In some fine fervor of thanksgiving just

For this—that soul and body's power you spent—

Agonized to adumbrate, trace in dust

That marvel which we dream the firmament

Copies in star-device when fancies stray

Outlining, orb by orb, Andromeda—

God's best of beauteous and magnificent

Revealed to earth—the naked female form.

Nay, I mistake not: wrath that's but lukewarm

Would boil indeed were such a critic styled