Standing erect the farthest Eastern shore on,
And many thousand stars, above those coasts,
Flashed like the Arabic of a fiery Koran;
Then those great captains of the heavenly hosts,
Orion, Sirius, and Aldebóran,
On the dark field of Heaven took their stations;
And calmly wheeled the close-ranked constellations.
No outposts of the Morn marked the approach
Of the Hœlios’ chariot; no gleams, or tinges
Upon the tent of Darkness dared encroach;