What is the song the stars sing?
\n(And a million songs are as song of one)
\nThis is the song the stars sing:
\n(Sweeter song\u2019s none)<\/p>\n
One to set, and many to sing,
\n(And a million songs are as song of one)
\nOne to stand, and many to cling,
\nThe many things, and the one Thing,
\nThe one that runs not, the many that run.<\/p>\n
The ever new weaveth the ever old,
\n(And a million songs are as song of one)
\nEver telling the never told;
\nThe silver saith, and the said is gold,
\nAnd done ever the never done.<\/p>\n
The chase that\u2019s chased is the Lord o\u2019 the chase,
\n(And a million songs are as song of one)
\nAnd the pursued cries on the race;
\nAnd the hounds in leash are the hounds that run.<\/p>\n
Hidden stars by the shown stars\u2019 sheen:
\n(And a million suns are but as one)
\nColours unseen by the colours seen,
\nAnd sounds unheard heard sounds between,
\nAnd a night is in the light of the sun.<\/p>\n
An ambuscade of lights in night,
\n(And a million secrets are but as one)
\nAnd anight is dark in the sun\u2019s light,
\nAnd a world in the world man looks upon.<\/p>\n
Hidden stars by the shown stars\u2019 wings,
\n(And a million cycles are but as one)
\nAnd a world with unapparent strings
\nKnits the stimulant world of things;
\nBehold, and vision thereof is none.<\/p>\n
The world above in the world below,
\n(And a million worlds are but as one)
\nAnd the One in all; as the sun\u2019s strength so
\nStrives in all strength, glows in all glow
\nOf the earth that wits not, and man thereon.<\/p>\n
Braced in its own fourfold embrace
\n(And a million strengths are as strength of one)
\nAnd round it all God\u2019s arms of grace,
\nThe world, so as the Vision says,
\nDoth with great lightning-tramples run.<\/p>\n
And thunder bruiteth into thunder,
\n(And a million sounds are as sound of one)
\nFrom stellate peak to peak is tossed a voice of wonder,
\nAnd the height stoops down to the depths thereunder,
\nAnd sun leans forth to his brother-sun.<\/p>\n
And the more ample years unfold
\n(With a million songs as song of one)
\nA little new of the ever old,
\nA little told of the never told,
\nAdded act of the never done.<\/p>\n
Loud the descant, and low the theme,
\n(A million songs are as song of one)
\nAnd the dream of the world is dream in dream,
\nBut the one Is is, or nought could seem;
\nAnd the song runs round to the song begun.<\/p>\n
This is the song the stars sing,
\n(Ton\u00e8d all in time)
\nTintinnabulous, tuned to ring
\nA multitudinous-single thing
\n(Rung all in rhyme).<\/p>\n
\u2013 Francis Thompson<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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