• When from the vaulted wonder of the sky
    The curtain of the light is drawn aside,
    And I behold the stars in all their wide
    Significance and glorious mystery,
    Assured that those more distant orbs are suns
    Round which innumerable worlds revolve,—
    My faith grows strong, my day-born doubts dissolve,
    And death, that dread annulment which life...