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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=409550" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Occultation of Orion, The</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=409550" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">I saw, as in a dream sublime,<br>The balance in the hand of Time.<br>O'er East and West its beam impended;<br>And day, with all its hours of light,<br>Was slowly sinking out of sight,<br>While, opposite, the scale of night<br>Silently with the stars ascended.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=409550" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Like the astrologers of eld,<br>In that bright vision I beheld<br>Greater and deeper mysteries.<br>I saw, with its celestial keys,<br>Its chords of air, its frets of fire,<br>The Samian's great Aeolian lyre,<br>Rising through all its sevenfold bars,<br>From earth unto the fixed stars.<br>And through the dewy atmosphere,<br>Not only could I see, but hear,<br>Its wondrous and harmonious strings,<br>In sweet vibration, sphere by sphere,<br>From Dian's circle light and near,<br>Onward to vaster and wider rings.<br>Where, chanting through his beard of snows,<br>Majestic, mournful, Saturn goes,<br>And down the sunless realms of space<br>Reverberates the thunder of his bass.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=409550" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Beneath the sky's triumphal arch<br>This music sounded like a march,<br>And with its chorus seemed to be<br>Preluding some great tragedy.<br>Sirius was rising in the east;<br>And, slow ascending one by one,<br>The kindling constellations shone.<br>Begirt with many a blazing star,<br>Stood the great giant Algebar,<br>Orion, hunter of the beast!<br>His sword hung gleaming by his side,<br>And, on his arm, the lion's hide<br>Scattered across the midnight air<br>The golden radiance of its hair.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=409550" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">The moon was pallid, but not faint;<br>And beautiful as some fair saint,<br>Serenely moving on her way<br>In hours of trial and dismay.<br>As if she heard the voice of God,<br>Unharmed with naked feet she trod<br>Upon the hot and burning stars,<br>As on the glowing coals and bars,<br>That were to prove her strength, and try<br>Her holiness and her purity.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=409550" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Thus moving on, with silent pace,<br>And triumph in her sweet, pale face,<br>She reached the station of Orion.<br>Aghast he stood in strange alarm!<br>And suddenly from his outstretched arm<br>Down fell the red skin of the lion<br>Into the river at his feet.<br>His mighty club no longer beat<br>The forehead of the bull; but he<br>Reeled as of yore beside the sea,<br>When, blinded by Oenopion,<br>He sought the blacksmith at his forge,<br>And, climbing up the mountain gorge,<br>Fixed his blank eyes upon the sun.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=409550" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Then, through the silence overhead,<br>An angel with a trumpet said,<br>"Forevermore, forevermore,<br>The reign of violence is o'er!"<br>And, like an instrument that flings<br>Its music on another's strings,<br>The trumpet of the angel cast<br>Upon the heavenly lyre its blast,<br>And on from sphere to sphere the words<br>Re-echoed down the burning chords,--<br>"Forevermore, forevermore,<br>The reign of violence is o'er!"</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=Henry+Wadsworth+Longfellow">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</a></strong></div>