<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=348087" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Alcyone</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the silent depth of space,<br>Immeasurably old, immeasurably far,<br>Glittering with a silver flame<br>Through eternity,<br>Rolls a great and burning star,<br>With a noble name,<br>Alcyone!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the glorious chart of heaven<br>It is marked the first of seven;<br>'Tis a Pleiad:<br>And a hundred years of earth<br>With their long-forgotten deeds have come and gone,<br>Since that tiny point of light,<br>Once a splendour fierce and bright,<br>Had its birth<br>In the star we gaze upon.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It has travelled all that time--<br>Thought has not a swifter flight--<br>Through a region where no faintest gust<br>Of life comes ever, but the power of night<br>Dwells stupendous and sublime,<br>Limitless and void and lonely,<br>A region mute with age, and peopled only<br>With the dead and ruined dust<br>Of worlds that lived eternities ago.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Man! when thou dost think of this,<br>And what our earth and its existence is,<br>The half-blind toils since life began,<br>The little aims, the little span,<br>With what passion and what pride,<br>And what hunger fierce and wide,<br>Thou dost break beyond it all,<br>Seeking for the spirit unconfined<br>In the clear abyss of mind<br>A shelter and a peace majestical.<br>For what is life to thee,<br>Turning toward the primal light,<br>With that stern and silent face,<br>If thou canst not be<br>Something radiant and august as night,<br>Something wide as space?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Therefore with a love and gratitude divine<br>Thou shalt cherish in thine heart for sign<br>A vision of the great and burning star,<br>Immeasurably old, immeasurably far,<br>Surging forth its silver flame<br>Through eternity;<br>And thine inner heart shall ring and cry<br>With the music strange and high,<br>The grandeur of its name<br>Alcyone!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Archibald+Lampman">Archibald Lampman</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=348087" data-title="Alcyone de Archibald Lampman" data-description="In the silent depth of space, Immeasurably old, immeasurably far, Glittering with a silver flame Through eternity, Rolls a great and burning star, With a noble name, Alcyone! In the glorious chart of heaven It is marked the first of seven; 'Tis a..."></div> </div> </div>

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