Philip James Bailey on Nature
1816–1902 England
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The sun, centre and sire of light,
The keystone of the world-built arch of heaven.
Festus (1813)
The course of Nature seems a course of Death,
And nothingness the whole substantial thing.
Festus (1813)
See the gold sunshine patching,
And streaming and streaking across
The gray-green oaks; and catching,
By its soft brown beard, the moss.
Festus (1813)
Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power
Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon
It works, on e'er self-transmutative form,
Common to now the living, now the dead.
Festus (1813)
See the sun!
God's crest upon His azure shield, the Heavens.
Festus (1813)
I love night more than day—she is so lovely;
But I love night the most because she brings
My love to me in dreams which scarcely lie.
Festus (1813)
Night comes, world-jewelled, * * *
The stars rush forth in myriads as to wage
War with the lines of Darkness; and the moon,
Pale ghost of Night, comes haunting the cold earth
After the sun's red sea-death—quietless.
Festus (1813)