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{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Wide are the meadows of night And daisies are shining there, Tossing their lovely dews, Lustrous and fair; And through these sweet fields go, ' Wanderers amid the stars— Venus, Mercury, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars. Walter De La Mare—The Wanderers. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Longfellow) The star that bids the shepherd fold, Now the top of heaven doth hold. | author = Milton | work = Cotoms. L. 93. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Stars | page = 750 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = So sinks the day-star in the ocean-bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky. | author = Milton | work = Lycidas. L. 168. Brightest seraph, tell In which of all these shining orbs hath man His fixed seat, or fixed seat hath none, But all these shining orbs his choice to dwell. | author = Milton | work = Paradise Lost. | place = Bk. III. L. 667. At whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish 'H heads. | author = Milton | work = Paradise Lost. | place = Bk. IV. L. 34. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Pope}}) Now glowed the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the Moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. | author = Milton | work = Paradise Lost. | place = Bk. IV. L. 604. The starry cope Of heaven. | author = Milton | work = Paradise Lost. | place = Bk. W. L. 992. And set them in the firmament of heav'n, T' illuminate the earth, and rule the day In their vicissitude, and rule the night. | author = Milton | work = Paradise Lost. | place = Bk. VII. L. 348. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Stars | page = 750 }}
 * And made the stars,