GEORGE DARLEY
651 The Fallen Star
STAR is gone ! a star is gone ' LTherc is a blank in Heaven; One of the cherub choir has done His airy course this even.
He sat upon the orb of fire
That hung for ages there, And lent his music to the choir
That haunts the nightly air.
But when his thousand years are pass'd,
With a cherubic sigh He vanish'd with his car at last,
For even cherubs die'
Hear how his angel-brothers mourn The minstrels of the spheres
Each chiming sadly in his turn And dropping splendid tears.
The planetary sisters all
Join in the fatal song, And weep this hapless brother's fall,
Who sang with them so long.
But deepest of the choral band
The Lunar Spirit sings, And with a bass-according hand
Sweeps all her sullen strings.
From the deep chambers of the dome
Where sleepless Uriel lies, His rude harmonic thunders come
Mingled with mighty sighs.
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