Watchers of the Sky

s gossiped id

lay dying

g of friends, wi

er, in that dark

one dim crev

o watch t

ook ha

at last; but

im see i

ave alt

oved in full, th

his discoverie

thousand times

ear out th

susp

ll be don

t back

iest's voice in

it. Those la

at rest, and br

quietly to th

t a little, a

te deathbed

orld a world w

narrow room, th

h thought, lit b

those glo

ce had looked be

ancient firma

boundle

e him

e bowed shadow

an watched him

ciscan murmured

ntly on t

rew s

the wine was li

of those far ce

ying soldier,

nd to others,

tain, and th

ispered, in a

th. But you mus

doorway, for a

the work is

weapons, doct

ouch one cop

not brou

promi

be here by

of y

it. I can

till

rought it yet?-

e me. I must

afe, for othe

en. My use wou

ed them? Will

hat my strength

book would be

easier pillo

ern in the en

its strugglin

all a bushel

ut forever.

day, I could n

t, when the ni

perhaps, it

guide us for t

three stages

bask conten

aylight shows u

ver, in some

ong the sunli

d, where all ou

shrink, and lose

eath draws neare

estic shadow

wledge, reco

fe I pondered

earth the centr

eeled around b

rystal sphere wh

er stars were f

ce,-one mighty

nd this dark

ht, with even p

r, not alterin

their stations,

ving firmamen

the Pole. Fixed

in that vast u

inking all tho

ns, divided f

a gulf that,

agues an hour a

m one hair's-bre

conceivabl

ily kneel to

r hope on th

aunt me, then.

aos. Many dis

ve in lucid

e more baffling

mous heavens mu

journey th

ch the lightning

reeping on the

th softly on

evolution a

ing selves tha

ve. Have not

ion baffling

t, art? Men thi

ls, the very hea

os, light, and

hed the plane

x and wane fro

ved, now near, no

t be their cen

ord then, as P

arth, so 'stabli

lso? Did i

If this were t

n in this wo

maelstrom whe

o the dark, c

ought we knew.

esty, we who w

s on this prou

whole bright f

cial glory,

on our midge

n imme

ld no

lightly. I w

ear, until I

me-have they not

endous music c

pernal music

ht that shone whe

lost star coul

would shrink fro

eternal

at th

l of man can soa

ild wings that

s beneath us.

hen. If its own

mmensities of

ch its own ce

ight was neede

its own king

ature. So, in

must speak th

rought it? What

ell me the tru

ur, the Church

t the Church, bu

darkness

this

well. If the p

nd us, to the

wisdom per

ess, where the

all her ag

e of doubt, pe

sional host of

rs round

I s

f, but for th

re from those w

the torch who

they strained. I

t, only a lit

hose that wait

ll carry it

il them. Look

llen, with their

nting to

far

yptians built

funnels pointi

e Pharaohs from

t long upon t

Arab crept fr

h across those w

-have they not

ished it one s

lood all beat

int those ver

nting at that

ll our knowledg

e moved to

ou r

lsa? They would

the night I wr

se bowed shadows

other croonin

words he wrot

thay, in

western w

he moving

as by a sh

upon their

is fire to

he deeper

pearl and to

brown hand

, upon the

nd Scorpions

nd failed-to

footprints

sand forgot

glyphs were

rt naked t

of the pur

Raschid bu

watched a th

ir legends,

s down, the

bes are wreck

itters o

lamp is in

lon, in

heir tablets

year, inscr

clipses of

he moving

Mene, on

hadow cloaks

is clay i

d towards him

th a cry, upra

cannot see it

ring on t

is

, now. Draw thos

e with starli

d in mine . .

now . . . light

lm whose darknes