Received from the translucent skies

The stellar groups and galaxies;

A record of the starry waste,

By Nature's faultless pencil traced;

The vernal phalanxes of pine,

In cassocks clear and crystalline,

Seemed as a mirror, in whose sheen

The glimmering lamps of night were seen.

The replica of pearl and gem,

In heaven's twinkling diadem;