[Note: the original text had two footnotes 160 and two footnotes 396. I have indicated these by naming them 160a and b, and 396a and b. In the Index, I changed the spelling of "Aglonquins" to "Algonquins. All other spelling remains the same.]
VOYAGING TO THE MOON
From Domingo Gonsales [A.D. 1638]
See page 46.
MOON LORE
BY THE
REV. TIMOTHY HARLEY, F.R.A.S.
"And when the clear moon, with its soothing influences, rises full in my view,--from the wall-like rocks, out of the damp underwood, the silvery forms of past ages hover up to me, and soften the austere pleasure of contemplation."
Goethe's "Faust." Hayward's Translation, London, 1855, p. 100.
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"I beheld the moon walking in brightness."--Job xxxi. 26.
"The moon and the stars, which Thou hast ordained."--Psalm viii. 3.
"Who is she that looketh forth, fair as the moon?"--Solomon's Song vi. 10.
"The precious things put forth by the moon."--Deuteronomy xxxiii. 14.
"Soon as the evening shades prevail,
The moon takes up the wondrous tale."--Addison's Ode.
"In fall-orbed glory, yonder moon Divine
Rolls through the dark-blue depths."--Southey's Thalaba.
"Queen of the silver bow! by thy pale beam,
Alone and pensive, I delight to stray,
And watch thy shadow trembling in the stream,
Or mark the floating clouds that cross thy way;
And while I gaze, thy mild and placid light
Sheds a soft calm upon my troubled breast:
And oft I think-fair planet of the night--
That in thy orb the wretched may have rest;
The sufferers of the earth perhaps may go--
Released by death-to thy benignant sphere;
And the sad children of despair and woe
Forget in thee their cup of sorrow here.
Oh that I soon may reach thy world serene,
Poor wearied pilgrim in this toiling scene!"
--Charlotte Smith.