<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115329" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ab astris</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I saw the stars swept through ethereal space,<br> Stars, suns, and systems in infinity,---<br> Our earth an atom in the shoreless sea,<br> Where each had its appointed path and place:<br> And I was lost in my own nothingness.<br> But then I said, Dost thou not know that He<br> Who guides these orbs through trackless space guides thee?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> No longer groveling thus, thyself abase,<br> For in this vast, harmonious, perfect whole,<br> In infinite progression moving on,<br> Thou hast thy place, immortal human soul,<br> Thy place and part not less than star and sun;<br> Then with this grand procession fall in line,<br> This rhythmic march led on by power divine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anne+Lynch+Botta">Anne Lynch Botta</a> from <i>Poems</i><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115329" data-title="Ab astris de Anne Lynch Botta" data-description="I saw the stars swept through ethereal space,/ Stars, suns, and systems in infinity,---/ Our earth an atom in the shoreless sea,/ Where each had its appointed path and place:/ And I was lost in my own nothingness./ But then I said, Dost thou ..."></div> </div> </div>

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