Lit2Go

Now night has encompassed the far-fading sea
Where her garbing of death smother low.
The prow of our ship through the black mystery
Unbares the live silver below.

In the wake of our way a treasure vein gleams:
White cataracts streaming of lights:
And cascading jewels of barbaric dreams:
Old wealth of Arabian Nights’.

And now as I look, star galaxies glow:
—Of universe born for a breath;—
And constellar systems in wild orbits, go
On the instant of birth to their death.

And trillion aged planets above me there are:
Yet, these phosphorous worlds are a sign
That more brief is the span of the longest-lived star,
—Compared with mine.