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in the affluent splendor of the day,
 * To heaven's cloudless blue I lift my eyes,
 * Thrilled with the beauty that around me lies,

My heart goes up on wings of ecstasy; But when Orion and the Milky Way
 * Reveal the story of the midnight skies,
 * And all the starry hosts of space arise—

Mutely I bow in reverence to pray.

And so with life; the daylight of success
 * Rounds earth and pleasure to a perfect sphere,

But in the night of trial and distress
 * The quickened soul to vaster realms draws near,

And o'er the borders of our consciousness
 * Foretokens of the Infinite appear.