will part; each star a world with its own day and night. | |
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| Not otherwise of yonder Saintly host | |
| Upon the glorious shore | 10 |
| Deem thou. He marks them all, not one is lost; | |
| By name He counts them o’er. | |
| Full many a soul, to man’s dim praise unknown, | |
| May on its glory throne | |
| As brightly shine, and prove as strong in prayer | 15 |
| As theirs, whose separate beams shoot keenest thro’ this air. | | | | |
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