Fig. 715 - A field of faint nebulae. Between each pair of white lines on the original plate from which this picture is reproduced, can be detected a faint smudge - all that can be seen of galaxies at the extreme limit of our observation. (L. Rudaux, Larousse, 1949)
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Fig. 544 - A Beach Photographed At Low Tide By The Light Of The Night Sky (L. Rudaux, Larousse, 1949)...
Stars
Float from the borders of the main.
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Above
The vast of heaven stung with brilliant stars.
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The million sorts of unaccounted motes
There is no parting or bare interstice
Where the stint compass of a skylark's wings
Would not put out some tiny golden centre.
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Stars waving their indivisible rays.
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A star most spiritual, principal, preeminint
Of all the golden press.
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Or ever the early stirrings of the skylark
Might cover the neighbor downs with a span of singing...
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~ Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins, fragments on stars, from the journals, September to December 1864
