Other Stars

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <h3>BY</h3> <h2>JULIANA HORATIA EWING.</h2> <h2><SPAN name="OTHER_STARS" id="OTHER_STARS"></SPAN>OTHER STARS.</h2> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">The night is dark, and yet it is not quite:<br/></span> <span class="i1">Those stars are hid that other orbs may shine;<br/></span> <span class="i0">Twin stars, whose rays illuminate the night,<br/></span> <span class="i1">And cheer her gloom, but only deepen mine;<br/></span> <span class="i2">For these fair stars are not what they do seem,<br/></span> <span class="i2">But vanish'd eyes remember'd in a dream.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">The night is dark, and yet it brings no rest;<br/></span> <span class="i1">Those eager eyes gaze on and banish sleep;<br/></span> <span class="i0">Though flaming Mars has lower'd his crimson crest,<br/></span> <span class="i1">And weary Venus pales into the deep,<br/></span> <span class="i2">These two with tender shining mock my woe<br/></span> <span class="i2">From out the distant heaven of long ago.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">The night is dark, and yet how bright they gleam!<br/></span> <span class="i1">Oh! empty vision of a vanish'd light!<br/></span> <span class="i0">Sweet eyes! must you for ever be a dream<br/></span> <span class="i1">Deep in my heart, and distant from my sight?<br/></span> <span class="i2">For could you shine as once you shone before,<br/></span> <span class="i2">The stars might hide their rays for evermore!<br/></span></div> </div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />