
"Be Strong".
Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses (1858)
Source: Jack of Shadows (1971), Chapter 2 (p. 19)
"Be Strong".
Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses (1858)
The Lost Star from The Literary Souvenir, 1828
The Vow of the Peacock (1835)
Bright Side of the Road
Song lyrics, Into the Music (1979)
“How very bright this empire of stars, he mused. Which poet had said that?”
Source: The Bone House (2011), p. 55
Part 2, Book 1, Ch. 2
Variant translation: What makes night within us may leave stars.
Source: Ninety-Three (1874)
Context: Cimourdain was a pure-minded but gloomy man. He had "the absolute" within him. He had been a priest, which is a solemn thing. Man may have, like the sky, a dark and impenetrable serenity; that something should have caused night to fall in his soul is all that is required. Priesthood had been the cause of night within Cimourdain. Once a priest, always a priest.
Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background.
Source: The Separate Notebooks