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kate harper - william cullen bryant - hymn to the north star lyrics

the sad and solemn night
hath yet her multitude of cheerful fires;
the glorious host of light
walk the dark hemisphere till she retires;
all through her silent watches, gliding slow
her constellations come, and climb the heavens, and go

day, too, hath many a star
to grace his gorgeous reign, as bright as they:
through the blue fields afar
unseen, they follow in his flaming way:
many a bright lingerer, as the eve grows dim
tells what a radiant troop arose and set with him

and thou dost see them rise
star of the pole! and thou dost see them set
alone, in thy cold skies
thou keep’st thy old unmoving station yet
nor join’st the dances of that glittering train
nor dipp’st thy virgin orb in the blue western main

there, at morn’s rosy birth
thou lookest meekly through the kindling air
and eve, that round the earth
chases the day, beholds thee watching there;
there noontide finds thee, and the hour that calls
the shapes of polar flame to scale heaven’s azure walls
alike, beneath thine eye
the deeds of darkness and of light are done;
high towards the star+lit sky
towns blaze, the smoke of battle blots the sun
the night+storm on a thousand hills is loud
and the strong wind of day doth mingle sea and cloud

on thy unaltering blaze
the half+wrecked mariner, his compass lost
fixes his steady gaze
and steers, undoubting, to the friendly coast;
and they who stray in perilous wastes, by night
are glad when thou dost shine to guide their footsteps right

and, therefore, bards of old
sages, and hermits of the solemn wood
did in thy beams behold
a beauteous type of that unchanging good
that bright eternal beacon, by whose ray
the voyager of time should shape his heedful way

- kate harper lyrics

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