BY PROF. M. B. GOFF,
Western University of Pennsylvania.
THE SUN.
“Now when the cheerless empire of the sky
To Capricorn the Centaur Archer yields,
And fierce Aquarius stains the inverted year;
Hung o’er the farthest verge of heaven, the Sun
Scarce spreads o’er ether the dejected day.
Faint are his gleams, and ineffectual shoot
His struggling rays in horizontal lines,