“Sky—what a scowl of cloud
Till, near and far,
Ray on ray split the shroud:
Splendid, a star!”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era
The two Poets of Croisic.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Over all the sky—the sky! far, far out of reach, studded with the eternal stars.”
— Walt Whitman, book Drum-Taps
Drum-Taps. Bivouac on a Mountain-side
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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