<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=117935" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Apollo</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">What are stars, but hieroglyphics of God's glory write in lightning<br> On the wide-unfolded pages of the azure scroll above?<br>But the quenchless apotheoses of thoughts forever brightening<br> In the mighty Mind immortal of the God whose name is Love?<br>Diamond letters sculptured, rising, on the azure ether pages,<br> That now sing to one another--unto one another shine--<br>God's eternal scripture talking, through the midnight, to the Ages,<br> Of the life that is immortal, but the life that is divine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like some deep impetuous river from the fountains everlasting,<br> Down the serpentine soft valleys of the vistas of all Time,<br>Over cataracts of adamant uplifted unto mountains,<br> Soared his soul to God in thunder on the wings of thought sublime.<br>With the rising golden glory of the sun in ministrations,<br> Making oceans metropolitan of splendor for the dawn--<br>Piling pyramid on pyramid of music for the nations--<br> Sings the Angel who sits shining everlasting in the sun,<br> For the stars, which are the echoes of the shining of the sun.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like the lightning piled on lightnings, ever rising, never reaching,<br> In one monument of glory towards the golden gates of God--<br>Voicing out themselves in thunder upon thunder in their preaching,<br> Piled this Cyclop up his Epic where the Angels never trod.<br>Like the fountains everlasting that forever more are flowing<br> From the throne within the centre of the City built on high,<br>With their genial irrigation life forever more bestowing--<br> Flows his lucid, liquid river through the gardens of the sky,<br> For the stars forever blooming in the gardens of the sky.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Thomas+Holley+Chivers">Thomas Holley Chivers</a><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=117935" data-title="Apollo de Thomas Holley Chivers" data-description="What are stars, but hieroglyphics of God's glory write in lightning/ On the wide-unfolded pages of the azure scroll above?/But the quenchless apotheoses of thoughts forever brightening/ In the mighty Mind immortal of the God whose name is Love?/Di..."></div> </div> </div>

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