George Darley: The Fallen Star
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The Fallen Star

1795-1846


A STAR is gone! a star is gone!
         There is a blank in Heaven;
One of the cherub choir has done
         His airy course this even.

He sat upon the orb of fire
         That hung for ages there,
And lent his music to the choir
         That haunts the nightly air.

But when his thousand years are pass'd,
         With a cherubic sigh
He vanish'd with his car at last,
         For even cherubs die!

Hear how his angel-brothers mourn--
         The minstrels of the spheres--
Each chiming sadly in his turn
         And dropping splendid tears.

The planetary sisters all
         Join in the fatal song,
And weep this hapless brother's fall,
         Who sang with them so long.

But deepest of the choral band
         The Lunar Spirit sings,
And with a bass-according hand
         Sweeps all her sullen strings.

From the deep chambers of the dome
         Where sleepless Uriel lies,
His rude harmonic thunders come
         Mingled with mighty sighs.

The thousand car-bourne cherubim,
         The wandering eleven,
All join to chant the dirge of him
         Who fell just now from Heaven.


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