Lexington union. (Lexington, Miss.) 1838-18??, 1840-12-12
From the Lady's Book, for December
THE STARS.
By MISS LYDIA II. HAsTi

Is the moonlight gifted with la'ry
power? DO the stars fling over US spei,i
which our hearts acknowledge, inouen
they comprehend it not? Hath the nea''
an inner realm finer, more etherlal PhiioS
ophv, of which they are the arblters, ana
which our grosser senses may not Investi-
gate?-Or why is il that Hope, Love- roe
sy. Memory all the divinitics OF our ma
ture. ever repIenish their consecrated cha
Ices at astral founts, and keep. their ordi'
nances, and hold their festivals, IN moon
light temples and payiions! II is beneath
the stars that Hope creates her larry
world, as lovely and as intactibIe as their
own rays, and sits listening to the syren
melodies that float from the harps OF the
angels with which she has peopled ~ II
is beneath them that Love bends at inc
shrine of its canonized, counting the pearls
of its beautiful rosary--or weeping over
Them ia crushed and soiIed beneath its Ju-
gernalhian car! When like silver walls,
Idistilling beauty, they ehed their light over
the silent stream and shadowy forest
when the many of those, who, IN the vast
chain of the created, may alone claim al
liance TO the Creator, have folded the man.
, tie of (orcetlulness about them, burylng
themselves in "dumb oblivion"-lhey ut
ter in "still small voice" the "open ses-
: anne" to the realms Of Poesy, and she
lraws from the haunted wells of her trea-
.ury, the gems at whose heart burneth the
ight of another and holier sphere! And
: is beneath their light that the whites
ROBBED nhantoms Of other years arise and
= walk the waters of the soul! that the rich
Tissue which our youth hath woven OF sun.
4 nv dreams, and rose-tnged images, starts
forth 10 palpabe, hut sottened relief, lar ~
Il the perspective Of the sombre web OF lie
Q We meet the gentle eye, over which the
a lust was long since shed the lute-likt
a zones of the lips where pale sileace long
r, since set his seal, float again upon the ear
e and we weep With vain warnings for the
e chrysial water and golden clusters will
1t which the Tantalus of memory sits mock
:. ing us!
N And the stars have their o,en memories
'e Az! memories burning deep with fire from
r, off the altar Of the Most High! From tina
= hour, when at the great command. ole
OF there be light" kindling with the magnlfi
~ cence of Omnipo,ent thought, they ros
p on the purple midnight Of Time, nroun
4af1 love- WIKI s b haff s e%shff
Is rays lighting the loneliness Of worl
"a fresh from the hand of Jehovah, the
'g broke the deep stiffness with the first che
le rus of praise. "snging together" in cor
81 cert with call the sous OF God, "shoutin
OF for iaym Awe.struck before them, me
'n bowed dowa ia alteration, due only to Hin
al of whose glory even they were but tn
DO shadows, "worshippug all the hosts
!" Heavenn- the poor Chaldean dream
IL ed from their mystic revealings, to ORA
or' the golden thread by which 10 unwind 1t
". mazes Of human destiny.
Docs the inspired desire 10 enforce Il
iIlnmitablo might of Jehovah, he bids "
no aLift your eyes on high and behold wi
nv hath created these things, that brlnge
iie out their hosts by number" lie poin
se rs 10 the power which "scaIeM up I
s,ars''-"which alone spreadeth out I
AZ heayens,n which maketh Arcturus, Orc
YES and Pleiades. Did he wish to teach NJ
SOU humiTity-a sense of his own insig
Wy tconce? he asks @Canst thou bind I
ION sweet influences pIeiades, or loose I
Lux bands Of Oriona Canst thou bring MI
'hp zaroth in his season? Or canst thou GU
'p H Arctnrus with his sons2" and exclair
'u n "When consider the heavens, the W.
~, of nv fingers; the moon and the ST
W which thou hast ordained; what is II
'"s' tina, thou art mindful Of him? or the son
sN'' man that thou visiiest him?"-And az
,e"' as if with an overwhelming sense of
nop feebleness of mortal tongues to proclt
!" his goodness and omnipotence, he
NJ" claims, "Praise ycthe Lord from the b
Nus yens: praise him in the heights. Pr,
' ~. him all ye stars Of light"
who The starlight mingled with the 81
81, which the angel bore from the shrine, W
;I;,y to the lonely watchers on Judah's bill
ira appeared singing, "Peace on earth," br
The ing 'good tidings of great joy to all
"A If pie. "--It was star--ihe annoinied {
here sengcr of heaven, which moving in 81
,ible beauty through the blue depths OF
og,. easl"-led the "wise men" Onward
Aod its silvery ray fell, pointing like the "
q d. Of the Almighty. 10 the lowly, but halle
verv spot, where he lay, whose infant hand
ally, destined - ro'r 1"cN NC s'one %
ssslv tomb, and send a blessed ray far thrc
,wed the dark valley, over the Jordan Of dc
; far ill mortal eye might also catch the br
its Of ness Oeamipg founu tne '1h",or'a' sho'
haust But there is glory from the heavens depart