NIGHT OF STARS
I
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When I behold the sky
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With stars innumerable sprangled bright
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And then the Earth descry
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Encompassed with night
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Buried in sleep, oblivion infinite,
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II
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Sorrow and love arise
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And with a burning fever fill my breast,
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And ever from mine eyes
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The tears flow without rest,
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Till my tongue speaks at length, by grief oppresed:
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III
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O dwelling of great might,
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Temple of lovely light incomparable,
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My soul that to thy height
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At birth aspired, what spell
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Doth in this dark, low prison-house compel?
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IV
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What mortal folly thus
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From truth's possession can remove our sense,
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So that oblivious
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Of thy blest gifts, it thence
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Strays and seeks tinselled joys and vain pretence?
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V
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Man lives imprisoned
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In sleep and recks not of his destiny
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While still with silent tread,
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At Heaven's swift decree,
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Hour after hour his life doth from him flee.
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VI
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Ah mortal men awake
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And turn your thoughts intent upon your loss!
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Shall souls divine forsake
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Such blessings for the cross
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Of life unreal and dull delusion's dross?
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VII
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O skyward lift your eyes,
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Unto this heavenly eternal sphere!
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And you will then despise
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The vain delights that here
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Offers our life, its every hope and fear;
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VIII
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Petty, if we compare
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The fleeting span of this low earthly scene
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With that great region where
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In noblest forms are seen
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What is and what shall be and what hath been.
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IX
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Who sees the eternal fires
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With fixed laws move on their heavenly way,
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How each with each conspires:
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Uneven their array,
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Yet, varying, they one ordered scheme obey;
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X
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How in the moon's clear train,
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As she her silver sphere doth onward move,
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Goes light of wisdom's rain,
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And, gleaming there above,
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Follows, serenely fair, the star of love.
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XI
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But blood-red angry Mars
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Choses unto himself another way,
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While, girt with thousand stars,
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Jupiter, clear alway,
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Benignly calms the heavens with his loved ray;
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XII
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And yonder in the height
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Whirls Saturn, father of the Age of Gold,
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And after him the bright
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Stars in fair choir enrolled
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Their light and all their treasures still unfold;
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XIII
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Who may all this descry
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And pleasure still in this vile Earth retain,
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Who will not groan and sigh
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To rive the imprisoning chain
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XIV
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Lo here dwells sweet content,
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Peace reigns, and on a rich and lofty throne
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Sits holy love, and blent
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Together in its zone
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Delight and honour are evermore at one.
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XV
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Here beauty infinite
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Unveils itself, and light, quintessence pure,
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Transparent gleams: no night
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Its radiance may obscure,
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Spring's flowered splendour here is ever sure.
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XVI
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O fields of truth most fair!
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O meadows verily ever fresh and bright,
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Mines full of riches rare!
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O fountains of delight!
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Deep valleys with a thousand blessings dight!
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Análisis métrico
95
Versos
7
Media silábica
665
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