In distant splendour meet thy gaze:
Each is a world by Him sustain’d
Who from eternity hath reign’d.
Each, kindled not for earth alone,
Hath circling planets of its own,
And beings whose existence springs
From Him, the all-powerful King of Kings.
Mrs. Hemans.
Ye stars! bright legions that before all time,
Camped on yon plain of sapphire, what shall tell