The blue-breast bird of space his fan outspread,

And shook the starry splendour o’er my head—

A wood of eyes that wonder at the world,

Glassed in the world’s eyes’ wonder, scanned and read:

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Each burning orb that did the sky emblaze

Upon my spirit lone cast piercing gaze;

World beyond world enringed, and suns aflame

Shot from night’s spangled cloud their storm of rays.

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