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Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.

VII. Death: Immortality: Heaven

Star-Mist

John Keble (1792–1866)

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

Of Faith and upward spring:—

Into a thousand stars the misty light

Will part; each star a world with its own day and night.

Not otherwise of yonder Saintly host

Upon the glorious shore

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

As theirs, whose separate beams shoot keenest thro’ this air.